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Postcard

Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1905
Description: Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara...
Postcard

Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1907
Description: An embossed color postcard with two head and shoulders portraits of Billie Burke produced by the Philco Publishing Company of London, England. Caption read...
Postcard

Billie Burke Seated in a Chair

Date: 1906
Description: Johnston & Hoffmann publicity photograph of Billie Burke in a lacy dress with her hair piled on top of her head. Reproduced as a postcard by J. Beagles & C...
Postcard

Portrait of a young Billie Burke

Date: 1903
Description: Head and shoulders publicity portrait of Billie Burke resting her cheek on her hand. She wears long white gloves and a large lacy white hat. Published as a...
Photograph

Lina Cavalieri

Date: 1901
Description: The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders.
Photograph

Mazie Trumbull and Frances Trumbull, vaudeville performers.

Date: 1906
Description: Mazie Trumbull, famous as a cross-dresser and dancer, and her sister Frances, side by side in a White Studio photograph.
Photograph

Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
Description: Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu...
Photograph

Lillie Langtry

Date: 1905
Description: Half-length publicity portrait of Lillie Langtry wearing a dress decorated with a large bat at the neckline.
Photograph

Dorothy Jardon in "The Merry-Go-Round"

Date: 1908
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl...
Poster

Poster for "Rip Van Winkle"

Date: 1905
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ...
Poster

Poster for "Child Slaves of New York"

Date: 1903
Description: Color lithograph. The upper caption reads "Child Slaves of New York." The image shows a stereotypical Middle Eastern man restraining a white male in unifor...
Poster

Poster for "The Bachelor's Baby"

Date: 1909
Description: Color lithograph. Across the top the caption reads "The Colonial Theatre Company Presents" and below that in much larger letters is "Etienne Girardot" foll...
Poster

Poster for "The Tourists"

Date: 1906
Description: Color Lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "...
Poster

Poster for "The Tourists"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "...
Poster

Poster for "Mr. Blarney from Ireland"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top is the caption "Chas. E. Blaney presents," flanked by smaller banners left and right. The left banner read...
Poster

Poster for "Happy Henry"

Date: 1907
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. In one large banner set in a black field at top reads "A musical comedy farce Happy Henry *12* Big Song Hits *12*." The i...
Poster

Poster for "Sheriff of Angel Gulch"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster. Caption across top reads: "Chas. E. Blaney presents Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West in his new play Sheriff of Angel Gulch." ...
Poster

Poster for "Sheriff of Angel Gulch"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster. The top caption reads: "Chas. E. Blaney presents Young Buffalo, King of the Wild West in his new play," and beneath this in larger...
Poster

Poster for "The Factory Girl"

Date: 1903
Description: Color lithograph poster. "The Factory Girl" in red banner across top. “A Great Labor Play” under title top right. Scene depicting a well-dressed woman whee...
Poster

Poster for Guy Bates Post in "The Bridge"

Date: 1909
Description: Color lithograph poster featuring a full-length portrait of the actor Guy Bates Post in outdoor gear. The bottom caption reads "Guy Bates Post in 'The Brid...

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