Image of an Arab man, wearing a robe with a knife in his belt, grabbing a detective by the neck and choking him at the direction of an elderly man in a similar costume and headdress who stands behind a table labeled "Kaldah the mystic" with a star and crescent symbol, while a worried young woman in a pink dress, hat, and fur stole looks on; the poster advertises the melodrama "Child Slaves of New York" written by Charles E. Blaney and Howard Hall. "Copyright 1903 by / The / Strobridge / Litho Co. / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right. "'He Is the detective;- you know what to do!'"--text, caption, bottom centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.84 x 50.8 cm (30 1/4 x 20 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Arabs--Pictorial works Crime--Pictorial works Detectives--Pictorial works Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Melodramas Theatrical productions Violence--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (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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