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Poster for "Uncle Josh Spruceby"



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Title: Poster for "Uncle Josh Spruceby"
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a man wounded on the floor of the sawmill and a damsel in distress tied to a log enroute to a whirling blade while a black-clad moustached man looks on with pistol smoking at his side. At the bottom of the poster is the caption "The Exciting Saw-Mill Scene."
Image ID: 89939
Creation
Date: 		1890 ca.
Creator
Name: 		National Printing and Engraving Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		This "rube show" starred Merle Evans as the rural philosopher Uncle Josh, and seems not to have been performed on Broadway. One newspaper article opined that, by 1905, American "was overrun with rube shows."
Subjects: Theaters
Sawmills
Posters
Moustache
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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