Image of a scene in the kitchen of a Quaker home with a couple holding a gun belt out towards a visitor, while a woman cooks over a stove, two women bake pies, a man shaves over a wash basin, and a woman sits next to a child and dog; the poster advertises the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tent show managed by George W. Ripley and based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stow. Probable date approximated by cataloger based on notices for the show in The Billboard. "The / Donaldson / Litho. Co. / Newport / Ky. / No. 94[6]"--text, bottom left. "Be Not Over Hasty with These,-- The Quakers Home."--text, bottom centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 72.71 x 107 cm (28 5/8 x 42 1/8 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Historical dramas Kitchens--Pictorial works Melodramas Quakers--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Geo. W. Ripley’s Big Mammoth Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co 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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