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Title: Joe in Polk’s mixed pickles
Creator: Etherington, C. (Engraver), artist
Calhoun Printing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an oval head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian Joe Polk (also known as J. B. Polk) in an oval frame decorated with flowers; the poster advertises the comedy "Mixed Pickles."
Probable date based on year the show premiered. "Calhoun Print"--text, lower right of image. "C. Etherington. Del & Eng"--text, artist.'s signature in stone, bottom left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 woodcut : color printed ; overall 71.44 x 51.12 cm (28 1/8 x 20 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000398
386814
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2558
Language: English
Subject: Polk, Joseph B., 1840 or 1841-1902--Portraits
Actors--Portraits
Comedians--Portraits
Comedies
Theatrical productions
Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Music and Theater
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000424

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