A Musical Farce Comedy: The Air Ship, Spring Morning in Dawson City – Antique Print
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This rare historic image captures A Musical Farce Comedy: The Air Ship, Spring Morning in Dawson City in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Musical Farce Comedy: The Air Ship, Spring Morning in Dawson City
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Few places in North America were as improbable as Dawson City in spring, when a muddy town at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers held tens of thousands of hopeful prospectors. The title names a musical farce called *The Air Ship* and a morning setting, which suggests a light comic entertainment aimed at a frontier audience. Airships were a popular comic subject around 1900, when balloons and early dirigibles were still novelties that drew crowds and newspaper attention. The picture is a reminder that even remote mining camps followed the theatrical fashions of the wider world.
| Original scan | 1,395 × 2,149 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 0885u |
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