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Poster for the £20,000 Reward for the Discovery of the Missing Franklin Expedition
W.A.B. [William Alexander Baillie] Hamilton, Secretary of the British Admiralty, authorized the publication of this broadside in March of 1850. It was part of the effort to find the crew and vessels connected to Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to…
William Shakespeare
Poster depicting various characters from William Shakespeare's plays and Globe Theatre.
Captain Franklin, F.R.S.
Captain Franklin, Commander of the land Arctic expedition
Amateur Actors Performing Hamlet
Colour lithograph of politicians playing the roles in the play within Hamlet; a presentation cartoon from the "St. Stephens' Review."
Katharina and Petruchio
Engraving of a scene from The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio standing to left, right hand on his hip, holding up a new cap in his left and mocking its shape, before giving it back to the waiting haberdasher despite Catherine's protestations that…
Shakespeare and amateur performance in the Canadian North
A digital archive of the only recorded evidence of Shakespeare performed by amateurs in the Canadian North. Crews sailing under the command of Sir. Edward Belcher in the 1852 expedition to find the lost Franklin ships performed Shakespeare's Hamlet…