Image of a family in a parlor with two old men playing with a baby before a fire in a fireplace while women set the dining room table for dinner, with a piano, grandfather clock, and hanging framed pictures on the wall in the background; fragment of a date sheet with show information for an October 27, [1882], performance at the Opera House, presumably in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; the poster advertises the domestic melodrama "Hearts of Oak" written by James A. Herne and David Belasco. Probable date based on month and day on date sheet and corresponding advertisement: "Opera House, Friday, October 27, 1882. In the complete production of the beautiful, pure and interesting play. Hearts of Oak, By an unusually good company, headed by Mr. James A. Herne. ("Entertainments," Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 27 October 1882, page 3) "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. Cleveland. O."--text, bottom right margin. "Opera House. / One Night Only, / Friday October 27 / Herne's Hearts of Oak"--text, date sheet attached to bottom of image. "''The Baby' (Herne's Hearts of Oak.)"--text, image caption, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.66 x 71.6 cm (21 1/8 x 28 3/16 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Babies--Pictorial works Dining rooms--Pictorial works Families--Pictorial works Melodramas Theatrical productions Fulton Opera House Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place
Lancaster (Pa.)
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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