Details
Contributor Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer.
Title [Haverly's Theatre, "The World," trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher Cincinnati : The Strobridge Lithographing Co
Date 1882
Physical Description 3 prints : chromolithographs ; 10 x 15.5 cm. (4 x 6 in.)
Description Series of illustrated trade cards entitled, "The escape, tableau V," "Jerusalem! My own notes! Act. 1 Sc. 1," and "The infernal machine, tableau II" depicting various scenes from "The World" performed at Haverly's Theatre on Monday, April 10, 1882, including guards scrambling in a enclosed courtyard; men and women standing on a pier with a a body of water and a large mountain in the background; and an explosion on a steamship with a man in the foreground shooting into a group of men. By the 1880s, J.H. Haverly owned several theaters in New York, and one in Brooklyn, Chicago and San Francisco.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Biographical / historical note Founded in 1849 as Middleton and Wallace, the company's style changed to The Strobridge Lithographing Company in 1880.
Subject Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901.
Theaters -- United States.
Action & adventure dramas.
Theatrical productions.
Explosions.
Piers & wharves.
Prison escapes.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Provenance: Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Haverly's [1975.F.448; 1975.F.450 & 451]
Accession number 1975.F.451