Image of a classroom scene with a young woman holding a young man by his ear in the center of a schoolroom before an older man, with a female teacher sitting at a desk, other students, and a seated couple looking on; the poster advertises the comic melodrama "A Midnight Bell" by Charles H. Hoyt. Probable date based on date supplied for copy held in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress; the play was first performed in 1888. "Visiting the School."--text, bottom centered. "The / Enquirer / Job Printing Co. / Cin. O."--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 77.15 x 108.59 cm (30 3/8 x 42 3/4 in.)
Children--Pictorial works Classrooms--Pictorial works Comedies Melodramas Students--Pictorial works Theatrical productions 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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