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Harvard Theatre Collection

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Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Harvard Theatre Collection clippings on circus acts and Shakespeare

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2006MT-43
Scope and Contents:

Includes material on circus acts, Ringling Circus, and Shakespeare.

Harvard Theatre Collection collected documents concerning Vauxhall Gardens

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-350
Scope and Contents:

Draft of manuscript contract (1728) and printed broadside describing sale of the property (1860).

Harvard Theatre Collection collected photographs and programs for shows by Orville K. Larson

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-324
Summary:

Includes photographs of Larson. There are approximately 1-3 items in each envelope.

Harvard Theatre Collection collected scripts of plays

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-364
Scope and Contents:

Typescript plays by various authors, including: Alfred Lys Baldry, C. Lafont, Dorothy Leighton, Cyril Twyford, and Herman Vezin. Also with an autograph manuscript of La lune rousse by F. Burillon and a script by an unknown author.

Harvard Theatre Collection collection of materials related to Noel Coward's Hay fever: a play in three acts

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2003MT-179
Summary:

1925 box includes: paper cover copy of play (London: Ernest Benn Ltd), French Acting Edition, 1927; clippings; and promotional material. 1964 box includes: 2 copies of souvenir program from The National Theatre (one signed by Edith Adams); miscellaneous cast lists (one autographed by cast members); clippings; a letter to Mrs. Robert Graff.

Harvard Theatre Collection dance scene photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 36
Overview:

Contains mainly black-and-white photographs of dance production scenes, mostly from the latter half of the twentieth century.

Harvard Theatre Collection of benefit playbills

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 619
Summary:

Playbills from benefit nights for various beneficiaries held at theaters in London and provincial towns.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Bushnell Prompter programs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: MS Thr 1956
Overview:

Contains programs from the Bushnell Prompter, now known as the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Caramoor Festival programs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 1957
Overview:

Contains programs from the Caramoor Festival, held in Katonah, New York, from 1993-1999.

Harvard Theatre Collection of carte-de-visites of Washburn's Last Sensation performers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: MS Thr 2041
Overview:

Contains six photographs of performers from the nineteenth century traveling show Washburn's Last Sensation.

Harvard Theatre Collection of cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of female opera musicians

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 25
Overview:

Contains cartes-de-visite photographs collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Harvard Theatre Collection of cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of male opera musicians

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 26
Overview:

Contains cartes-de-visite photographs collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Harvard Theatre Collection of clippings on persons in the theater

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC Clippings 14
Overview:

Contains clippings collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Harvard Theatre Collection of clippings on theater-related subjects

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC Clippings 6
Scope and Contents:

News clippings and other ephemeral material concerning theatrical subjects taken from American and British newspapers and various other sources.

Harvard Theatre Collection of clippings on theatrical productions

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC Clippings 13
Overview:

Contains clippings collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Covent Garden Theatre playbills

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 755

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance organization photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 35
Overview:

This series includes photographs concerning dance organizations that are primarily 8 x 10, but might be other variant sizes. Contains formal publicity photographs, rehearsal photographs, etc. Some have organization names printed on them.

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance periodicals

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 2Identifier: 2006MT-74
Scope and Contents:

Dance periodicals, a small group of programs, and dance ephemera.

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance portrait photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 34
Overview:

Includes portrait and group portrait photographs of dancers.

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance portrait prints (visual works)

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 50
Overview:

Contains portrait prints of dancers.

Harvard Theatre Collection of English playbills printed on silk

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Folder 1Identifier: MS Thr 811
Summary:

15 silk playbills from various theaters in England, three from the Woburn Abbey Theatre, four from the Olympic Theatre.

Harvard Theatre Collection of figurines

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2066
Overview:

Collection of figurines relating to theatre and dance, especially ballet.

Harvard Theatre Collection of film still scene photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 37
Overview:

Contains film stills collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

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Subject
Photographs. 3
Theater programs. 3
Clippings. 2
Playbills. 2
Plays. 2
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Popular music. 2
Scores. 2
Scripts (documents). 2
Songs. 2
Theater -- England -- 19th century. 2
Theater -- Periodicals. 2
Vocal scores. 2
Acrobatics 1
Acrobats 1
Actors -- England -- 19th century. 1
African American actors 1
Blackface minstrelsy 1
Broadsides. 1
Cabinet photographs. 1
Choruses. 1
Circus 1
Circus -- Periodicals. 1
Circus -- Posters. 1
Circus animals 1
Circus animals in art 1
Circus performers -- 20th century 1
Commedia dell'arte 1
Contracts. 1
Dance -- Periodicals. 1
Diorama 1
Drag performance 1
Drawings (visual works) 1
Figurines. 1
Folk songs. 1
Freak shows -- United States -- History 1
Group portraits 1
Harvard graduates' papers. 1
Instrumental music. 1
Latvia. 1
London (England) -- Theater -- 18th century. 1
London (England) -- Theater -- 19th century. 1
Maine -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
Male dancers 1
Medicine shows 1
Menageries 1
Minstrel music 1
Minstrel shows 1
Musicals -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano. 1
Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano. 1
Pageants 1
Pantomime 1
Pantomimes. 1
Patriotism -- Songs and music. 1
People with disabilities and the performing arts 1
Phonograph records. 1
Playbills -- 19th century. 1
Playbills -- British Isles -- 18th century. 1
Playbills -- British Isles -- 19th century. 1
Poland. 1
Popular music -- United States -- 19th century 1
Porcelain 1
Portraits 1
Portraits -- Theater. 1
Processions 1
Promptbooks -- 19th century. 1
Revolutionary ballads and songs, Ukrainian. 1
Robots 1
Russia. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Sheet music 1
Sideshows 1
Stereoscopic photographs 1
Tableaux 1
Tenors (Singers) 1
Theater -- 19th century 1
Theater -- 19th century. 1
Theater -- 20th century 1
Theater -- Boston (Mass.) 1
Theater -- England -- 18th century. 1
Theater -- France -- Periodicals. 1
Theater -- France. 1
Theatre arts 1
Traveling theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Ukraine. 1
United States. 1
Wild west shows 1
Women circus performers in art 1
Women dancers 1
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