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Geo. H. Adams’ new Humpty Dumpty : traveling with his own palace and baggage coaches. Season [18]81-82
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Image of three panels showing performances of a whiteface clown and an old man in short pants; the four members of the acrobatic troupe the Martinetti Family in a balancing act with one man standing on two upside down chairs while he holds up two female performers and another man stands on his head; and six vignettes of the Bernardo's jugglers doing juggling acts with knives, balancing tops, and fire sticks, including one before an Egyptian pyramid; the poster advertises the Humpty Dumpty Troupe of George Adams.
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Image of a royal court of whiteface clowns with a clown king on a throne labeled "The Master Mime" crowning the kneeling clown Alfred Miaco with a laurel wreath, with a line of clowns, a court jester, two female performers, statues on the wall labeled Denier, Fox, and Grimaldi, and a curtain labeled "Afe Llo Wofi Nfi Ni Tej Est"; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of pantomime troupe manager Tony Denier in formal dress at top left in a laurel leaf frame; the poster advertises Denier's Humpty Dumpty Company.
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Image of a central scene of caricatures of two male and one female performers on a miniature stage consisting of a blond boy dancing in a sailors suit, presumably Tony Denier, a blond woman dancing in a servant's outfit, presumably Amanda Tissot, and a man with a cane and top hat, presumably Jules Tissot; with head-and-shoulder portrait vignettes presumably of the Tissots and Denier at top; date sheet for a February 22, [1882], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises Tony Denier's Humpty Dumpty Pantomime Troupe, with the text for "Mons. and Mlle. Tissot, the Living Automatons" covered by a sheet advertising the clown Alfred Miaco.
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