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Title
Baylies & Kennedy's : "bright lights."
Creator
Courier Company, printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of seventeen head-and-shoulder portraits of performers in Baylies & Kennedy's "Bright Lights" variety show consisting of Madge Aiston; Charles Barton; William T. Bryant; William Cronin; Frank Jones; the mesmerists the Kennedy Brothers, J. E. Kennedy and T.A. Kennedy; C.H. McDonald; Harry Melville; William J. Mills; Alice Montague; Pat Reilly; George W. Rice; Lizzie Richmond; J.P. Sullivan; Mabel Vaughn; and manager Josiah Baylies; with a fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom.
Date supplied by cataloger based on year the show was first produced. "The Courier Lith Co. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom right. "Lizzie Richmond / J.P. Sullivan / Prof. T.A. Kennedy / Jo-Baylies, Manager / Prof. J.E. Kennedy / Wm. Cronin / Mabel Vaughn / Harry Melville / Pat Reilly / Geo.W. Rice / Madge Aiston / Chas. Barton / W.T. Bryant / Wm. J. Mills / C.H. McDonald / Alice Montague / Frank Jones"--text, captions below portraits.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.76 x 106.68 cm (28 1/4 x 42 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_002540
418319
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2667
Subject
Actors--Portraits
Actresses--Portraits
Theatrical productions
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Group portraits. (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

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