Mr N.C. Goodwin Jr. Professor Pygmalionwhiffles
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name: label: depicted
content: Goodwin, Jr., Nathaniel C.
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notes: label: Description
content: This colored print depicts people lined up to enter a theater whose side wall is lined with posters. The center poster shows Mr. N. C. Goodwin Jr. as Professor Pygmalionwhiffles, seated in a chair. Other posters advertise <i>Goodwin's Froliques.</i>
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content: Nathaniel Carl Goodwin (1857-1919) was an American actor and vaudeville performer. He was born in Boston and worked as a shop clerk before making his first stage appearance as a newsboy in Law in New York in 1874. He spent several years working as a mimic and in musicals, including an appearance as the eccentric Professor Pygmalion Whiffles in an 1879 play called <i>Hobbies</i>. He also created his own farcical comedy show called <i>Froliques</i> with his wife Eliza Weathersby. His reputation as a comic performer was boosted by his role in the hit production <i>A Gilded Fool</i> in 1892, but the following year he proved he could take on serious roles as well, appearing as the sheriff Jim Rayburn in <i>In Mizzoura</i>. Although initially associated with a bawdy burlesque style, over the years Goodwin would win growing praise for more polished and restrained performances. His attempts at Shakespearean roles such as Bottom and Shylock were considered failures, but he won acclaim for his portrayal of the thieving Fagin in a 1912 adaptation of Charles Dickens's <i>Oliver Twist</i>. In 1878, he helped found the Boston Elks Lodge and went on to become one of America's first sports agents, representing a Boston baseball player named Mike "King" Kelly. He also served on the governing committee of the Actors Amateur Athletic Association of America. Later in life Goodwin owned a restaurant and cabaret called Cafe Nat Goodwin in Santa Monica, California.
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content: There is no information available about the lithographer for this print.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: World
topic: label: depicted
content: Costume
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content: Land Transportation
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content: Comic prints
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content: Flowers
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content: Furnishings
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content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
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content: Walking
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content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3023
label: catalog number
content: 60.3023
label: accession number
content: 228146
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content: chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 21 in x 33 3/4 in; 53.34 cm x 85.725 cm