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COLLECTION — Box: 1 Identifier: 2003MT-191

Edward Dyas collection of English play sides

Scope and Contents

Manuscript sides, most bound without boards and most annotated with play title and role. Some marked with name and address of E. Dyas, Glasgow.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1850-1870

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

.25 linear feet (1 box)

Biographical / Historical

Play sides are single pages, taken from a complete script, detailing an individual actor's part.

Arrangement

Unprocessed.

Physical Location

GEN

Ownership and Custodial History

Purchase, 1990.

Processing Information

Minimal description derived from existing records and converted to online finding aid, Melanie Wisner, 2020.


Genre / Form

Title
Dyas, Edward, 1815-1877, collector. Edward Dyas collection of English play sides, circa 1850-1870 (2003MT-191): Guide
Status
completed
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Date
2018 November 16
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou04507

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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