Frank M. Mayo bust portrait published by A. Hoen & Co.
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Mayo, Frank
label: maker
content: A. Hoen & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print is an oval bust portrait of actor and comedian Frank Mayo in a rectangular frame. Below the print a torn datebill notice reads “Grand Opera House! Wednesday, Mar. 8.”
label: Description
content: Frank Maguire Mayo (1839-96) was born in Boston, the son of Irish immigrants. At the age of 14 he headed west with his family to California in search of success during the Gold Rush. After failing to make his fortune as a miner, he turned to the stage and made his acting debut in San Francisco at the age of 17. He worked in repertory theater and toured the country starring in a variety of roles, including the part of Ferdinand in Shakespeare's <i> The Tempest</i> and numerous other Shakespearean roles. In the early 1870s, he achieved his most lasting success as the lead in <i> Davy Crockett</i>, a play about the renowned frontiersman by Frank Murdoch (1843-72). Mayo was a popular performer who won praise for the realistic style and quiet authority he brought to the role, which he continued to perform for the next twenty years. He died of heart disease while on tour in a dramatized version of Mark Twain’s novel <i> Puddn’head Wilson</i>.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by A. Hoen & Co., a lithographic firm in Baltimore, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia. The company was established by August and Ernest Hoen in the 1840s after the death of Edward Webber and the takeover of the E. Weber Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
topic: label: Subject
content: Adornment
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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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.60.3053
label: catalog number
content: 60.3053
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 21 1/4 in x 17 3/4 in; 53.975 cm x 45.085 cm