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Title: Howard Athenaeum Star Specialty Co. of Boston
Creator: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1882
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of acrobats Leroux and Wilton swinging on bars in a gymnastic routine on a porch with trees and decorated columns in the background; head-and-shoulders portraits of Leroux (presumably Charles LeRoux) and Wilton at corners.
Probable date based on date of newspaper advertisements for the act including "The Howard Athenaeum Star Specialty Company ... The Celebrated Gymnasts, Leroux & Wilton ... (Boston Daily Globe, 13 March 1887, page 11) "Forbes Co. Boston & N.Y."--text, bottom left. "Rich & Harris Propr's & Mang'rs."--text, center top under title.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 64.77 x 51.75 cm (25 1/2 x 20 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000392
386808
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2552
Language: English
Subject: Leroux, Charles, 1856 or 1857-1889--Portraits
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Theatrical productions
Howard Athenaeum Star Specialty Company
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (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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