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Poster for "A Black Sheep"



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Title: Poster for "A Black Sheep"
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top caption "Hoyt's 'A Black Sheep'/Hoyt & McKee, Proprietors." Image shows women trying to keep Buffalo Bill-type cowboy from taking a trunk as men watch. Bottom caption reads “Sheriff, You Let My Trunk Alone!"
Image ID: 89918
Creation
Date: 		1894 ca.
Creator
Name: 		Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		Charles Hale Hoyt (1859-1900) wrote over twenty farces during his short career, including his hits "A Trip to Chinatown" and "A Milk-White Flag." He often featured plots involving baseball and was the first to cast a real ballplayer (Mike "King" Kelly of the Boston Beaneaters) in a play. "Black Sheep," though it contained a good cast, had only a mediocre run but was strung together with "A Contented Woman" and "A Day and a Night in New York" to put Hoyt on the map of popular theatre. After the death of his second wife, Hoyt was confined to an insane asylum for a short time before dying soon after.
Subjects: Theaters
Musical revue
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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