Slover Marionettes Benefit Concert Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Poster advertising Willard and Joyce Larson’s scheduled benefit performance of the Slover Marionettes at the Central High School Auditorium in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on behalf of the city’s chapter of the Kidney Foundation, circa 1978. The poster features images of David Mulfinger at the piano, Willard and Joyce Larson holding marionettes (DeVere the Contortionist and Zuby Hagg the Witch). This was the Larson’s first outside debut following their inheritance of the Slover Marionettes from Joyce’s cousin, Florence King, in 1976.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date made: 1978
• user: Larson, Joyce Dean
• associated institution: Kidney Foundation
• user: Larson, James Willard
• Maker: Slover, James Henry
• Object Name: Poster
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 22 1/2 in x 12 in; 57.15 cm x 30.48 cm
• place made: United States
• Subject: Health Care
• Subject: Theater, Puppetry
• ID Number: 2004.0005.25
• accession number: 2004.0005
• catalog number: 2004.0005.25
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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