Overview
Collection created by the Harvard Theatre Collection of purchased or given photographs.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1866-2018
Creator
- Harvard Theatre Collection (Collector, Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 linear feet (3 boxes)This is an artificial collection of photographs purchased by or given to the Harvard Theatre Collection. It includes a variety of photographs of theatrical subjects. Contains cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, and other photographic forms. Images are primarily portraits but also include group portraits and other theatrically themed images from the United States and Europe.
Arrangement
Arranged in order received.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquisition information is given with each item, if available.
General note
For photographs recieved prior to 2010, see collections beginning with TCS.
Processing Information
Processed by Magdaline Lawhorn, 2018.
Processing Information
This finding aid was revised in December 2023 to address outdated and harmful descriptive language. During that revision, one pejorative, racist term was removed from the description of one item. For more information on reparative archival description at Harvard, see Harvard Library’s Statement on Harmful Language in Archival Description.
Creator
- Harvard Theatre Collection (Collector, Organization)
- Title
- Harvard Theatre Collection, collector. Harvard Theatre Collection photograph collection, circa 1866-2018 (HTC 2): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- October 15, 2018
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03033
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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