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Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...

Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January 19th, 1892.

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...

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Rachel. A Play in Three Acts. Angelina W. Grimke, 1880–1958

Rachel. A Play in Three Acts.

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

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Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ......

Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme ...

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

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Cornell Minstrels [...] Dec. 10, 1888. Base Ball Benefit. Cornell Minstrels

Cornell Minstrels [...] Dec. 10, 1888. Base Ball Benefit.

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

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The Negro in the American Theatre. Edith J. R. Isaacs

The Negro in the American Theatre.

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

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History of the Hanus Family’s Association with the Theater and Show Business 1878–1961 [cover...

History of the Hanus Family’s Association with the Theater and Show Business 1878–1961 [cover title].

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...

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Four c.1910s Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Haas Robins, American Stage and Film Actor,...

[Four c.1910s Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Haas Robins, American Stage and Film Actor, Canadian Film Producer, and Leader of The Robins Players Theater Company].

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,...

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The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest,...

The Government of the Edwin Forrest Home, Comprising the List of Officers, Will Of Edwin Forrest, Act of Incorporation, By-Laws of the Board, and Application for Admission.

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,...

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Kingsway Theatre Menu Card celebrating the 500th Performance of George Bernard Shaw’s...

[Kingsway Theatre Menu Card celebrating the 500th Performance of George Bernard Shaw’s Suffragette Comedy “Fanny’s First Play”; Signed by Shaw, Shaw’s Wife, Theatre Managers Lillah McCarthy and Harley Granville-Barker, and almost the Entire Cast].

Menu card celebrating the 500th performance of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s greatest first-run success, Fanny’s First Play, signed by Shaw, Shaw’s wife, theatre managers..... Read More about Kingsway Theatre Menu Card celebrating the 500th Performance of George Bernard Shaw’s...

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Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte...

Germania-Theater. 528–532 Nord Dritte Strasse…Donnerstag den 17. Sept….Eine Leichte Person…

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…

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The Program of “1776” presented by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University [opening...

The Program of “1776” presented by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University [opening lines of 1926 broadside].

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...

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Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell, the Pet of Poker Flat. A Drama in Prologue and Three Acts. J...

Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell, the Pet of Poker Flat. A Drama in Prologue and Three Acts.

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

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New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown. Jno. Henry Martin, H. Pruett...

New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown.

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

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Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux. “Le...

Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux.

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

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Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......

[Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ... Cheyney Normal School, Chester High School Dunbar Society.

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 ......

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Stage Actress and Singer Pauline Hall Cabinet Card Photograph]. Mora, José Maria,...

[Stage Actress and Singer Pauline Hall Cabinet Card Photograph].

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

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Theatre Royal, Cheltenham. Their Majesties, the Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta and the...

Theatre Royal, Cheltenham. Their Majesties, the Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta and the Princess Elizabeth, Having thrice honoured Mr. Watson…with their Presence…signified their Royal Intention of returning to Windsor and London…the following DUTIFUL and LOYAL FAREWELL, WAS SPOKEN BY MR. CHARLTON…On FRIDAY the 15TH AUGUST, 1788…

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...

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]. Julian...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]

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

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The Field God and In Abraham’s Bosom [Inscribed Copy]. Paul Green

The Field God and In Abraham’s Bosom [Inscribed Copy]

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

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M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”. Philip K. Bates, G. Elbern Hopkins

[M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”

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.”

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Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn. [chromolithographic theatrical poster for a burlesque player and leading...

Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn. [chromolithographic theatrical poster for a burlesque player and leading actress in a cross-dressing role]

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...

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Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot...

Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot Witness…March 21, 1876… [opening lines of broadside].

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...

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Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny...

[Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny Wilson…Comfortable Balcony for Colored.

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...

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Machinal. [play typescript]. Sophie Treadwell, 1885?–1970

Machinal. [play typescript]

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

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The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...

The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical entertainments…

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...

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