"A Child of the State" by George Hoey
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This colored theater print depicts a scene from a play <i>A Child of the State</i> in which a young woman stands outside a doorway at the top of the stairs. She is surrounded by nuns, and men in plain dress stand guard on each side of the doorway. Four men and three women in elaborate clothing are in the foreground. The play was adapted by George Curtis Hoey (1852-1907), New York City playright/actor, from French melodrama called <i>Les Orphelines de la Charite.</i> There is a datebill or pasted on label indicating the play was performed: Park Theater, Dec 28, 29, & 30. The year is not included bit it was circa 1880, and George Hoey played the part of the character Gros- Rene.
label: Description
content: The Park Theater was built in 1798 on Park Row in Manhattan and was New York City’s premiere performance space in the early 19th Century. It attracted a diverse audience with each class sitting in its preferred section. Working class men sat in the pit; members of the upper class and women in the boxes, while the less affluent including immigrants, people of color, and prostitutes sat in the balcony.
label: Description
content: This chromolithograph was produced by the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company. The Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company was founded by William H. Forbes (ca 1836-1915), who immigrated to the United States from Liverpool, England in 1848. Forbes became an apprentice in the lithography business while still a boy and established William H. Forbes and Company in Boston in 1861. The firm expanded to become Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company in 1875 with hundreds of employees and offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and London. During World War II the company became a major printer of allied military currency but went out of business later in the twentieth century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Architecture
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.60.3013
label: catalog number
content: 60.3013
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 22 3/4 in x 17 1/2 in; 57.785 cm x 44.45 cm