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Description:
Theater Posters, Three Examples, 19th Century. Including: In Memoriam, New York: H.A. Thomas, J.E. Jackson, 1878, with portraits of twenty-eight actors, black-and-white lithograph, actors include J.B. Booth, Edwin Forrest, John Drew, Julia Dean, and others, with facsimiles of their signatures below; Mr. Sothern, David Garrick, Brother Sam, & Lord Dundreary, beige paper, lithograph in black-and-white, with the three characters; [and] Denman Thompson as Uncle Josh, bright printed chromolithograph showing a parlor scene with men in white tie, women in long gowns, as Uncle Josh, in his socks and loud jacket and waistcoat, takes the hand of the prettiest girl at the party, sizes vary. (3)
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
John Drew, Denman Thompson, Sam, Edwin Forrest, Julia Dean, Josh, H.A. Thomas, J.B. Booth, J.E. Jackson, Dundreary, SothernJohn Dorfman
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