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Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

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Caption: Lord Woodstock H.M. 2d Life Guards.

Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York."

Jacob Litt, proprietor.

N.Y. no. 8188.

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

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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horses melodramas military personnel england lithographs color theatrical posters american old england cecil raleigh cecil raleigh seymour hicks seymour hicks english life poster art posters prints 19th century victorian era victorian england victorian britain history of england posters posters performing arts posters american variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920 jaco litt strobridge and co lith performing arts posters free art posters library of congress
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Date

01/01/1898
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Contributors

Strobridge & Co. Lith.
Hicks, Seymour, Sir, 1871-1949.
Litt, Jacob.
Raleigh, Cecil, 1856-1914.
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Performing Arts Posters

Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
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Location

Old England ,  17.99358, -77.46606
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Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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horses melodramas military personnel england lithographs color theatrical posters american old england cecil raleigh cecil raleigh seymour hicks seymour hicks english life poster art posters prints 19th century victorian era victorian england victorian britain history of england posters posters performing arts posters american variety stage vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920 jaco litt strobridge and co lith performing arts posters free art posters library of congress