Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Playscripts, Prompt Books, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Broadway, Burlesque, Pantomime, Opera, Ballet, Dance, Musical Theater, Circus, Carnivals, Wax Museums, Magic Shows, Wild West Shows, Rodeos, Parades, Amusement Parks and Popular Amusements, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Playscripts, Prompt Books, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Broadway, Burlesque, Pantomime, Opera, Ballet, Dance, Musical Theater, Circus, Carnivals, Wax Museums, Magic Shows, Wild West Shows, Rodeos, Parades, Amusement Parks and Popular Amusements, Etc.
![Big Blow [Federal Theatre (Works Progress Administration]. Theodore Pratt, 1901–1969](/images/noimage-req.png)
Program for the play Big Blow set in Florida’s hurricane country. The show was produced by the Federal Theatre program under the sponsorship of the..... Read More about Big Blow [Federal Theatre (Works Progress Administration
Survey of the architectural, theatrical, and commercial design work of David Rockwell (b.1956) and his New York-based Rockwell Group. This copy inscribed by Rockwell. Among..... Read More about What If…? The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell. [signed by the architect and designer
This lecture ticket admitted a whole family to Col. Pierce’s Lecture. John Harwood Pierce (1848–1925) led a full and exciting life, gaining fame as a...... Read More about 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John Harwood Pierce
Souvenir of “Little Miracle Town” an attraction at the 1939 New York World’s Fair featuring a village and a theatrical production performed by little persons..... Read More about Morris Gest’s Little Miracle Town with the World’s Greatest Midget Artistes. New York...
![Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...](/pictures/thumb/3730582_1.jpg?v=1624502594)
Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
Playscript for a farce first produced at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1825. Also known as More Blunders Than One, Or, the Irish Valet, the..... Read More about More Blunders than One. A Farce.—-In one Act [Series title: “Spencer’s Boston Theatre.”
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
![When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]. Julian...](/pictures/thumb/3730089_1.jpg?v=1614648605)
From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
Brilliant poster for Rose Coghlan (1851–1932), Gilded Age burlesque player and leading actress, here in a female-to-male cross-dressing role in the romantic play Jocelyn set..... Read More about Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn. [chromolithographic theatrical poster for a burlesque player and leading...
![C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3729892_1.jpg?v=1609099677)
Medium-format tintype studio portrait of a Western woman wearing a kimono and holding a large folding Japanese fan behind her head. Studio props in the..... Read More about C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume
![Machinal. [play typescript]. Sophie Treadwell, 1885?–1970](/pictures/thumb/3729309_1.jpg?v=1600902488)
Original typescript for an adaptation of the important 1928 expressionist play Machinal by American journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell (1885?–1970). The play dramatizes the life..... Read More about Machinal. [play typescript
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
Rare and unlocated. Eighteenth century satin silk broadside recording a Royal visit to Cheltenham in 1788. Goding’s Norman’s History of Cheltenham (pp342–343) describes the pageantry..... Read More about Theatre Royal, Cheltenham. Their Majesties, the Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta and the...
Rare and unrecorded souvenir program for a Grand Parada and Carnival of Opera—staged selections from popular operas and tableaux vivants—presented under the direction of Capt..... Read More about The Grand Parada and Carnival of Opera. Under the Auspices of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the...
Sheet music for the song “Savage Serenade,” about a Caribbean island celebration, a musical number featured in the 1933 Broadway musical / murder mystery, Murder..... Read More about Savage Serenade from Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities, a Dramatic Mystery Comedy by...
![Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......](/pictures/thumb/3727448_1.jpg?v=1586277004)
Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
Rare title ostensibly offering travelers’ advice on visiting and organized coach itineraries of New York City, but whose main purpose was to promote performances of..... Read More about New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown
Theatre broadside presenting the program for 1776. Presented by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University, at the Academy of Music in the town of..... Read More about The Program of “1776” presented by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University [opening...
Three broadsides issued by Mahan Brothers’ Trained Animals of Charlton, Massachusetts for three separate performances of trained animals at the 1897 Vermont and New Hampshire..... Read More about Be Sure and See! Mahan’s Performing Patagonian Dogs, Only Dogs of this Kind Ever Trained…...
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title
A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform..... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man
Handsome concert announcement broadside for the popular Shaw Sisters of Philadelphia. The broadside as two blank spaces for location and date to be handwritten. The..... Read More about The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening lines...
A celebration of the achievements of the African American actor on the American theatre stage, pre-1890 to 1945. Illustrated with wonderful photographs. New York: Theatre..... Read More about The Negro in the American Theatre
C.1892 French chromolithographic poster for Le Pays de l’Or [The Golden or Promised Land], a comic operetta and spectacle set in America including the Western..... Read More about Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux
![Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897. Dunklee,...](/pictures/thumb/3727798_1.jpg?v=1540853604)
Rare photographic souvenir album with 35 mounted albumen photographs documenting a coaching parade and fair held in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the county seat of Franklin County..... Read More about Massachusetts Photography:] Souvenir of the Coaching Parade, Greenfield 1897
