Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from." Probable date based on theater history and 1878 copyright date of similar item in the collection (see priJLC 000483); Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre opened in October 1879. "Strobridge & Co. Lith. Cincinnati."--text, bottom right. "J.H. Haverly, / Proprietor."--text, upper left. "Wm. Foote, / Manager."--text, upper right. "Haverly's Theatre, / Gor. Monroe & Dearborn Streets, / Chicago."--text, bottom left. "Haverly's Theatre, / Gor. 14th Street & 6th Avenue, / New York."--text, bottom right.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.2 x 101.92 cm (30 x 40 1/8 in.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Haverly's United American-European Mastodon Minstrels Commercial streets--Pictorial works Local transit--Pictorial works Minstrel shows Railroad stations--Pictorial works Railroads--Pictorial works Theaters--Pictorial works Haverly's Minstrels Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Place
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) Chicago (Ill.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Minstrel The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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