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 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.

 

Theatre & Amusements

Theatre & Amusements

 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.

 

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3733093] Chrononhotonthologos : The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any Company...

Chrononhotonthologos : The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any Company of Tragedians. (First American edition)

First American edition of an 18th-century play by British songwriter and poet Henry Carey (1687–1743). This copy stitched and untrimmed, in its as-issued state. The..... Read More about Chrononhotonthologos : The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by any Company of...

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3732009] [The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873...

[The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional Ephemera].

An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...

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3731997] Kwamina. The New Musical. Afred de Liagre Jr

Kwamina. The New Musical.

This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical

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3731996] A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women

A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women.

The New York Times described the event thus: “Women will be whooping it up tonight at 9 in the Manhattan Theater Club, 321 East 73d..... Read More about A Circle of Sound. An Evening of Songs Composed and Sung by Women

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3731920] The Book of Job Arranged and Produced by Stuart Walker. Stuart Walker, 1888–1941

The Book of Job Arranged and Produced by Stuart Walker.

Ephemera for a special Bryn Mawr Alumnae benefit performance of Stuart Walker’s stage production of The Book of Job, the first English-language dramatization of the..... Read More about The Book of Job Arranged and Produced by Stuart Walker

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3731388] Behind a Watteau Picture. A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act. Robert Emmons Rogers

Behind a Watteau Picture. A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act.

Robert Emmons Rogers, the playwright, was graduated by Harvard College and his play debuted in St. Louis and was later performed at the Greenwich Village..... Read More about Behind a Watteau Picture. A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act

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3730588] Big Blow [Federal Theatre, Works Progress Administration]. Theodore Pratt, 1901–1969

Big Blow [Federal Theatre, Works Progress Administration]

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

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3731052] What If…? The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell. (Signed by the architect and...

What If…? The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell. (Signed by the architect and designer)

First edition and inscribed by Rockwell. Survey of the architectural, theatrical, and commercial design work of David Rockwell (b.1956) and his New York-based Rockwell Group..... Read More about What If…? The Architecture and Design of David Rockwell. (Signed by the architect and designer

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3730624] 25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John...

25 cts..Family Ticket..25 cts. [ticket for a lecture by Western frontier showman John Harwood Pierce].

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

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3730582] [Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross...

[Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents St. Louis Woman.

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...

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3730577] More Blunders than One. A Farce.—-In one Act [Series title: “Spencer’s Boston...

More Blunders than One. A Farce.—-In one Act [Series title: “Spencer’s Boston Theatre.”]

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.”

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3730089] When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover...

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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3729888] Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn. Rose Coghlan, 1851–1932, 1842–1899, Charles F. Coghlan

Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn.

Brilliant chromolithographic poster for Rose Coghlan (1851–1932), Gilded Age burlesque performer, starring in the romantic play Jocelyn. Coghlan is featured on the poster disguised as..... Read More about Rose Coghlan as Jocelyn

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3729892] [C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume]. Unk

[C.1880s–1890s Tintype Photograph of a Western Woman in Japanese Costume].

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

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3729309] 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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3729263] The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their...

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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144984] Theatre Royal, Cheltenham. Their Majesties, the Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta and...

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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3729691] The Grand Parada and Carnival of Opera. Under the Auspices of the Woman’s Auxiliary to...

The Grand Parada and Carnival of Opera. Under the Auspices of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Phoenixville Hospital. [cover title of souvenir program; Phoenixville, Pennsylvania]

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...

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3729658] Savage Serenade from Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities, a Dramatic Mystery Comedy...

Savage Serenade from Earl Carroll’s Murder at the Vanities, a Dramatic Mystery Comedy by Carroll and Rufus King. [sheet music]

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...

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3728454] New York in Ten Tours, Including Hoyt’s A Trip to Chinatown. Jno. Henry Martin, H....

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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3729070] The Program of “1776” presented by the Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard University...

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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3728988] Be Sure and See! Mahan’s Performing Patagonian Dogs, Only Dogs of this Kind Ever...

Be Sure and See! Mahan’s Performing Patagonian Dogs, Only Dogs of this Kind Ever Trained… [opening lines of one of three broadsides plus a circular letter from Mahan Brothers’ Trained Animals]

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…...

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3728735] The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau

The Eastern Girls [cover title].

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

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3728734] Songs and Stories of the Red Man. The Eastern Lyceum Bureau, Albert Gale, Martha Gale

Songs and Stories of the Red Man.

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

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3728750] The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening...

The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening lines of broadside].

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...

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