Image of a city street corner with a boy, character Henry Peck, squirting water from a flower on his jacket into the face of character grocer Max Schultz, while a girl and an Irish police officer look on and laugh; the poster advertises the comedy "Peck's Bad Boy" based on the stories by George W. Peck. Probable printer supplied by cataloger based on similar item in collection (priJLC_ENT_000422); probable date approximated by cataloger based on newspaper advertisement for show with similar caption "Schultz wants a smell, but gets a bath instead at the new auditorium ..." ("Village News," The Castilian, 20 September 1912, page [3]) "Schultz Wants a Smell but Gets a Bath Instead"--text, caption, bottom margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 66.68 x 51.44 cm (26 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Comedies Irish Americans--Caricatures and cartoons Police--1880-1890--Pictorial works Practical jokes--Pictorial works Theatrical productions 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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