Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties .
A theatre programme issued by the Grand Opera House in London, Ontario, in 1895, printed for its patrons and promoting the Gus Hill's Novelties show. The pictures are not theatrical; they are newspaper advertisements from a Victorian Canadian paper, set in plain serif type with ornamental rules, a cigar advertisement with a top-hatted man, a grocery heading, a champagne label display, and a free-pictures offer. A designer might borrow the dense, boxed advertising layouts and the mixed display lettering for period-styled posters.
![Picture 1 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 6](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-6-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 11](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-11-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-12-0.webp)
![Picture 4 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 12](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-12-1.webp)
![Picture 5 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 13](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-13-0.webp)
![Picture 6 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 16](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-16-0.webp)
![Picture 7 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 17](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-17-0.webp)
![Picture 8 of 8 from Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [microform] : Monday, March 25th, 12th year of the attraction with a record, Gus Hill's Novelties . (1895), leaf 19](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cihm_57608-19-0.webp)