Book/Printed Material Collection Theatre programmes

Title

• Theatre programmes

Summary

• Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including Garden Theatre, Proctor's Theatre in New York, the Academy of Music and the New National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Includes programs for performances by Cora Tanner, Richard Mansfield, Edward Lloyd, Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, Francis Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, the Famous Bostonians, Felix Morris, Charles Frohman's Comedians, Lillian Russell, Jennie Yeamans, Wilson Barrett, Rose Coghlan, James K. Hackett, Peter F. Dailey, Old Hoss Bill Hoey, John C. Rice, Julia Marlowe Taber, Wm. H. Crane, James T. Powers, Roland Reed, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Fanny Davenport, Sol Smith Russell, E.H. Sothern and others.

Names

• Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1892-1895.

Contents

• Theater programs and playbills: "Hearts" (1892) -- "Husband and Wife, or, The Tiger Lillies' Club" (1892) -- "Ten Thousand a Year" [1892] -- "The English Rose" [1892] -- "Beau Brummell" [1892] -- "Parisian Romance" [1892] -- "Lew Dockstader's Minstrels" (1894) -- "A Temperance Town" (1894) -- "Erminie" (1894) -- "The Prodigal Daughter" (1894) -- "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" (1894) -- "A Texas Steer" (1894) -- "Robin Hood" (1894) -- "The Old Musician" (1894) -- "The Paper Chase" (1894) -- "Mr. Wilkinson's Widows" (1894) -- "The Princess Nicotine" (1894) -- "Jane" (1894) -- "Chums" (1894) -- "Hamlet" (1894) -- "A Woman of No Importance" (1894) -- "The Private Secretary" (1894) -- "A Country Sport" (1895) -- "The Flams" (1895) -- "Romeo and Juliet" (1895) -- "The Senator" (1895) -- "His Wife's Father" (1895) -- "A Scrap of Paper" (1895) -- "A Texas Steer" (1895) -- "The New Boy" (1894) -- "The Ironmaster" (1895) -- "The Politician" (1895) -- "Merry Wives of Windsor" (1895) -- "Charley's Aunt" (1895) -- "Cricket on the Hearth" (1894) -- "Lend Me Five Shillings" (1894) -- "The Passing Show" (1894) -- "The Taming of the Shrew" (1895) -- "Gismonda" (1895) -- "Impulse" (1895) -- "Heart of Ruby" (1895) -- "Love on Crutches" (1895) -- "Nancy and Company" (1895) -- "The Heir-at-Law" (1895) -- "The Honeymoon" (1895) -- "A Poor Relation" (1895) -- "The Princess Bonnie" (1895) -- "Capt. Lettarblair" (1895).

Headings

• -  Theater programs--Specimens
• -  United States--District of Columbia--Washington
• -  United States--New York--New York

Genre

• Theater programs--1892
• Theater programs--1894
• Theater programs--1895
• Theater programs--New York (State)--New York
• Theater programs--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  "Theatre programme[s]. E.W.W."--Spine.
• -  Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by W. Echard Golden, F.C. Philips, Percy Fendall, Emma V. Sheridan, Geo. R. Sims, Rob't Buchanan, Clyde Fitch, Richard Mansfield, Octave Feuillet, Charles H. Hoyt, Harry Paulton, Edward Jakobowski, Henry Pettitt, Sir Augustus Harris, A.W. Pinero, Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, Felix Morris, Charles Thomas, Alexandre Bisson, William Gilette, Charles Alfred Byrne, Louis Harrisson, William Furst, Harry Nichols, W. Lestocq, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John J. McNally, Harry and Edward Paulton, David D. Lloyd, Sydney Rosenfeld, Martha Morton, J. Palgrave Simpson, Victorien Sardou, Arthur Law, George Ohnet, Brandon Thomas, Charles Dickens, Albert Smith, John Maddison Morton, Ludwig Englander. B.C. Stephenson, Judith Gautier, Huntly McCarthy, Augustin Daly, Heinrich Stobitzer, Julius Rosen, George Coleman, the younger, John Tobin, Edward Kidder, Willard Spencer and Marguerite Merington.
• -  Spine title.
• -  A portion of these items are available online on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Printed inventory card file arranged alphabetically by title available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reading Room: item level control.
• -  LC copy: "Source unknown 67." Some programs have duplicates.
• -  In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
• -  Converted from American Memory Variety Stage pseudomarc
• -  Thr. P5

Medium

• 1 v. ([49] items) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• Thr. P5

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.bram64
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/varspbk.bram6a

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2011507815

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2011507815

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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