Image of an advertisement for Oliver Doud Byron starring in Across the Continent; a man with a mustache wearing tall boots stands at a telegraph machine positioned atop a barrel; he operates the telegraph with one hand and shades his eyes with the other as he keeps a lookout. Date supplied by cataloger based on performer history; Oliver Doud Byron performed Across the Continent on Broadway in 1871. "The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cincinnati, O."--text, bottom right margin. "The Great Telegraphing Scene"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.48 x 25.08 cm (19 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Advertising--Theater Men--Pictorial works Performances--Pictorial works Telegraph--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Performing Arts: Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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