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Full length photograph of Furneaux Cook as the Sergeant of Police, standing before a column, white gloved hand grip belt, on photographer's card mount of Mora, New York.

Full color lithograph poster for "The Rising Sun" stove polish, depicting Lillian Russell as Aline in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer, in elaborate sleeveless dress with small white flowers in hair and star-shaped pendant, elbow resting on wall.

Decorative program and menu for the "Savoyard Celebration Dinner" sponsored by the O.P. Club, and held at the Hotel Cecil, Strand, London. The event celebrates the start of the first London repertory season of Gilbert & Sullivan operas. W. S.…

First run program illustrated with characters and scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera The Sorcerer at the Opera Comique, London. Program also included revival of Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

First night paper program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride at the Opera Comique, London. Program cover includes pink decorative border and three capital letters.

Brown tinted engraving of Kate Santley as Princess Toto in warrior costume with sheathed dagger, short skirt, cape, and flowered hat." Miss Braham's four-line facsimile autograph quote from the opera, beginning "When I wish to nerve myself to a deed…

Playbill for Tony Pastor's burlesque The Pie-Rats of Penn Yann, a burlesque of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, at Tony Pastor's Theatre, New York. Playbill includes both cast of characters and a synopsis of incidents, with sample…

Souvenir with cover illustration of new costume design for John Wellington Wells in The Sorcerer, doffing hat with right hand, holding carpet bag in left. Souvenir celebrates new production of The Sorcerer at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, with…

Color lithograph cartoon on front cover of Puck featuring Samuel J. Tilden as Reginal Bunthorne holding a sunflower labeled "1884," and the Democratic Party of the United States as twenty love-sick maidens from Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic opera…

Double page lithograph cartoon in green and orange tones, featuring Ulysses Grant as Captain of the "Third Term Pinafore," surrounded by other politicians in Pinafore costumes. Ten-line verse beneath Grant beginning "I was so good a General that I…