Gilbert's self-portrait is captioned "I am an Englishman. Behold me!", a line from Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore. Sullivan's musical quote is from his drawing room ballad "Once Again."
Nearly full length photograph of Jessie Bond as Hebe and J. H. Ryley as Sir Joseph Porter, she with right hand on his left shoulder, he holding hat by his left side, on photographer's card mount of Mora, New York.
Illustrated program for first night of D'Oyly Carte's production of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York. Program's brown illustrations created in London, text details in black added in New York.
Full length photograph of children Flora Walsh as Josephine and Lizzie Ayers as Ralph Rackstraw, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Image is in arched shape, mount is marked "Flora Walsh and Lizzie Ayers…
Full length photograph of children Harry Davenport as Sir Joseph Porter and Lillie Parsloe as Hebe, "shipwrecked" in painted ocean waves, on photographer's card mount of Trask, Philadelphia.
Pink silk souvenir of 100th presentation of H.M.S. Pinafore at the Standard Theatre, New York, with Cox and Box; or the Long Lost Brothers (music by Sullivan, book by F. C. Burnand).
Folding stick fan, with scene from H.M.S. Pinafore printed on gold background. Fourteen black sticks, the center twelve with pierced design. Design features Captain Corcoran, Sir Joseph Porter, Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, and Dick Deadeye in…