The Romance of a Hammock - As Recited by Mr. Gus Williams in "One of the Finest"

([circa 1870's])

Published in English (United States)

Color: printed in color on both sides, read first one side then the other
Dimensions: 5-1/2" tall x 3-1/2" wide
Paper Stock: folded light cardboard/heavy paper booklet, which unfolds into a long strip, one panel per fold
Publishing Format: giveaway

Theatrical giveaway, depicting a small portion of the play "One of the Finest"; Gus Williams was an actor; John Rickaby the play's manager.

Genre: humor
Synopsis: A man rides by a woman on a hammock, they flirt, get married, have children, feel trapped in the marriage, the man blows his head off with a shotgun to escape, the widow returns to the hammock, a man rides by.

Victorian style comic: text narration appears beneath each picture, no word balloons.

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