Image of a young woman, presumably actress Bella Vivian, wearing a short skirt, apron, corset, red tights, and had standing in a country field by a fence with a farmhouse and hills in the distance; head-and-shoulders portrait of Vivian in a frame decorated with French and American flags inset at top left; with a date sheet for an August 25, [1886], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom of poster; the poster advertises the comedy "Our Jonathan." Date supplied by cataloger based on day and month in date sheet and play history; the play was first performed in 1885 and a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper advertised the play at the Fulton Opera House on August 25, 1886 (Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 24 August 1886, page 4). "Opera House / 1 Night Only / August 25 / Grand Parade at 11.45 A.M."--text of date sheet pasted at bottom of poster.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 84.77 x 56.2 cm (33 3/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
Vivian, Bella--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actresses--Pictorial works Comedies Country life--Pictorial works Farms--Pictorial works Theatrical productions 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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