Image of a woman holding a pink mask away from a man in a formal sitting room with a lamp on a table in the background; the poster advertises the comedy "Mixed Pickles." Margins trimmed on local copy; probable date approximated by cataloger; the play premiered in 1885 and Polk's Mixed Pickles Company was advertised regularly in newspapers into 1889. "Central / Litho + Eng. Co. / N.Y. / No 267"--text, lower left. "'A Pink Mask, as I Live.'"--text, caption, lower right.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 65.09 x 48.9 cm (25 5/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Comedies Couples--Pictorial works Masks--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Polk’s Mixed Pickles Company 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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