[Album of photographs of the Oedipus tyrannus of Sophocles
Subtitle: presented in Greek at Sanders theatre, Harvard university, May 1881
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: The prelim. leaf contains a printed poem "To Charles Eliot Norton, Esquire", signed & dated "H.N. Cambridge, November, 1881"; this is followed by 2 photographs of the exterior & interior of Sanders theatre, 1 group portrait of the producers & actors in the play, & 19 leaves of individual portraits; the final 14 leaves are the same mounted photographs as those published with title "Scenes from Oedipus the king as performed at Harvard in May 1881 photographed with the electric light by James Notman". Notman probably took the other photographs in this made-up collection as well.

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Tipped in at front are an autograph letter signed (Henry Norman to C.E. Norton, Cambridge, 13 November 1881); 1 sheet (3 unnumbered pages) presenting the album; a printed programme of the performance; a review of the performance by H.W. Mabie, clipped from The Christian union, 25 May 1881; and a printed program and photograph of the performance of Aeschylus's Agamemnon at Harvard in June 1906.

Full red morocco; edges gilt.