Original Mikado, cigar, label, advertising, The Mikado, A. Koenig, Philadelphia
Outer cigar box label for "Original Mikado" cigars, design in full color, with "Original Mikado" at top, the title character from the opera The Mikado front and center surrounded by Japanese artifacts.
David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
Exhibition Catalog
Patience, cigar, label, advertising, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
Inner cigar box label for "Patience" cigars, design in full color, featuring two vignettes from Patience. On the left in an oval is the milkmaid Patience, her left elbow resting on her milk pail, in the upper right is the poets Bunthorne, surrounded by four maidens. Ordering details printed on reverse side.
Pinafore, cigar, label, advertising, H.M.S. Pinafore, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
Outer cigar box label for "Pinafore" cigars, design in blue and beige, with "Pinafore" in banner at top, scene from H.M.S. Pinafore beneath with Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Tom Tucker in foreground.
Opera Kings, cigar, label, advertising, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
Inner cigar box label for "Opera Kings" cigars, design in gold and sepia, featuring large sepia images of Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in the center. This is a salesman's sample with ordering details at the bottom.
Stock trade card using Ruddygore theme with advertising overprint
Lithograph trade card in green and beige tones lady dancing with Old Adam, captioned "Hail the bridegroom--Hail the bride!". "Ruddygore" upper left. Ad for New England Organ Co. entered below.
Adams & Westlake advertisement for "The Mikado" lamp stove
The Mikado, advertising, trade card, lamp stove, Adams & Westlake
Color lithograph card depicting hand holding "The Mikado" Lamp Stove and three male Japanese characters. "This Stove is dedicated to his Majesty the 'Mikado' Grand Dictator of the Realm of Japan who is on our list."
N. Y. Lake Erie and Western R.R. advertisement using adapted Patience lyric
Patience, advertising, trade card, New York Lake Erie and Western Rail Road
Lithograph trade card in blue and beige tones depicting railway conductor greeting lady on platform, train in background. Adapted Patience lyric upper left: "Conceive him if you can. An Erie R.R. young man…."
Willimantic Thread advertisement using H.M.S. Pinafore theme
H.M.S. Pinafore, advertising, trade card, Willimantic, cotton, thread
Color lithograph card depicting nine characters from H.M.S. Pinafore on shipboard with two huge spools of cotton thread. The Captain, center, asserts that he never "used anything equal to Willimantic six cord spool cotton."
Willimantic Linen Co., Willimantic, Connecticut
Kate Forster as Pitti-Sing, Geraldine Ulmar as Yum-Yum, and Geraldine St. Maur as Peep-Bo in The Mikado
The Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Kate Forster, Geraldine Ulmar, Geraldine St. Maur, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Cabinet photographs, Falk, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York
Full length photograph of Geraldine St. Maur, Geraldine Ulmar, and Kate Forster in kimonos holding closed fans near faces on photographer's card mount of Falk, New York.
Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925 (photographer)
The Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Kate Forster, Geraldine Ulmar, Geraldine St. Maur, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, ceramic pot lid, Lorimer & Co., London
Gray ceramic pot lid for "Sanolin Tooth Paste" with central figure of three women in kimonos holding closed fans near their faces.