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Professor Cummings, the celebrated magician, vocalist, and comedian!!

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"Piece-work!! Piece-work! Magic! ... Mystic arts! ... Dancing babies!"

Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The collection includes posters advertising individual plays and operettas, burlesque, vaudeville, and specialty acts, dance companies, extravaganzas produced by the Kiralfy Brothers, portraits of entertainers, and stock posters. Featured performers include Julia Arthur, De Wolfe Hopper, Joseph Hart Vaudeville Co., Thomas W. Keene, Andrew Mack, Robert B. Mantell, Mathews & Bulger, Lewis Morrison, Phil Sheridan's New City Sports Co., Royal Lilliputians, and Jennie Yeamans. Directors, managers, and producers include Edward J. Abraham, Blaney, and Vance, William A. Brady, Sidney R. Ellis, W.J. Fielding, Charles Frohman, Hoyt & McKee, the Kiralfy Brothers, Jacob Litt, Rice & Burton, Rich & Harris, A.Q. Scammon, Sam S. Schubert, Thall & Kennedy, Fred E. Wright, Charles H. Yale, and others. Playwrights include David Belasco, George H. Broadhurst, Bartley Campbell, Charles Turner Dazey, Gilbert & Sullivan, William Gillette, Seymour Hicks, David Higgins, Bronson Howard, Cecil Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Sutton Vane, and others. Plays include such popular titles as Arizona, At Piney Ridge, By the sad sea waves, Devil's auction, Evangeline, Faust, Female drummer, H.M.S. Pinafore, The hidden hand, The last of the Rohans, Ole Olson, The Queen of Chinatown, Shenandoah, Siberia, The sporting life, Uncle Tom's cabin, Venice, The war of wealth, Way down East, Yon Yonson, and others. Images depicted include scenes from plays, portraits of performers, and performers performing. Featured entertainers are not always depicted in the image. Some posters are mainly textual with peripheral images.

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01/01/1840
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Scene at a Fair: A Magician, anonymous French

[Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes] Findlay, Ohio, September 14, 2007 -- FEMA Community Relations Specialist Wilhemina Hearne (L) and Fumiko Harada Ph.D. (R) a professor of Japanese at the University of Findlay, speak with two Japanese community residents who received damage to their residences and belongings during recent flooding. FEMA reaches out to all communities insuring that non-English speaking residents register with FEMA if they have suffered damage to their homes. John Ficara/FEMA

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) James Cummings, 65th Communications Squadron (CS) at Lajes Field, Azores, in a manhole troubleshoots a 2400-pair communications cable to bring up communications systems to the Department of Defense (DoD) school system and other building nearby

Secretary Shaun Donovan in Baltimore, Maryland [for tour of, and press conference promoting, the City Arts Apartments construction project in the Station North area of the city. The City Arts Apartments project is being developed by Homes of America, Jubilee, and TRF Development Partners in Baltimore, and is expected to create or save over 160 jobs for Baltimore residents. Secretary Donovan was joined on the tour by Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Secretary Raymond Skinner, other state and local officials, and corporate partner representatives.]

DR. CHARLES RICHARD DREW, M.D., C.M., MED. D.Sc. - PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, HOWARD UNIVERSTITY, CHIEF SURGEON, FREEDMESN'S HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.

That motherly old lady on the dome

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee (formerly of Primrose & West).

A man in a red coat and a woman in a red dress. Comedian musician street.

A woman sitting at a table in a room. Fantasy woman mysticism, beauty fashion.

Prof. W.A. Phelps, Pratt Institute

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician

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