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The new baby : a howling success chaperoned by David De Wolf

Description: The Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera contains more than 2,600 printed items primarily advertising theatrical and musical entertainment and related performers in the United States from 1839 to the 1940s, with the majority of items dating from the 1870s to the 1890s. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations pertaining to a wide variety of performance genres that have been grouped broadly as music and theater (including theater, music, dance, burlesque, comedy, pantomime, and variety); minstrel (including minstrel shows, blackface entertainers, and female minstrels); and magic and miscellaneous (including magicians, motion pictures, and Wild West shows). The collection has 442 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic theatrical and minstrel posters that were intended to advertise specific shows or performers. Small-size items in the collection number approximately 2,130 and are comprised mainly of promotional ephemera and business documents such as trade cards, programs and playbills, souvenir booklets, die-cut cards, and printed billheads and letterheads with manuscript text. The collection provides a resource for studying the history of the American theater and the evolution of advertising strategies for the performing arts in the United States in the late 19th century. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1901
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000308
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Arnold, Vic. (approximately 1837-1914.); Baker, Joseph E., (approximately 1820-); Bencke, Herman. (1868-1903.); Blue, Ed. (1853-1925.); Bonar, Thomas. (1843-1895.); Briggs, A. (-1926.); Cadwell, William H. (1812-1895.); Dreser, William, (1824-); Dunshee, E. S. (active 1870-1880.); Durkin, J. (1839-1890.); Etherington, C. (1832-1910.); Falk, B. J. (1848-1939.); Frizzell, S. S. (1821-1896.); Goodman, Arthur Jule, (1834-1904.); Gurney, Jeremiah, (1836-1918.); Haehnlen, Jacob, (1850-1901.); Hallworth, Joseph B.; Hart, Chas.; Hyde, James G.; Lord, F.; Maerz, Alois J.; Magee, John L.; Morgan, Matthew Somerville,; Parsloe, Edmond.; Peel, J. W.; Rimanoczy, A.,; Rothengatter, Emil,; Sarony, Napoleon,; Thomas, Henry Atwell,; Willard, Archibald M.,; Windisch, A.; De La Harpe, Joseph,
Associated organizations: A. Hoen & Co.; A.S. Seer's Printing Establishment (New York, N.Y.); Ackermann-Quigley Litho. Co.; Alfred Mudge and Son.; American Lithographic Co.; American Oleograph Co.; American Show Print (Firm); Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.); Boston Job Print.; Burk & McFetridge.; Calhoun Printing Company.; Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.); Central Lith. & Eng. Co.; Chicago Bank Note Company.; Chicago Lithographing Co.; Clear & Co.; Courier Company.; Currier & Ives.; David Allen & Sons.; Donaldson Litho. Co.; Enquirer Job Printing Co.; Enquirer Litho Co.; Enterprise Litho Co.; Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co.; Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company.; Francis & Valentine.; Goes Lithographic Co.; Graphic Company.; Great Western Pr. Eng. & Lith. Co.; Greve Show Print Co.; H. A. Thomas & Co.; H. A. Thomas & Sterling.; H.A. Thomas & Wylie.; H.C. Miner Litho. Co.; Hatch Lith. Co.; Henry Seibert & Bros.; J. Ottmann Lithographic Company.; J.M.W. Jones Stationery & Printing Co.; Kurz & Allison.; Ledger Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.); Liebler & Maass.; MacBrair Lith. Co.; Maerz Lith. Co.; Metropolitan Job Printing and Engraving Establishment.; Metropolitan Print.; N. Currier (Firm); National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.); New England Lithographic Co.; New York Popular Publishing Co.; Otis Lithograph Co.; Mesier's Lith.; Phoenix Litho. Co.; Quigley Litho. Co.; R. H. Eichner & Co. Lith.; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.); Riverside Printing Company.; Russell-Morgan Print.; Schmidt Label & Litho. Co.; Shearman & Hart.; Shober & Carqueville.; Springer Litho. Co.; Stafford & Co.; Standard Embossing Co.; Strobridge & Co. Lith.; Strobridge Lithographing Company.; T. Fitzwilliams and Co.; T. Sinclair & Son.; T. Sinclair's Lith.; U.S. Printing Co.; Thomas, Sterling & Wylie.; Una & Sturn.; W.J. Morgan & Co.; Walker Lith. Pub. Co.; Walle & Co.; Wm. Bengough & Co.
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