Overview
Subject files of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century printed materials relating to theater.
Dates
- Creation: 1710-2008
Language of Materials
Collection materials are primarily in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
37.25 linear feet (75 boxes, 1 portfolio box)This collection includes ephemera and printed materials on topics related to the theater. Material types include, but are not limited to, admission tickets, advertisements, bookplates, broadsides (notices), clippings, correspondence, dance cards, essays, envelopes, exhibition catalogs, fliers (printed matter), greeting cards, guidebooks, invitations, long-playing records, maps, menus, obituaries, order forms, pamphlets, photographs, playbills, portraits, postage stamps, postcards, programs (documents), promotional materials, scripts (documents), sheet music, signatures (names), souvenir programs, stickers, and travel guidebooks. Manuscript materials, when present, have been noted.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject, person, place, or title.
Unless noted, original arrangement and titles from collector have been retained. Oversize materials are listed alphabetically but housed separately.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Physical Location
b, pf
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2010MT-11. Gift of Thomas Garrett ; received: 2010 October 9.
Forms part of the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance and Music.
General note
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Ashley M. Nary
Processing Information
This finding aid was revised in 2021 and 2024 to address outdated and harmful descriptive language. During that revision, contextualizing processing notes were added to the description of several items.If you have questions or comments about these revisions, please contact Houghton Library. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.
- Title
- Printed ephemera relating to theater, 1710-2008: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02390
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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