- unitid
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{"value"=>"21423", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*T-Vim 1998-025", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1901-1915", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1901/1915"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"L. J. Binns caricatures"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".5 lin. ft. (2 boxes)", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The caricatures are predominately of British personalities, mainly from the world of theater including actors, actresses, playwrights, theater managers and musicians. Also includes a few Americans who were working in the London theater scene, some reform-minded British politicians and two prominent caricaturists of the period. The drawings, some pen and ink, some watercolor, are all signed by Binns; many are autographed by the subject as well."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Binns, L. J.", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>L. J. Binns was a caricaturist working after the turn of the 20th-century in England. He drew caricatures of British personalities, mainly from the worlds of theater and politics. Binns had associations with two predominant caricaturists of this period, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould and Harry Furniss.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The L. J. Binns caricatures (1901-1915) consists predominantly of British personalities, mainly, but not exclusively, drawn from the theater world. L. J. Binns signed all of these originals and many are autographed by the subject of the caricature.</p> <p>The caricatures from the theater world include actors, actresses, playwrights, theatre managers and musicians. The caricatures consist of people working in the London theater scene, including a limited number of Americans working in England after the turn of the century such as Eugene Stratton and Hermann Vezin.</p> <p>One folder contains the autograph of actress Lena Ashwell without any caricature. It is the only folder not to contain a caricature.</p> <p>The caricatures of political leaders consists of more reform-oriented leaders of their day, such as one of the founders of the Labour Party, James Keir Hardie, and a campaigner against child prostitution, William Thomas Stead.</p> <p>Two caricatures are of prominent caricaturists of that period, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould and Harry Furniss. The folder of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, a pioneer of \"picture politics\" and sole illustrator of <span class=\"title\">Picture Politics</span>, contains two letters from Gould to L. J. Binns establishing a relationship between these two caricaturists.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Drawings: gift, unknown date.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Rick Hunter.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact theatre@nypl.org.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Component titles revised; spelling correction and authorized agents and subjects added.", "date"=>"2021-10"}
{"value"=>"Several misattributions corrected.", "date"=>"2022-11"}
{"value"=>"Some component titles and scope and contents notes revised.", "date"=>"2023-04"}
- date_start
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1901
- keydate
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1901
- date_end
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1915
- date_inclusive_start
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1901
- date_inclusive_end
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1915
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"L. J. Binns caricatures, *T-Vim 1998-025. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}