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

Small box with color lithographed cover for Little Buttercup's Toy Clothes-Pin. Cover features child actress in bonnet with basket. Several wooden clothes-pins in box.

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…

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.

Full length photograph of children Flora Walsh as Josephine and Lizzie Ayers as Ralph Rackstraw, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Image is in arched shape, mount is marked "Flora Walsh and Lizzie Ayers…

Illustrated program for W. S. Gilbert's three act farcical comedy Engaged at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. The program also includes the farce By the Sea (by an unidentified author).

Letter on behalf of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan grants Mr Stevens permission to perform Trial by Jury at a reduced fee which will go to the Victoria Hospital for Children.

Sheet music with illustrated cover in blue featuring actors in Troilus and Cressida costumes. Grand Duke Rudolph appears on the Ace of Clubs upper right.

Brown and black illustrated music cover featuring three bearded warriors in armor with broadswords.