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The Soudan
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Image of a battle scene with Sudanese soldiers wearing turbans on horseback with spears and swords fighting Arab soldiers on foot with rifles; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."
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The Soudan
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Image of British cavalry in red military jackets and helmets charging on horseback with swords in the air; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."
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The Soudan
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Image of an Arab soldier on a rearing horse riding through the desert with an army of soldiers in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."
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Wm. Stafford : in the marble heart
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Image of a marble sculptor's workspace in Ancient Greece with the sculptor, presumably depicting actor William Stafford, and a young woman with a bare breast and handcuffs wearing short togas and Roman sandals, being surrounded by men and soldiers with helmets and spears before statues of three women that are partially hidden by ropes and curtains and illuminated by a man holding a lamp; the poster advertises the romantic melodrama "The Marble Heart" by Charles Selby.
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Kar-mi : swallows a loaded gun barrel : and shoots a cracker from a man's head
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Image of an outdoor stage with the sword-swallowing performer Kar-Mi (Joseph Hallworth who also went by the stage name Victorina) in a Middle Eastern or Hindu ethnic costume kneeling and shooting a bullet from a gun in his mouth to break a cracker from the top of a nearly naked blindfolded man's head, with a bare-breasted woman and smoke-filled censer at the end of the stage, with a crowded audience comprised of bare-chested men wearing white turbans looking on, and a fortified, walled desert city in the background and palm trees at left.
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Weccacoe Fire Compy. Instituted 1800, Incorporated 1833
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Image of an elevation view of the side of a double-deck manual fire engine with with an ornately decorated center condenser case containing an image of a bare-chested mermaid and man and the label "Weccacoe."; a firefighter wearing a top hat labeled Wecca[coe] 1800" and a cape with the letters "F" and "A" stands at the front of the wagon; with a small image in bottom center margin of a Roman soldier dressed in a military costume with a bow and arrows.
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