Sol Smith Russell's Great Play: A Poor Relation – Historic Print
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This rare historic image captures Sol Smith Russell's Great Play: A Poor Relation in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sol Smith Russell's Great Play: A Poor Relation
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Sol Smith Russell is the name at the center of this picture, a stage actor whose comedies drew large audiences in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The title points to "A Poor Relation," a play in which he starred and which was among the works that made his reputation on the American stage. Shown in a family setting, the picture reflects the domestic sentimentality that ran through many popular plays of the period, where households, loyalty and modest hardship were common themes. Theatrical portraits like this one were often circulated as keepsakes and publicity, so they tell us as much about how audiences looked at family life on stage as about the performer himself.
| Original scan | 1,924 × 2,857 px · prints to 6 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 1349u |
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