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[The masquerade]

Description: Image of two women in profile wearing masks and brimmed hates; elaborate decorative border with female figures playing musical instruments.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895
Call number: priJLC_ART_003045
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Mr. & Mrs. Wm. J. Florence

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Image of head-and-shoulders portraits of American actors William Florence (also known as Billy Florence), wearing a horseshoe tie pin, and his wife, Mrs. William J. Florence (Malvina Pray Florence), in oval frames surrounded by a floral border with cherubs, comedy-tragedy masks, musical instruments including a harp, a book with quill and ink well, binoculars, and a theater program.

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Hagen Bros. 3-Ring-3 Circus

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Image of four performing monkeys dressed in costumes, with one wearing a fez, two playing musical instruments, and one balancing on a tightrope.

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The world famed M’me Rentz’s celebrated minstrels

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Image of a group portrait of a female musical group dressed in formal gowns and seated in a row under a loggia with a lake and trees in the background, with some playing musical instruments including violins, a flute, horn, harp, and cello and accompanied by one male member seated in the center and two male members in blackface at each end also playing instruments; thirteen vignettes with head-and-shoulder portraits of the female performers in formal dress above the central image.

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[Musicians playing stringed instruments]

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Image of sixteen blackface minstrel musicians wearing top hats affixed with spoons and playing stringed musical instruments, including guitars, lutes, banjos, and cellos, on a platform stage.

priJLC_ENT_000489

Tom Mix Circus : tomfoolery supreme

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Image of two whiteface clowns holding a bottle and glass of castor oil in the foreground, and clowns playing musical instruments and wearing costumes in the background; small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of circus founder Tom Mix at top left.

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Royce and Lansing Musical Comedy Co. : in a basket of chips

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Image of five character vignettes consisting of two male and two female musicians, in Spanish costumes, standing in a row playing mandolins; head-and-shoulder portraits of a whiteface clown and a hobo captioned "The Cherubs," a portrait of a man with a cane and long mustache and a woman wearing a bonnet captioned "Symantha and Algernon"; an old man in an historical costume patting a boy with an ax on the head captioned "The Little Hatchet"; and a pirate with a knife moving towards a girl in a nightgown with her arms raised captioned "The Amateur Villain and Maiden"; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Ray L. Royce, at upper right, and Web Lansing, at lower left, and a decorative border; the poster advertises the musical-comedy show "Basket of Chips" performed by Royce and Lansing's company.

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[The masquerade]

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