48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blain...
Description:
Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross ...
A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
Description:
Title from beginning of letterpress text.
Publisher:
published not identified
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Prints and some original drawings, both portrait and scenic, associated with members of the Burney family. Contents include four illustrations by Lowndes for Fanny Burney's Evelina; a variety of engraved portraits of historical figures, including memb...
Description:
Accompanied by a container list (in box 1).
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Europe
Subject (Name):
Burney family., Burney family, and Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Subject (Topic):
Celebrities, Kings and rulers, Landscape drawing, British, Landscape prints, British, and Portrait prints, British
Portrait of Samuel Hamilton Walker in half-length; based on daguerreotype by Brady; body toward right; head toward left in three-quarter profile; wearing tie, vest, jacket, and overcoat
Alternative Title:
Gallant Captain Walker of the Texan Rangers Captain Walker
Description:
Title from facsimilie signature caption below image.
Publisher:
published by Brady and printed by F. Michelin
Subject (Geographic):
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Subject (Name):
Walker, Samuel Hamilton, 1817-1847 and Texas Rangers
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1794]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full length portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram who began his career in shipping and trading, both in America and England, gaining a wide knowledge of colonial affairs. Later became projector of the Foundling Hospital, shown bust-length to left wi...
