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“A striking likeness of Mr. Clarke’s servant the black & white negro” hand-colored print, 1791

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 5Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Adelphi Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland) playbills, 1851 July 5-21 Digital

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
File — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 1Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
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12 playbills for various productions featuring Ira Aldridge.

Adelphi Theatre (London, England) broadside, 1839 October 16

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Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 8Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Illustrated with a woodcut of an elephant. Features Issac Van Ambrugh’s Astonishing and Intellectual Elephant and J. H. Hackett as Rip Van Winkle, with T. D. Rice, “The Famous Representative of Negro Peculiarity” playing alternating evenings the same week

Adelphi Theatre (London, England) “Jocko; or, the Brazilian Ape” playbill, 1832 September 5

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 3Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Featuring Signor Martini

Adelphi Theatre (London, England) “Yates’ Reminiscences” playbill, 1826 April 17-22

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 3Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Featuring Frederick Henry Yates

Ambassadors Theatre (London, England) "The Emperor Jones" program, 1925

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 13Identifier: MS Thr 1507, II.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Anonymous. "Leben und Künstler-Laufbahn des Negers Ira Aldridge." Berlin: Allgemeine Deutsch Verlags-Unstalt, 1853 Digital

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Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 11Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
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Presentation copy of stage biography signed by Ira Aldridge to Fraülein [sic] Engle, April 29, 1854.

Arthur Ferrier caricature of Paul Robeson as Othello, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 3Identifier: MS Thr 1507, II.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Black Musicians

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Sub-Series Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Blind Tom

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Sub-Series Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Books

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Sub-Series Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Broadsides and playbills

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Sub-Series Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Bull & George Inn (Ramsgate, England) “Spotted Negro Boy" broadside and clipping, circa 1789

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Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 5Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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"For Five Days Only at the Bull & George Inn, High-Street, Ramsgate, from the Caribee Islands in the West Indes Aged Three Years and a Half." With a contemporary article about the Spotted Boy mentioning his death at age 4 years 9 months.

Carl Gutenberg engraved portrait of a female black child with piebaldism holding bird in hand, circa 1790

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 5Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Charles Hunt "Life in Philadelphia plate 2. 'Take away dose rosy lips..’ " hand-colored print, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 4Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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From a poem by Robert Burns

Charles Hunt "Life in Philadelphia. Romeo and Juliet" hand-colored print, undated

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Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 4Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Published by W. H. Isaacs

Charles Hunt "Tregears Black Jokes no. 9: Othello, Desdemona asleep" hand-colored print, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 4Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Circus

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Sub-Series Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Clicko "bushman with bow and arrow" print, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 8Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Covent Garden Theatre (London, England) “Jocko, the Brazilian Monkey,” playbill, 1825 November 9

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Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 3Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Featuring Monsieur Mazurier

Croatian Broadside, 1853 November 10 Digital

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 2: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 1Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

Duncombe's miniature caricature magazine. No. 4. "Box Company, or a trip to Croydon" hand-colored print, undated

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 4Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Published by Duncombe Book & Music Seller

Dutch print of Aldridge as Othello, 1852 Digital

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 2Identifier: MS Thr 1507, I.
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Printed biography from De Tyd (1852) attached

E. T. Smith "The African twins" print, 1855

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 10Identifier: MS Thr 1507, III.
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Caption on print reads: The African twins, first exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, by E. J. Smith 1855.

Embassy Theatre (London, England) "Stevedore" program, 1935 May

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Item — Box 1: Series II.; Series I.; Series III., Folder: 13Identifier: MS Thr 1507, II.
Scope and Contents:

Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.

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