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100 Wives

Description
Image of a crowd of men and women, presumably Mormons in a wagon train, standing in a clearing in a forest with an older woman and girl in tattered clothes embracing at center, with a basket, a campfire with a pot cooking above, covered wagons, horses, and trunks, nearby, and the mountains and trees visible in the distance; fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.
Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
approximately 1880
Call number
priJLC_ENT_002532
Creator
Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people
Arnold, Vic. (approximately 1837-1914.)
Baker, Joseph E., (approximately 1820-)
Bencke, Herman. (1868-1903.)
Blue, Ed. (1853-1925.)
Bonar, Thomas. (1843-1895.)
Briggs, A. (-1926.)
Cadwell, William H. (1812-1895.)
Dreser, William, (1824-)
Dunshee, E. S. (active 1870-1880.)
Durkin, J. (1839-1890.)
Etherington, C. (1832-1910.)
Falk, B. J. (1848-1939.)
Frizzell, S. S. (1821-1896.)
Goodman, Arthur Jule, (1834-1904.)
Gurney, Jeremiah, (1836-1918.)
Haehnlen, Jacob, (1850-1901.)
Hallworth, Joseph B.
Hart, Chas.
Hyde, James G.
Lord, F.
Maerz, Alois J.
Magee, John L.
Morgan, Matthew Somerville,
Parsloe, Edmond.
Peel, J. W.
Rimanoczy, A.,
Rothengatter, Emil,
Sarony, Napoleon,
Thomas, Henry Atwell,
Willard, Archibald M.,
Windisch, A.
De La Harpe, Joseph,
Associated organizations
A. Hoen & Co.
A.S. Seer's Printing Establishment (New York, N.Y.)
Ackermann-Quigley Litho. Co.
Alfred Mudge and Son.
American Lithographic Co.
American Oleograph Co.
American Show Print (Firm)
Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
Boston Job Print.
Burk & McFetridge.
Calhoun Printing Company.
Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
Central Lith. & Eng. Co.
Chicago Bank Note Company.
Chicago Lithographing Co.
Clear & Co.
Courier Company.
Currier & Ives.
David Allen & Sons.
Donaldson Litho. Co.
Enquirer Job Printing Co.
Enquirer Litho Co.
Enterprise Litho Co.
Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co.
Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.
Francis & Valentine.
Goes Lithographic Co.
Graphic Company.
Great Western Pr. Eng. & Lith. Co.
Greve Show Print Co.
H. A. Thomas & Co.
H. A. Thomas & Sterling.
H.A. Thomas & Wylie.
H.C. Miner Litho. Co.
Hatch Lith. Co.
Henry Seibert & Bros.
J. Ottmann Lithographic Company.
J.M.W. Jones Stationery & Printing Co.
Kurz & Allison.
Ledger Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Liebler & Maass.
MacBrair Lith. Co.
Maerz Lith. Co.
Metropolitan Job Printing and Engraving Establishment.
Metropolitan Print.
N. Currier (Firm)
National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.)
New England Lithographic Co.
New York Popular Publishing Co.
Otis Lithograph Co.
Mesier's Lith.
Phoenix Litho. Co.
Quigley Litho. Co.
R. H. Eichner & Co. Lith.
Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
Riverside Printing Company.
Russell-Morgan Print.
Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.
Shearman & Hart.
Shober & Carqueville.
Springer Litho. Co.
Stafford & Co.
Standard Embossing Co.
Strobridge & Co. Lith.
Strobridge Lithographing Company.
T. Fitzwilliams and Co.
T. Sinclair & Son.
T. Sinclair's Lith.
U.S. Printing Co.
Thomas, Sterling & Wylie.
Una & Sturn.
W.J. Morgan & Co.
Walker Lith. Pub. Co.
Walle & Co.
Wm. Bengough & Co.
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