Lottery of life
Contributors: Howard Athenaeum; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1867
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: Howard Athenaeum. John Brogham in his successful sensational drama, the "Lottery of Life" this evening.
Notes: Howard Athenaeum, this evening [sometime between opening on 23 September 1867 and March 9, 1868].

Title devised by Library staff.

"Ledger job print, Phila.".

The "Lottery of Life" opened at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston on September 23, 1867. John Brogham then performed at Wallack's Theatre in New York in June of 1868. Cf. Club of Odd Volumes.  Exhibition of prints and playbills to illustrate the history of the Boston stage, 1825-1850, 1915, p. 87.

LC copy has handwritten note in ink on verso: "No. 200. Filed March 9, 1868, Joseph E. Jackson, Propr."

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).