Image of a full-length portrait of actor Dollie Nobles standing in a formal dress with ruffled skirt and ribbons and holding a fan on a terrace next to potted flowers and plants; with date information for a play, presumably the melodrama "The Phoenix," beginning March 17, [1884], at the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, New York. Probable date based on month and day in item text; Dollie Nobles and her husband Milton Nobles performed "The Phoenix" at the Grand Opera House on March 17, 1884 (Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, Vol. XII, page 367). "Great Western Pr. Eng. & Lith. Co. Saint Louis"--text, bottom margin. "Grand Opera House / One Week Only, Commencing / Monday, / March 17"--text, bottom margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.76 x 53.34 cm (28 1/4 x 21 in.)
Nobles, Dollie--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actresses--Pictorial works Women's clothing--Pictorial works Grand Opera House Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Portrait prints. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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
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