Watch and Wait! Or Through Fire
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Albaugh, J. W.
label: maker
content: Metropolitan Printing Company
label: maker
content: Rothengatter
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print is a theater poster depicting a bust of the American actor and manager J. W. Albaugh. The bust is surrounded by six scenes from a play. The words “Watch and Wait!” appear at the top of the poster, and “Or Through Fire” is printed at the bottom. This probably was the name of the play.
label: Description
content: Actor John William Albaugh, Sr. (1837-1909) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and began his stage career playing the lead role in a play called <i>Brutus, or The Fall of Tarquin,</i> in Baltimore in 1855. He went on to perform in classical plays and melodramas and became especially well known for his performance in <i>Louis XI </i>in New York. He later owned or managed theaters in Baltimore, Washington, DC; New Orleans, Louisiana; St. Louis, Missouri; and Albany, New York. He retired from the stage in 1899. His son, John Albaugh, Jr. was also an actor and stage manager.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by the Metropolitan Printing Company and E. Rothengatter. Emil Rothengatter (1848-1939) was a German-born artist and designer of circus posters who worked in cities including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896 he won a contest to design the flag of Cincinnati for a work he called “Zero of Burnet Woods.” However, controversy over whether Cincinnati should have a flag delayed the design’s formal adoption until 1940. Emil Rothengatter also wrote a book entitled <i>Art of Poster Making in the United States,</i> published in 1911. He died in New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Lighting
label: Subject
content: Railroads
label: Subject
content: Furnishings
label: Subject
content: Wagons
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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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.60.3016
label: catalog number
content: 60.3016
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 24 in x 18 1/2 in; 60.96 cm x 46.99 cm