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Silk sachet with image of Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Peep-Bo: a souvenir of a production of The Mikado at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Four trade cards depicting characters from Patience and quotes from the opera: Bunthorne ("In a rapt ecstatic way"), Jane ("I am soulfully intense), Grosvenor ("A very daisy") and Saphir (How earnestly precious"). Each has overprint in advertising…

Program, Mr. R. D’Oyly Carte’s englisher Opera-Gesellschaft in Der Mikado; ober, Ein Tag in Titipu. Typeset text with hand-colored woodcut illustrations.

Black and white photograph of outdoor stage with cast of The Gondoliers, orchestra, and audience at Brockwell Park, S.E. London.

Binoculars made by Carl Zeiss, Germany, with leather case. The binoculars are engraved with Sullivan’s name and address: 1, Queen’s Mansions, Victoria Street, London, S.W.

Horizontal cabinet photo of three actors in top hats and eight actresses in fairy costumes (five standing, three seated on the floor).

Libretto for Mirette, an opera in three acts written for the Savoy Theatre, London. Founded on the French of Michel Carré, with English lyrics by Frederic E. Weatherly and Adrian Ross, English dialogue by Harry Greenbank, and music by André…

Portrait photograph of Tom Taylor, on photographer's card mount by John & Charles Watkins, London

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.

Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Topley, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, autographed below the image "Arthur Sullivan 1880."