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.
Sheet music with gray and black illustrated cover featuring a scene in front of London's House of Parliament with Queen of the Fairies threatening Lord Chancellor, other fairies on their knees.
Nearly full length photograph of Jessie Bond costume covered in weeds, arm crossed in front of chest on photographer's card mount of Elliott & Fry, London. Mount is marked "Miss Jessie Bond as 'Iolanthe.'"
Three-quarter length photograph of George Grossmith in judicial wig and elaborate robe sitting in ornate chair on photographer's card mount of Elliott & Fry, London. Mount is marked "George Grossmith. as the Lord Chancellor in 'Iolanthe.'"
Decorative card program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri at the Savoy Theatre, London, along with the vaudeville Mock Turtles (music by Eaton Faning, words by Frank Desprez).
First night paper program for W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri at the Savoy Theatre, London. Program includes the statement that "On this occasion the opera will be conducted by the composer."