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Image Title: Now Let The Show Go On!, 1884

Creator: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937, artist

Date: 1884 September 17.

Summary: Print shows Benjamin F. Butler standing on a stage dressed as a clown, a list of nominations for the 1884 presidential election trails from his pocket: "Last ... Greenback ... Convict Party ... Tewksbury Pauper ... Women's Suffrage ... His own nomination"; next to him Belva Lockwood has emerged through a hole in the stage floor carrying over her head a scroll announcing the "Nomination for Pres. Women's Rights Party."

Subjects: Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893
Circuses & shows--1880-1890
Clowns--1880-1890
Lockwood, Belva Ann,--1830-1917
Presidential elections--1880-1890
Women's rights--1880-1890

Original Media: Lithograph

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