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., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., Founded in 1849 as Middleton and Wallace, the company's style changed to The Strobridge Lithographing Company in 1880.
Date
1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Haverly's [1975.F.448; 1975.F.450 & 451]
Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22] for similar illustration., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507]
Illustrated trade card depicting a comic scene with two men and a dog on a wooden pier fishing in a lake. Another man swims in the water unseen by the fishermen and pulls their fishing lines toward the shore., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See trade card - Loudenslager [1975.F.507] for similar illustration., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bragg [P.9111.22]
