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Title: The planter’s wife
Creator: T. Sinclair & Son, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
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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 a couple, with the man on his tiptoes, holding hands and about to kiss in front of a bush with flowers; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Planter's Wife" by James K. Tillotson.
Local copy is fragment of poster; probable date based on general show and printer histories; the play was first performed in 1880 and T. Sinclair & Son operated until 1888. "Thos. Sinclair & Son, Lith [?]"--text, bottom margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 37.47 x 17.15 cm (14 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000458
386252
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1784
Language: English
Subject: Actors--Pictorial works
Actresses--Pictorial works
Melodramas
Couples--Pictorial works
Theatrical productions
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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