Image of a half-length portrait of actor and Salsbury's Troubadours member Nellie McHenry, wearing a large feathered blue hat and a dress decorated with a bird and butterfly, looking out of a wooden window adorned with morning glory flowers; with date sheet for a March 16, [1886], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at the bottom of the poster. Probable date calculated by cataloger based on day and month on date sheet; a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper advertised McHenry and the Salsbury's Troubadours in the comedy "Tom, Dick & Harry" by Edward E. Kidder at the Fulton Opera House on March 16, 1886 (Lancaster Daily Intelligencer,15 March 1886, page 4). "W. J. Morgan & Co. / Lith. Cleveland, O."--text, bottom right of image. "Fulton Opera House / Lancaster / Tuesday Mar. 16"--text, fragment of date sheet pasted to bottom of poster.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 103.51 x 64.14 cm (40 3/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
McHenry, Nellie, 1852 or 1853-1935--Portraits Salsbury's Troubadours--Portraits Actors--Portraits Actresses--Pictorial works Comedians--Portraits Fulton Opera House Salsbury's Troubadours Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Portrait prints. (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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