Image of a crowd of men and women, presumably Mormons in a wagon train, standing in a clearing in a forest with an older woman and girl in tattered clothes embracing at center, with a basket, a campfire with a pot cooking above, covered wagons, horses, and trunks, nearby, and the mountains and trees visible in the distance; fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion. Date supplied by cataloger based on general history of play; "100 Wives" was first performed in 1880. "Lith. by the J.M.W. Jones S.&P. Co. Chicago"--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 61.12 x 76.2 cm (24 1/16 x 30 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Frontier and pioneer life--Pictorial works Landscapes--Pictorial works Melodramas Mormons--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Wilderness areas--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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