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Poster for "Darkest Russia"

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph poster depicting a scene from the play "Darkest Russia" showing two bound captives at the feet of Imperial soldiers reacting to the arriva...
Poster

Poster for "Darkest Russia"

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph poster showing a scene set at a musical recital in Imperial Russia. Top left inset with Imperial Russian crest and "by H. Grattan Donnelly...
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Poster for "The Ensign"

Date: 1892
Description: Color lithograph poster depicting a confrontation between U.S. Navy sailors who are defending the honor of the American flag and British soldiers. “Written...
Poster

Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels."

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph poster whose top caption reads "Oscar F. Hodge presents" followed in larger type by "Neil O'Brien and His Great American Minstrels." Below...
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Poster for "Neil O'Brien Great American Super-Minstrels"

Date: 1895
Description: This color lithograph poster shows a man in blackface with a giant rooster standing behind him looking over his shoulder. In the lower left corner, the act...
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Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels"

Date: 1895
Description: This color lithograph poster carries the title "Oscar F. Hodge presents Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels" below which is a portrait bust of a ...
Poster

Poster for "On Broadway"

Date: 1896
Description: Black and white lithograph poster. Caption at top reads “Maggie Cline" with image of Cline at a Broadway intersection crossing a trolley track while a poli...
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Poster for "The War of Wealth"

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph poster for "The War of Wealth." In the picture, a crowd of adults is surrounding a child, one man reaching to grab the girl's hand. At the...
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Poster for "A Black Sheep"

Date: 1894
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 tak...
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Poster for "The Cherry Pickers"

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph poster. An Afgan prisoner with chains on his wrists fires a cannon past a man and a woman prisoner in it while a mob gathers outside the p...
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Poster for "A Social Session"

Date: 1890
Description: Color lithograph poster. Top caption reads "Social Session" with an insert to the right containing an image of "D. J. Sprague, Manager." The image shows me...
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Poster for "Blue Jeans"

Date: 1890
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top, the main banner reads "Blue Jeans" with insert at left "Will Never Wear Out" and another at right "By Joseph Arthur/The Au...
Poster

Poster for "A Trip to Chinatown"

Date: 1891
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top “Hoyt’s "A Trip to Chinatown" with insert at center "From Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre New York" and another insert at rig...
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Poster for "A Hole in the Ground"

Date: 1887
Description: Color lithograph poster. A man stands at a train station, his luggage flying out from the baggage room. The caption reads "The Junction-the Train Four Hour...
Poster

Poster for "A Midnight Bell"

Date: 1889
Description: Color lithograph poster. The banner at top reads "Hoyt's A Midnight Bell," below which is the tag "Laughter Every Minute." The image shows an white-haired ...
Poster

Poster for "Uncle Josh Spruceby"

Date: 1890
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...
Photograph

Film Still from "The Kiss"

Date: 1896
Description: A frame enlargement from Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Rice reprising the controversial final scene of the pl...
Photograph

"Fred Ott's Sneeze"

Date: 1894
Description: Printing-out-paper contact print of 45 frames of the 5 second film known as "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" or simply "Fred Ott's Sneeze." The fil...
Photograph

John Gilbert as a Baby with His Mother

Date: 1898
Description: Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ...
Photograph

Raymond Hitchcock and Sisters

Date: 09 1879
Description: Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film...

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