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Poster for Mr. Wilson's benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century., featuring Hannah Astley in the hippodramaEquestrian pantomime, often with a military subject matter, very popular in mid-nineteenth-century urban circuses. Ferdinand of Spain; Or Ancient Chivalry (July 29, 1813) — Private Collection

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