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Card program for John Stetson's Opera Company production of Princess Ida at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.

Ten transcriptions of songs from Iolanthe by Ernest Perabo with color illustrated cover featuring four vignettes.

Elaborate souvenir program with ornate blue and gold toned covers and blue ribbon fastener for Collier's Standard Opera Company's 100th performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe at the Bijou Theatre, Boston. Twenty internal pages including nine…

Full length photograph of J. H. Ryley as the Lord Chancellor, seated at desk in elaborate robe and wig, holding quill pen right hand, on photographer's card mount of Sarony, New York.

Full length photograph of Marie Jansen as the fairy Iolanthe, in bucolic setting, hands clutched to chest, wing tip visible behind right shoulder, on photographer's card mount of Sarony, New York.

Nearly full length photograph of John Howson as Reginald Bunthorne in dramatic pose before a wall, clutching a book to his left side, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Mount is marked "John Howson as…

Full length photograph of Laura Joyce as Lady Jane in aesthetic dress with crane design, holding bow to bass viol, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Mount is marked "Laura Joyce as Lady Jane in Patience,…

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…

Standard Theatre edition of the libretto for Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic opera Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride including six full page illustrations of characters in the opera. Authorized copyright edition.

Secretarial letter, signed R. D'Oyly Carte," on engraved writing paper of “D’Oyly Carte’s Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company,” dealing with performance rights for The Pirates of Penzance