• A late photograph of Lizzie Evans, run in the Democratic Banner in Mount Vernon in 1919. The accompanying article identifies Evans as being the niece of Anna Evans of Mount Vernon.

  • The poster from the melodramatic musical by Charles E. Callahan that made Lizzie Evans famous. She played the ferryman’s daughter, seen in the central vignette on the poster dipping her toes in the water. To make sure no one misses the star, her character name, “Chip,” is even written on the boat.

  • Lizzie Evans, a nationally famous comedienne of the late 1800s and early 1900s, was born in Mount Vernon.

  • Lizzie Evans in a promotional photo on Broadway.

  • Lizzie Evans, photographed early in her career. Though she got her start on stage in the late 1870s, Evans shot to national fame in 1883.

  • An advertisement for a performance of “The Bat” to take place at the Manring Theater in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in October of 1923.

  • Lizzie Evans, photographed early in her career. Though she got her start on stage in the late 1870s, Evans shot to national fame in 1883.