Image of a fist fight between two men, with two women and another man watching, taking place at night in Madison Square Park in New York City under electric arc lights, with trees, the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, the obelisk Worth Monument, buildings including the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the Erie Railway ticket office with signs including one for the "Payonia Ferry / Jersey City", and electricity poles in the background; the scene is captioned "Dick-'Cut in the face. He hadn't the cheek to stand it.'"; with a date sheet for a November 10, [1882], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "Cheek" written by Frederick Mardsen and starring the comedian Roland Reed. Date supplied by cataloger based on day and month on date sheet; a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper advertised the play at the Fulton Opera House on November 10, 1882 (Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 9 November 1882, page 3). "The Courier Lith. Co. Buffalo, N.Y."--text, bottom left of image. "Opera House / One Night. No More, / Friday, Nov. 10"--text, date sheet pasted at bottom of poster.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 46.99 x 60.96 cm (18 1/2 x 24 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Arguments--Pictorial works Comedies Electric lighting--Pictorial works Madison Square Park (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works Melodramas Parks--Pictorial works Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)--Pictorial works Statues--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Violence--Pictorial works Fulton Opera House Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
Lancaster (Pa.)
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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