[Music hall bills of the Royal Hippodrome, Belfast and the Theatre Royal Hippodrome and Winter Gardens, Dublin.]
Contributors: Theatre Royal Hippodrome (Dublin, Ireland); Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1923
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Playbills; Theatre Royal Hippodrome (Dublin, Ireland); Music-halls; Royal Hippodrome (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Description: Each bill is in a mylar folder and are accompanied by the wrap or envelope (not in item count) in which it was originally sent.  Many were in packets of 2 or 3 bills, which have been kept in the same mylar folder.  Included for each year is a folder of wraps and envelopes which were found separated from their contents.
Notes: Collection title devised by cataloger.

Contents list in each folder.

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

The Royal Hippodrome in Belfast opened in 1907 and was demolished in 1996.  The Theatre Royal Hippodrome in Dublin was the second Theatre Royal built on the same site in Hawkins Street; this one opened in 1897.  The name was changed to Theatre Royal Hippodrome during its variety years, and was demolished in 1934.  The Winter Gardens was a building next door to the Hippodrome.  These bills were sent to Harry Houdini by an unidentified person.