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Poster for "Uncle Josh Spruceby"
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Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a man wounded on the floor of the sawmill and a damsel in distress tied to a log enroute to a whirling blade while a black-clad moustached man looks on with pistol smoking at his side. At the bottom of the poster is the caption "The Exciting Saw-Mill Scene."
1890
National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.)
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W013MPS
WHi 89939
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