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Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor
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Madison Square Theatre Company. : The professor
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Image of a full-length portrait of the character "The Professor" wearing a suit and a monocle and standing with one hand held out and holding his hat in the other; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William H. Gillette.
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The Madison Square Theatre Company : Hazel Kirke
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Image of six vignettes of theatrical scenes and characters consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, captioned "Hazel," at top left; a parlor scene with an older man sleepwalking past a kneeling young woman captioned, "Seen & Unseen," at center left; a man with his arms folded, captioned "Squire Rodney," at lower left; a couple standing and embracing with the man smoking two cigarettes, captioned "May all our sorrows end like this 'in smoke,'" at lower left; a young man sitting and playing a penny whistle, captioned "Met," at bottom left; and a young woman wearing an apron and standing with a young man, with a basket of laundry and drying linens on racks before a fireplace, captioned "Dolly's Surprise," at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy drama "Hazel Kirke" by Steele Mackaye.
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Madison Square Theatre : Esmeralda
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera contains more than 2,600 printed items primarily advertising theatrical and musical entertainment and related performers in the United States from 1839 to the 1940s, with the majority of items dating from the 1870s to the 1890s. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations pertaining to a wide variety of performance genres that have been grouped broadly as music and theater (including theater, music, dance, burlesque, comedy, pantomime, and variety); minstrel (including minstrel shows, blackface entertainers, and female minstrels); and magic and miscellaneous (including magicians, motion pictures, and Wild West shows). The collection has 442 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic theatrical and minstrel posters that were intended to advertise specific shows or performers. Small-size items in the collection number approximately 2,130 and are comprised mainly of promotional ephemera and business documents such as trade cards, programs and playbills, souvenir booklets, die-cut cards, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. The collection provides a resource for studying the history of the American theater and the evolution of advertising strategies for the performing arts in the United States in the late 19th century. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints.
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Geo. W. Ripley’s big mammoth Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co
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Image of a scene in the kitchen of a Quaker home with a couple holding a gun belt out towards a visitor, while a woman cooks over a stove, two women bake pies, a man shaves over a wash basin, and a woman sits next to a child and dog; the poster advertises the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tent show managed by George W. Ripley and based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stow.
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Col. Sinn's New Park Theatre
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Image of a view of the three-story facade of the New Park Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, managed by Colonel William E. Sinn, with carriages, a dog, and people on horseback on the street out front, two posters visible including one with the legible words "Happy Man," "Edward," and "Curry," and signs for the theatre including the date "1873."
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Union Square Theatre
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Printer: Seer's Engraving and Printing Establishment With woodcut image of a scene in a ballroom with a woman fainting from the play "Led Astray" from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
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