Image of a city street with two children stealing fruit from a sleeping woman's sidewalk stand, with the boy, character Henry Peck, putting bananas and apples in a basket while a girl places a sign "Take all you want" on the stand, and a police officer sleeps in the alley behind; both the stand owner and police officer have red noses and are presumably Irish; the poster advertises the comedy "Peck's Bad Boy" based on the stories by George W. Peck. Probable date approximated by cataloger. "Enterprise Litho Co."--text, bottom right margin. "The Bad Boy and His Girl Start in Business."--text, bottom margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 68.9 x 52.39 cm (27 1/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Children--Pictorial works Comedies Irish Americans--Caricatures and cartoons Police--Pictorial works Practical jokes--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Thieves--Pictorial works Shopping--Pictorial works 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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