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Cigar box label: Original Mikado

Outer cigar box label for "Original Mikado" cigars, design in full color, with "Original Mikado" at top, the title character from the opera The Mikado…

Phrenology at the fancy ball

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,…

Rising Sun Stove Polish advertisement

Full color lithograph poster for "The Rising Sun" stove polish, depicting Lillian Russell as Aline in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer, in elaborate…

Juvenile Pinafore advertisement

Black and white lithograph print, "Juvenile Pinafore" at top, scene from children's H.M.S. Pinafore at bottom, Little Buttercup front and center,…

The Merry Merry Maiden and the Tar

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…

H.M.S. Pinafore poster

Black and white lithograph poster featuring ten separate images of characters from H.M.S. Pinafore. Top row: Captain Corcoran, Hebe, Bill Bobstay,…

"A Pinaforic Suggestion--Reception to be Offered to the Homeward-bound Ulysses."

Double page lithograph cartoon in green and orange tones, featuring Ulysses Grant as Captain of the "Third Term Pinafore," surrounded by other…

The Pie-Rats of Penn Yan

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,…

"Their Only Hope--The Great 'Patience' Candidate"

Color lithograph cartoon on front cover of Puck featuring Samuel J. Tilden as Reginal Bunthorne holding a sunflower labeled "1884," and the Democratic…

The Mikado in Portland, Maine

Large color lithograph poster for The Mikado featuring portraits of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, plus five vignettes of characters and scenes…