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Travel by Water and Road

 
  Broadside for Marietta Ravel
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  Broadside for Marietta Ravel tour performances at the Academy of Music, Pittsburgh, December 26, 1866
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division

The Ravel and Martinetti Families of slack- and tightrope dancers were the stars of the Mississippi and Missouri River port city circuits. This broadside promotes The French Spy and The Wizard Skiff, two popular pantomimes in the Ravel repertory.

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