# Geraldine Ulmar in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado

- By: Benjamin Joseph Falk / Adam Cuerden
- Date: late 1885 or 1886
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: New York Public Library
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geraldine_Ulmar_in_Gilbert_and_Sullivan%27s_The_Mikado.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/a/a0/Geraldine_Ulmar_in_Gilbert_and_Sullivan%27s_The_Mikado.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Geraldine Ulmar, as Yum-Yum in The Mikado, American production of August 1885 to May 1886 or slightly later. Falk gives it a "Copyright 1896", so probably a bit later in the run.

The bottom of this one is slightly cut off. An alternate copy here shows the bit of the cabinet card that was cut.

There's some evidence of (1886-era) editing around where she's sitting on the moon. Possibly evidence of a montage, might just be retouching - certainly the outer space scene looks enhanced.. I didn't edit that part too much to avoid misleading.

Text on image:

Copyrighted 1886 by B. J. Falk, N.Y. \[on photo, lower left\]

Copyright 1886 by B. J. Falk \[Just below photo, justified right\]

GERALDINE ULMAR as Yum - Yum

"We're very wide awake, the moon and I."

Falk \[signature, partially cut through on this copy\]

949 Broadway, N.Y. \[in the cut off section found on the Museum of the City of New York copy, justified right\]