Image of an advertisement for the comic opera “Our College Boys; or, the medical students on a lark” from 1881; a professor and two women with bells of horseback lead a parade procession of medical students in robes and mortarboard caps carrying hand bells through the streets as well as banners that read, "The great English sensation," "The medical students," and "Our college boys" as throngs of people look on from the roadside and from buildings nearby. "Armstrong & Co. Lith. Boston [f.] W."--text, artist's signature on stone, bottom left of image. "Copyright 1881."--text, bottom center margin. "Worth going Fifty Miles to Witness!!!"--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 75.88 x 105.73 cm (29 7/8 x 41 5/8 in.)
Advertising--Performing arts Advertising--Theater Horses--Pictorial works Operas--Pictorial works Parades--Pictorial works Students--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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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