Theatre programmes
Published: 1892
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Description: Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including Herald Square Theatre, Garden Theatre, Herrmann's Theatre, Hammerstein's Harlem Opera House, H.C. Miner's 5th Avenue Theatre, 14th Street Theatre, The Standard Theatre, Bijou Theatre, Union Square Theatre and the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre in New York. Includes programs for performances by Richard Mansfield, the Famous Bostonians, Helena Modjeska, Otis Skinner, Lillian Russell, Lillian Russell Opera Comique Company, Herrmann the Great, A.M. Palmer's Stock Company, Pauline Hall Opera Company, Nat C. Goodwin, Fanny Gillette, the Hanlon Brothers, Fanny Davenport, Lottie Collins, Russell's Comedians, John Stetson's Company of Players, Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew, the Lilliputians, Wm. B. Crane, Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Eleonora Duse, The Strollers and others. Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by George Bernard Shaw, Clyde Fitch, Richard Mansfield, A.C. Gunter, Octave Feuillet, Robert Louis Stevenson, Reginald DeKoven, Harry B. Smith, Washington Irving, William Shakespeare, Frederick Schiller, Louis Wingfield, Alfred Duro, Henri Chivot, F.C. Durnand, Edmond Audran, W.S. Gilbert, Alfred Cellier, Augustus Thomas, G.M.S. McLellan, Edgar Stillman Kelley, Henry Guy Carleton, Harry P. Mawson, Joseph Arthur, Victorien Sardou, Harry Nichols, W. Lestocq, John G. Wilson, Gustave Kerker, Alex Haig, Alexander Dumas fils, Louise I. Guiney, William Seymour, Emile Zola, Robert Breitenbach, Carl Joseph, Martha Morton, Chas. Alfred Byrne, Louis Harrison, W.W. Furst, Giovanni Verga, Carlo Goldoni, Edward Fales Coward, Frank C. Drake and Joseph Decker.
Notes: Spine title.

"Theatre programmes. [E.]W.W."--Spine.

Some individual programs are also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Digital Collections Web site: Variety Stage: Theater Playbills and Programs. Digitized versions of programs include: The Lilliputians in "Candy" (Oct. 31, 1892), "Herrmann the Great" (Oct. 3, 1892), "Herrmann the Great" (Oct. 31, 1892),The Hanlon Brothers in "Superba" (Jan. 7, 1893)

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).
Table of contents: title: Theater programs and playbills: "Arms and the Man" (1894); title: "Beau Brummell" (1894); title: "Prince Karl" (1894); title: "A Parisian Romance" (1894); title: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1894); title: "Robin Hood" (1893); title: "The Knickerbockers" (1893); title: "Henry VIII" (1892); title: "Mary Stuart" (1892); title: "Cigale" (1892); title: "The Mountebanks" (1893); title: "Herrmann the Great" (Oct. 3, 1892), "Herrmann the Great" (Oct. 31, 1892); title: "Alabama" (1892); title: "Puritania" (1892); title: "A Gilded Fool" (1892); title: "A Fair Rebel" (1892); title: "Blue Jeans" (1892); title: "Superba" (1893); title: "Robin Hood" (1894); title: "Cleopatra" (1892); title: "Jane" (1892); title: "A Society Fad" (1892); title: "The Crust of Society" (1892); title: "Therese" (1892); title: "Candy" (1892); title: "His Wife's Father" (1895); title: "The Isle of Champagne" (1893); title: "Camille" (1893); title: "Cavalleria Rusticana" (1893); title: "La Locandiera" (1893); title: "Hearts are Trumps" (1894); title: "Raspberry Shrub Sec." (1894); title: "Confusion" (1894); title: "His Better Half" (1894); title: "Specialties" (1894).