Cigar box label: Original Mikado
subject: Original Mikado, cigar, label, advertising, The Mikado, A. Koenig, Philadelphia
description: 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.
creator: Koenig, A. (lithographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: A. Koenig, Philadelphia
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Small cigar box label

Cigar box label: Patience
subject: Patience, cigar, label, advertising, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
description: 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.
creator: Harris, George H. (lithographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Large cigar box label

Cigar box label: Pinafore
subject: Pinafore, cigar, label, advertising, H.M.S. Pinafore, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
description: 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.
creator: Harris, George H. (lithographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Small cigar box label

Cigar box label: Opera Kings
subject: Opera Kings, cigar, label, advertising, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
description: 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.
creator: Harris, George H. (lithographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: George H. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Large cigar box label

Stock trade card using Ruddygore theme with advertising overprint
subject: Ruddygore, advertising, trade card
description: 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.
creator: Bufford & Sons (printer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Advertising trade card

Adams & Westlake advertisement for "The Mikado" lamp stove
subject: The Mikado, advertising, trade card, lamp stove, Adams & Westlake
description: 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."
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Co.
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Advertising trade card

N. Y. Lake Erie and Western R.R. advertisement using adapted Patience lyric
subject: Patience, advertising, trade card, New York Lake Erie and Western Rail Road
description: 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…."
creator: Cosack & Co. (printer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: N.Y. Lake Erie & Western R.R.
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Advertising trade card

Willimantic Thread advertisement using H.M.S. Pinafore theme
subject: H.M.S. Pinafore, advertising, trade card, Willimantic, cotton, thread
description: 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."
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Willimantic Linen Co., Willimantic, Connecticut
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Advertising trade card

Kate Forster as Pitti-Sing, Geraldine Ulmar as Yum-Yum, and Geraldine St. Maur as Peep-Bo in The Mikado
subject: 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
description: 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.
creator: Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925 (photographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Benjamin Falk, New York
date: 1885/1886
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Cabinet photograph

Sanolin Tooth Paste pot lid
subject: 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
description: Gray ceramic pot lid for "Sanolin Tooth Paste" with central figure of three women in kimonos holding closed fans near their faces.
creator: Lorimer & Co. (London, England)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Lorimer & Co., London
date: undated
relation: Exhibition Catalog
format: Ceramic pot lid