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Poster for "On Broadway"
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Black and white lithograph poster. Caption at top reads “Maggie Cline" with image of Cline at a Broadway intersection crossing a trolley track while a police officer holds up the car. Bottom caption reads "On Broadway--Management Harry Williams, written by Clay M. Greene and Ben Teal.”
1896
H.C. Miner Litho. Co.
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W014EFT
WHi 89916
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