Image of a stressed father and two smiling female nannies trying to hold seven squirming infants and children in their arms, while they pull each other's hair and cry; the poster advertises the comedy "The New Baby" adapted by English actor and stage manager Arthur Bourchier from the German play "Der Rabenvater" by H. Fischer and Joseph Jarn. "The U.S. Lithograph Co. / Russell-Morgan / Print / Cincinnati & New York / 4536 / Copyright 1900 by The U.S. Printing Co."--text, bottom right. "'Three of a kind beat two pair'"--text, caption, bottom centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 106.05 x 71.44 cm (41 3/4 x 28 1/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Comedies Fathers--Pictorial works Nannies--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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