COLLECTION NAME:
Theatre Arts
Record
Title:
Frank Chanfrau as Mose the Bowery Boy
Collection Title:
Theatre Arts
Notes:
ca. 1848 ; lithograph ; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Collection Information:
Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402)-472-1193
Description:
Frank S. Chanfrau in the character of Mose as originally written for, and performed by him at the Olympic and Chatham Theatres, New York ; full-length portrait, as a fireman in a defiant stance, standing in the street, facing left, as fire fighters man the hoses in the background ; caption: I'm bound not to run wid der machine any more
Subject.Persons:
Chanfrau, Frank, 1824-1884 -- Performances
Subject.Entities:
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Subject:
Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century ;Fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1840-1850 ;Actors
Location:
New York (State)--New York
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Libraries
Image.Date:
2014
