This is not an ad for the early Milwaukee County Zoo but something different entirely. Frank C. Bostock owned several animal shows and had a permanent exhibit hall in Milwaukee.
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Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Monday, September 9, 2013
Frank C. Bostock's Milwaukee Zoo (1900)
This is not an ad for the early Milwaukee County Zoo but something different entirely. Frank C. Bostock owned several animal shows and had a permanent exhibit hall in Milwaukee.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN ON THE STAGE
Dramatizations of this book were popular for decades, with people attending again and again. Note that the advertisement says this is the only legitimate production, but this is not true. Harriet Beecher Stowe never authorized any adaptation of her novel but copyright law was so lax at the time that she really just had to live with the productions, most of which were not that faithful to the book.
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