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Hans and Nix everything new but the title : fun, music, and song : the positive limit in polite comedy.

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Caption: The dancing chicks.

Created by the Enquirer Job Printing Co., Cin., O.

Management of Walters and Mathews.

Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956.

Forms part of: McManus-Young collection of pictorial material relating to magic.

Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

American Theatrical Posters: Musicals, Dance, Extravaganza

American Comedy Theatrical Posters

The collection includes posters advertising individual plays and operettas, burlesque, vaudeville, and specialty acts, dance companies, extravaganzas produced by the Kiralfy Brothers, portraits of entertainers, and stock posters. Featured performers include Julia Arthur, De Wolfe Hopper, Joseph Hart Vaudeville Co., Thomas W. Keene, Andrew Mack, Robert B. Mantell, Mathews & Bulger, Lewis Morrison, Phil Sheridan's New City Sports Co., Royal Lilliputians, and Jennie Yeamans. Directors, managers, and producers include Edward J. Abraham, Blaney, and Vance, William A. Brady, Sidney R. Ellis, W.J. Fielding, Charles Frohman, Hoyt & McKee, the Kiralfy Brothers, Jacob Litt, Rice & Burton, Rich & Harris, A.Q. Scammon, Sam S. Schubert, Thall & Kennedy, Fred E. Wright, Charles H. Yale, and others. Playwrights include David Belasco, George H. Broadhurst, Bartley Campbell, Charles Turner Dazey, Gilbert & Sullivan, William Gillette, Seymour Hicks, David Higgins, Bronson Howard, Cecil Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Sutton Vane, and others. Plays include such popular titles as Arizona, At Piney Ridge, By the sad sea waves, Devil's auction, Evangeline, Faust, Female drummer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The hidden hand, The last of the Rohans, Ole Olson, The Queen of Chinatown, Shenandoah, Siberia, The sporting life, Uncle Tom's cabin, Venice, The war of wealth, Way down East, Yon Yonson, and others. Images depicted include scenes from plays, portraits of performers, and performers performing. Featured entertainers are not always depicted in the image. Some posters are mainly textual with peripheral images.

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burlesque shows chorus girls lithographs color theatrical posters american hans nix title fun music song limit comedy poster art posters prints 19th century posters posters performing arts posters american variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920 enquirer job printing co walters and mathews ultra high resolution high resolution performing arts posters vintage advertisement vintage illustration artwork advertisements vaudeville shows performing arts free art posters library of congress vintage ads
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01/01/1899
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Enquirer Job Printing Co.
Walters and Mathews.
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Theatrical Posters: Musicals

American Theatrical Posters: Musicals, Dance, Extravaganza

Theatrical Posters: Comedy

American Comedy Theatrical Posters

Performing Arts Posters

Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
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burlesque shows chorus girls lithographs color theatrical posters american hans nix title fun music song limit comedy poster art posters prints 19th century posters posters performing arts posters american variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920 enquirer job printing co walters and mathews ultra high resolution high resolution performing arts posters vintage advertisement vintage illustration artwork advertisements vaudeville shows performing arts free art posters library of congress vintage ads