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…
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…
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…
Black and white lithograph poster featuring ten separate images of characters from H.M.S. Pinafore. Top row: Captain Corcoran, Hebe, Bill Bobstay, Sir Joseph Porter, Josephine; bottom row: seven female relatives, Ralph Rackstraw, Little Buttercup,…
Hand colored lithograph of scene on board H.M.S. Pinafore. Captain and sailors look on as a bucket of tar has spilled on woman's dress. Caption reads "The Merry Merry Maiden and the Tar," a parody of a lyric from the opera.
Statue of two men at a fancy dress ball, one wearing a cap in the form of a phrenologist diagram is examining the bumps on the head of the other, dressed as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado. Base is marked "Phrenology at the fancy ball", "John Rogers, New…
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.
Card game with color lithographed box and 32 numbered playing cards, each card with a drawing from H.M.S. Pinafore. Box features image of a sailing ship.
Full length photograph of J. J. Dallas in Field Marshall's uniform looking up at Kate Talby in evening dress on photographer's green card mount of Rockwood, New York.
Full length photograph of Richard Clarke and Richard Temple as Venetian gondoliers with arms on each other's shoulder on photographer's light brown card mount of Sarony, New York.