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Fire-walking fanatics from remote parts of the world! Upper Cuba Street, Dec[ember] 18, [ca 1914].
- Date
- 1910 - 1920
- By
- Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978; Cabot, Beatrice Eliza, 1894-1981
- Reference
- Eph-D-CABOT-Variety-1900s-01
- Description
Yellow poster with red and black print, showing three figures in loin cloths, dancing through flames.
From the numbering "Evening Post print - 51089", one could date it to approximately February 1914 - see similarly numbered flyers for Paul Dufault's concerts (Feb. 1914) Evening post print 51018, or George Willoughby's first annual pantomime "Aladdin" (51388), both at Eph-B-WILLIAMSON-1914.
Other Titles - Who barelegged and barefooted walk, run and dance on burning, flaming-hot fire. Weird! Thrilling! Sensational!
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Evening Post Print - 51089.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster..
Physical Description: Woodcut, 750 x 500 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: File print and colour transparency in Ephemera Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976] / [Posters of around A2 size collected by Charles Cabot, for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances, mainly in New Zealand.]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s) on poster., Ephemera, Woodcuts, Posters, Advertisements, Woodcut, 750 x 500 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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