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Full length photograph of Thomas Whiffen as Sir Joseph Porter, in elaborate uniform as First Lord of the Admiralty, left hand on hip, right hand hold rolled scroll, on green photographer's card mount of Sarony, New York.

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…

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).

Small card program for Children's production of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S Pinafore at the Boston Museum.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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."

Burgundy silk souvenir program for D'Oyly Carte's 150th performance of The Pirates of Penzance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.