Image of a country scene with a female photographer with camera equipment approaching an older man shaving outside the window of a cottage at the end of a winding rural country road, with a birdhouse, well, and beehive in the foreground; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of the actors William M. Cressy and Blanche Dayne in ovals at top corners; the poster advertises the vaudeville production "The Orpheum Show" directed by Martin Beck. "Copyright, 1900, by / The U.S. Printing Co. / Russell-Morgan Print / Cincinnati & New York / 4573"--text, bottom right. "Direction Martin Beck"--text, top margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.12 x 104.78 cm (28 x 41 1/4 in.)
Cressy, Will M. (Will Martin), 1863-1930--Portraits Dayne, Blanche, 1871-1944--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actresses--Pictorial works Country life--Pictorial works Photography--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Vaudeville 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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