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Harvard Theatre Collection

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Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Harvard Theatre Collection original drawings collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1810
Overview:

Contains portrait, artist, scene, and theatre drawings and sketches related to theatrical and dance productions, collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Harvard Theatre Collection photocopies of New York City play review clippings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-226
Scope and Contents:

The plays that are the subject of the clippings were produced in New York, and most are undated.

Harvard Theatre Collection photograph collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC 2
Overview:

Collection created by the Harvard Theatre Collection of purchased or given photographs.

Harvard Theatre Collection playbills and programs from international theaters

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 70
Overview:

Contains printed playbills, programs, and a few posters from productions presented at theaters in countries other than the United States or Great Britain.

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.

Harvard Theatre Collection prints (visual works) of scenography

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 47
Overview:

Contains prints, mainly etchings, of theatrical designs dating from the late sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century.

Harvard Theatre Collection Sarah Bernhardt collection, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003MT-227
Summary:

Programs, clippings, folder of nine published play texts, and a souvenir album with clipings and programs. All materials concern actress Sarah Bernhardt.

Harvard Theatre Collection Shakespeare fantasy prints

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1821
Overview:

Contains prints depicting scenes from plays by William Shakespeare which are not related to any particular production.

Harvard Theatre Collection theatrical portrait prints (visual works)

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 43
Overview:

Contains portrait prints of actors, directors, producers, theatre owners and managers, musicians, composers, conductors, and literary figures, as well as circus and side show performers, owners, and managers.

Harvard Theatre Collection theatrical scene photomechanical prints

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 48
Overview:

Contains photomechanical prints from theatrical productions, mainly in England and the United States.

National and World’s Peace Jubilees and Music Festivals collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1837
Overview:

Contains programs, newspaper clippings, prints, photographs, plans, and souvenirs relating to two jubilees and music festivals held in Boston, the National Peace Jubilee and Music Festival in 1869 and the World’s Peace Jubilee and International Music Festival in 1872.

Robert Gould Shaw papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2006MT-270
Summary: Letters addressed to Shaw, mostly concerning the Harvard Theatre Collection, 1915-1927; and Shaw's partial typescript memoir, "Notes of my Boy-hood" describing his childhood in Maine and Boston in the 1850s and 1860s, written in 1924. Correspondents include George Pierce Baker, George M. Cohan, Gabrielle Enthoven, Minnie Maddern Fiske, and Wilhelm Gericke. All of the correspondents are from the first half of the alphabet, A through M. Some letters are addressed to Lillian Hall, Gould's staff...

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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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