"A Dark Secret"

rowing poster

Rowing poster for Henley Regatta, 1885-1895, wood engraving; black on yellow illustration of spectators and rowing race and a black minstrel; printed vertically on sides "A DARK SECRET", and at top "MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE EXTRA TRAIN SPECIAL RATES"; various advertisements for excursion to Manchester, Thursday, Eve., Sept. 19, The Greatest of Melo-Dramatic Productions with its Marvelous Aquatic Scenes, oarsman George H. Hosmer, American acrobats the Herbert Brothers, etc.