Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
![New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban....](/images/noimage-req.png)
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958), African-American female poet, reclusive celibate lesbian, born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong social and community connections to..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
![Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ......](/pictures/thumb/3725651_1.jpg?v=1534362314)
Robert Charles Benchley (1889–1989) honed and developed his skills as a humorist and actor while at Harvard (Class of 1912). Benchley was an active, and... Read More about Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme
![For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play...](/pictures/thumb/3728228_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
Pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play For His Brother’s Crime. The romantic melodrama concerns the travails of twin brothers, Victor and Ben..... Read More about For His Brother’s Crime. A Novel Founded Upon the Melodrama of the Same Name. [within:] Play...
![Cornell Minstrels [...] Dec. 10, 1888. Base Ball Benefit. Cornell Minstrels](/pictures/thumb/3726496_1.jpg?v=1534362395)
Founded in 1872, the Cornelian Minstrels was the first dramatic club organized at Cornell University. Performing in 1888 as “The Cornell Minstrels,” they joined with... Read More about Cornell Minstrels [...] Dec. 10, 1888. Base Ball Benefit
![Beauty and the Beast [Manuscript prompt]. Julia Corner, 1798–1875](/pictures/thumb/145838_1.jpg?v=1534362280)
Manuscript prompt, with American provenance, of a children’s drama based upon the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast as adapted by Julia Corner. Corner..... Read More about Beauty and the Beast [Manuscript prompt
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
History of the Hanus theater operation and show business family of Antigo, Wisconsin. The history was compiled c.1979 by Edmund Hanus from contemporary newspaper, magazine... Read More about History of the Hanus Family’s Association with the Theater and Show Business 1878–1961 [cover...
Edward Haas Robins, Actor In 1880, American stage and film actor Edward Haas Robins was born as Edward Haas in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Around 1909, after... Read More about Four c.1910s Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Haas Robins, American Stage and Film Actor,...
Unrecorded 1902 sewn pamphlet describing the function and purpose of the Edwin Forrest Home in Philadelphia located at 4849 Parkside avenue. The Home was established... Read More about The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest,...
Unrecorded hand-colored illustrated broadside—large—advertising the humorous short story “Shorty and the Count” first published in 1878 in the 19th century juvenile dime novel series The..... Read More about Shorty and the Count: or the Two Great Unmashed. Commences this week in the Boss Boys’ Paper of...
The Germania Theater in Philadelphia was founded in 1877 by Gottlob Hammer and Heinrich Oberkirsch. The theater served a thriving German-speaking community until 1895 — a remarkable... Read More about Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte Person…
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on A.H. Wood’s play Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. The melodrama concerns a young single woman’s struggle..... Read More about Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name....
Exhaustive study of Daniel Decatur Emmett, banjoist, fiddler, singer, composer and lyricist, comedian and playwright. Nathan’s book combines musicology, biography, and history to situate Emmett’s..... Read More about Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy
Very pleasing example of one of Dick & Fitzgerald’s 25¢ “Western Plays.” Crawford’s Claim is the tale of heroine Nugget Nell, a Western mining claim..... Read More about Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell, the Pet of Poker Flat. A Drama in Prologue and Three Acts
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
Beautiful portrait of comic actress and light opera singer Pauline Hall (1860–1919), here photographed by New York celebrity photographer, José Maria Mora (1850–1926).¹ Hall is..... Read More about Stage Actress and Singer Pauline Hall Cabinet Card Photograph
Inscribed and signed by Paul Green and dated in the year of publication, 1927. Paul Green (17 March 1894–04 May 1981), playwright and champion of... Read More about The Field God and In Abraham’s Bosom [Inscribed Copy
![M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”. Philip K. Bates, G. Elbern Hopkins](/pictures/thumb/3727733_1.jpg?v=1538508662)
Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including... Read More about M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”
Dating from the first decade of Nebraska statehood, this unrecorded 1876 theatrical broadside from Schuyler, Colfax County engages the reader right from the start: Sidewalks!... Read More about Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot...
![Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny...](/pictures/thumb/3728398_1.jpg?v=1548871661)
1952 Segregation-era movie theater poster for Frank Sinatra’s film Meet Danny Wilson, co-starring Shelly Winters and Alex Nicol. A legend at the bottom of the..... Read More about Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny...
![Archive of Photographs of the Todd Sisters, 1930s-era Show Girls.]. The Todd Sisters](/pictures/thumb/3726587_1.jpg?v=1534362417)
This collection of sixty-four vernacular photographs is a visual record of the Todd Sisters, show girls. We find little about their career, but we do... Read More about Archive of Photographs of the Todd Sisters, 1930s-era Show Girls
![Union Vodvil 1920. [Vaudeville]. The Union Board, of The Union Memorial Building](/pictures/thumb/3727556_1.jpg?v=1540246016)
1920 program for a “Vodvil” or vaudeville show produced at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to raise funds to build the campus’ Union Memorial Building. The..... Read More about Union Vodvil 1920. [Vaudeville
With a phenomenal trick dancer, a July 1931 program for Copenhagen, Denmark’s “Valencia” dance hall with half tone illustrations of the dancing and other vaudeville-style..... Read More about Program Valencia Skandinaviens fornereste Varieté. og Danse-Palads
