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1850 British playbill with a reference to the California Gold Rush For Sale


1850 British playbill with a reference to the California Gold Rush
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1850 British playbill with a reference to the California Gold Rush:
$191.09

[California Gold Rush. Playbill.]Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh. Last Night of the Christmas Pantomime ... Wednesday, January 30, 1850, Will be Performed ... the Celebrated Melo-Drama, in Three Acts, called The Rag Picker of Paris ... To conclude with the New Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime ... entitled Little Boy Blue!!! Or Harlequin & the Goblin Gnome of the Californian Gold Mines!N.p [Edinburgh],1850.


A playbill, approx. 9 x 16” (22 x 42 cm.), slightly frayed to extremities with archival tape repair at foot on back.


The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, California, in early 1848 sparked a gold rush that attracted prospectors from North America; by early 1849, people from around the world were travelling to the region. The popular response to the discovery included the pantomime advertised on the present playbill. The culminating drama of an evening of entertainment, the play featured a character named “Grizzle, a Miser, a Settler in California”, alongside nursery rhyme characters and other fanciful roles. The scenes included “A Rugged Defile near the Entrance to the Gold Mines”, “Avarice Farm on the Banks of the Rio Sacramento”, and “The Wild and Mountain Pass”.



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