Image of an outdoor scene with a group of young women from Baghdad, Iraq, dressed in Middle Eastern costumes with flowing skirts, jewelry, gold headdresses, and scarves, with female performers playing musical instruments including a drum and a lute, and the minarets of a city visible in the distance; the poster advertises the "Bagdad" musical carnival performed by the New Parker Amusement Company owned by Harry Raver and J. A. Darnaby. Probable date based on 1905 newspaper advertisement for the Bagdad carnival managed by "Messrs. Darnaby and Raver, with their New Parker Amusement company" (“Carnival Crowds Grow Larger as Its Fame Extends,” Muscatine Journal, 17 August 1905, page 7). "Goes Lithographic Co. Chicago"--text, bottom left margin. "C.W. Parker / Founder"--text, top left border "Raver / and / Darnaby / Owners"--text, top right border.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 33.5 x 27.46 cm (13 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Carnivals--United States Curiosities and wonders--Pictorial works Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Musical entertainments Singers--Pictorial works Theatrical productions New Parker Amusement Company Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Small Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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