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Harvard Theatre Collection

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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 sheet music by topic

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 90
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, many with illustrated covers, organized by topic.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Ukrainian sheet music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2015T-187
Summary:

Ukrainian sheet music, in popular and folk idioms; chiefly for voice and piano, some for chorus, some instrumental.

Music published in New York, Jersey City (N.J.), L'viv (Poland, then Ukraine), Ternopilʹ (Ukraine), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Kiev (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland), and Riga (Latvia); primary publishers include Smolensky (New York) and Torban (L'viv).

Some texts by Taras Shevchenko.

Harvard Theatre Collection popular entertainment playbills, posters, prints, and clippings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1835
Overview:

Contains depictions of popular entertainment including circuses, equestrian and acrobatic acts, automata, processions, pageants, tableaux, puppetry, commedia dell'arte, Harlequinade and pantomime, and burlesque performances, including advertisements, playbills, posters, programs, printed illustrations, and newspaper clippings.

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