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Program for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's performance of Utopia, Limited at the Boston Museum, Boston.

Two twelve-inch long playing stereophonic records in decorative box. Utopia Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Royston Nash. Cover image of Kenneth Sandford as…

Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown featuring eleven characters from Utopia Limited in three vignettes.

First night paper program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress at the Savoy Theatre, London. Program includes the statement that "On this occasion the opera will be conducted by the…

Sheet music with full color illustrated cover featuring two vignettes, the top with bridesmaids surrounding the defendant beneath the plaintiff and judge, the bottom with jurymen in a line behind defendant who plays guitar.

Farewell benefit program for Emily Soldene at The Globe Theatre, Boston. Program includes Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury, The Waterman (musical burletta by Charles Dibden) and the 1st and 2nd acts of Chilperic (opera bouffe by Hervé).

First run program illustrated with characters and scenes from Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury at the Royalty Theatre, London. Program also included a farce, The Secret, and Jacque Offenbach's opera, La Perichole.

Four volumes of stories, poems, cartoons, and puzzles, each containing several contributions by W. S. Gilbert. The Annual for 1873 also includes a story by Mark Twain. The volume is displayed open to Gilbert's two-page cartoon "Mr. Peters Takes a…

Program for the farcical comedy Tom Cobb by W. S. Gilbert and the "musical folly" The Zoo by "Bolton Rowe" [real name B. C. Stephenson] and Arthur Sullivan at St. James's Theatre, London. The program also included Charles Selby's Farce The Dancing…

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.