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Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

Description: Image of an outdoor scene of a tropical oasis with caricatures of several poor and sick men and women arriving to partake of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water at a large wooden bar and soda fountain; specific caricatures include a costumed monkey waiter serving a man in a hammock, a wounded soldier on crutches, an elderly woman pushing an old man in a wheelbarrow, an African-American woman, a hobo holding a carpetbag, and a bartender wearing a red vest and boater hat; a beach shore is visible in the background with recuperated individuals, palm trees, shrubs, and a sailboat and a small canoe.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1882-1891
Call number: priJLC_BEV_003522
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

Visual Materials

Image of an outdoor scene of a tropical oasis with caricatures of several poor and sick men and women arriving to partake of Tuft's Arctic Soda Water at a large wooden bar and soda fountain; specific caricatures include a costumed monkey waiter serving a man in a hammock, a wounded soldier on crutches, an elderly woman pushing an old man in a wheelbarrow, an African-American woman, a hobo holding a carpetbag, and a bartender wearing a red vest and boater hat; a beach shore is visible in the background with recuperated individuals, palm trees, shrubs, and a sailboat and a small canoe.

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Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: cooling off the sun and its children

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Image of an outdoor scene of an anthropomorphized sun on a man's body in a suit holding a fan; a polar bear offers him a glass of soda water from a large wooden bar and soda fountain covered in icicles; caricatures of men and women in native garb dancing and celebrating in an African village also partake of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water.

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Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the only cool place in ---

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Image of a group of devils and demons in a fiery Hell gathered around a large wooden bar and soda fountain covered in icicles; the demons socialize while drinking glasses of Tufts' Arctic Soda Water.

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Image of a caricature of an African American man holding an umbrella while another man holding a carpetbag falls.

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Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

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Image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits and sitting with their musical instruments on a curtained stage; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Z. W. Sprague at top centered with four corner vignettes of minstrel performers consisting of a man gesturing at top left, a man dancing at top right, a man in a hobo costume holding an umbrella and jumping at bottom right, and two men in hobo costumes playing a banjo and tambourine at bottom left.

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Zozo the magic queen

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Image of a collage of images centered on a young man in an aristocratic historical costume with tights holding up a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, and surrounded by a villain holding a knife, young scantily clad women in classical dress holding the strings for puppet caricatures of five men including a female impersonator, an older man, a man holding an American flag, and an Irish man; with a large bat, full moon, gothic sculptures, and waves hitting a rocky shore; the poster advertises the dramatic spectacle "Zozo, the Magic Queen."

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Tufts' Arctic Soda Water: the fountain of youth

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