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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.

Libretto for the first American production of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and his Maid, by the Rudolph Aronson Company at New York's Casino Theatre, beginning 17 October 1888. The Aronson production was…

Burgundy silk souvenir program for D'Oyly Carte's 150th performance of The Pirates of Penzance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.

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, New York. Playbill includes both cast of characters and a synopsis of incidents, with sample…

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 reads "The Merry Merry Maiden and the Tar," a parody of a lyric from the opera.

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.

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.

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

Libretto for the first American production of Gilbert & Sullivan's supernatural opera Ruddygore; or, The Witch's Curse, by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at New York's Fifth Avenue Theatre, beginning 22 January 1887. Unlike in the United Kingdom,…

Full length photograph of Richard Clarke and Richard Temple as Venetian gondoliers with arms on each other's shoulder on photographer's light brown card mount of Sarony, New York.