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

First night program for W. S. Gilbert's musical legend The Gentleman in Black (with music by Alfred Cellier) at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The program also included the comedy Illusions (by Joseph J. Dilley) and the farce Captain Smith.

Card game with color lithographed box and 32 numbered playing cards, each card with a drawing from H.M.S. Pinafore. Box features image of a sailing ship.

Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue and brown tones featuring scenery from The Emerald Isle and a bust image of one female character above left.

Program for Adelphi Theatre dated Saturday 27 February 1982: D'Oyly Carte in association with Barclays Bank presents Gilbert & Sullivan, plus illustrated wrapper for An Evening of excerpts.

Program with lyrics for The Contrabandista; or, The Law of the Ladrones (music by Arthur Sullivan, words by F. C. Burnand) at St. George's Opera House, London. The program also includes Ching-Chow-Hi, an operatic extravaganza (by Offenbach).

Sheet music with illustrated cover in brown featuring five characters from The Chieftain in two vignettes.

Four pages of facsimile music manuscript for the song "The Absent-Minded Beggar" in decorative cover, with photographs of Arthur Sullivan and Rudyard Kipling.

Lithograph trade card in green and beige tones lady dancing with Old Adam, captioned "Hail the bridegroom--Hail the bride!". "Ruddygore" upper left. Ad for New England Organ Co. entered below.

This composition was published as a tribute to the comic magazine Fun, to which W. S. Gilbert was a leading contributor from 1861 to 1871. The figure in cap and bells (lower right) represents the magazine’s prominent rival, Punch.