[Theatre programmes]
Published: 1885
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Description: Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including Madison Square Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, Palmer's Theatre in New York, the Grand Opera House in Baltimore, The Boston Theatre in Boston, Mass. Includes programs for performances by The Rouge et Blanc Club of Baltimore, E.H. Sothern, Rice's Surprise Party, John Drew, Digby Bell Opera Company, Henry E. Dixey, Rice's Big Burlesque Co. and others. Includes programs for performances of plays and entertainments written by Sir Charles L. Young, Henry Arthur Jones, Alfred Baldwin Sloane, Elisabeth Marbury, Victorien Sardou, Abby Sage Richardson, A.W. Pinero, Marguerite Merington, George R. Sims, Cecil Raleigh, Henry Pettitt, Sir Augustus Harris, Bronson Howard, Oscar Wilde, R.A. Barnet, Carl Pflueger, Alexandre Bisson, Albert Carre, Clyde Fitch, Harry B. Smith and Julian Edwards.
Notes: Title devised by Library staff.

With: Gribouille / H. Carnoy. Paris : Maison Quantin, [1884?]. (15 p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.). Bound together subsequent to publication.

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: Rice's Surprise Party "1492" (May 29-June 3, 1893), Henry E. Dixey, Rice's Big Burlesque Co. in "Adonis" (May 7-12, 1894)

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." Spine with title wanting, uniformly bound with other volumes. 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: "Jim, the Penman" (1886); title: "Saints and Sinners" (1885); title: "Midas" (1895); title: "Merry Gotham" (1892); title: "Americans Abroad" (1893); title: "Sweet Lavender" (1894); title: "The Amazons" (1894); title: "Capt. Lettarblair" (1892); title: "The Grey Mare" (1892); title: "Burmah" (1895); title: "Aristocracy" (1892); title: "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1893); title: "1492" (1893); title: "The Masked Ball" (1892); title: "Jupiter" (1892); title: "Adonis" (1894).