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Clara Swigart De Windt collection of American sheet music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2015T-60
Summary: American sheet music, probably from the larger collection of Mrs. Heyliger de Windt; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo. Box 1. Popular music (early 1800s to 1870) chiefly published in Boston by Graupner; two books written and published by Gottlieb Graupner in Boston: 1st and 2nd "improved and enlarged" edition of Rudiments of the art of playing on the Piano Forte. Box 2. Music with lyrics by: Mrs. Hemans ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Oliver Wendell...

Evert Jansen Wendell and Raymond S. Wilkins collection of American sheet music by title

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2015T-52
Summary:

Sheet music published in America, chiefly from (but not limited to) the Raymond S. Wilkins and Evert Jansen Wendell collections; for voice and piano, some for piano solo.

Evert Jansen Wendell collection of sheet music with lyrics by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2015T-188
Summary:

American sheet music, scant few published in London; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo, with lyrics by English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

Harvard Theatre Collection collected documents concerning Vauxhall Gardens

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003MT-350
Scope and Contents:

Draft of manuscript contract (1728) and printed broadside describing sale of the property (1860).

Harvard Theatre Collection collected photographs and programs for shows by Orville K. Larson

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003MT-324
Summary:

Includes photographs of Larson. There are approximately 1-3 items in each envelope.

Harvard Theatre Collection collected scripts of plays

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003MT-364
Scope and Contents:

Typescript plays by various authors, including: Alfred Lys Baldry, C. Lafont, Dorothy Leighton, Cyril Twyford, and Herman Vezin. Also with an autograph manuscript of La lune rousse by F. Burillon and a script by an unknown author.

Harvard Theatre Collection collection of materials related to Noel Coward's Hay fever: a play in three acts

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2003MT-179
Summary:

1925 box includes: paper cover copy of play (London: Ernest Benn Ltd), French Acting Edition, 1927; clippings; and promotional material. 1964 box includes: 2 copies of souvenir program from The National Theatre (one signed by Edith Adams); miscellaneous cast lists (one autographed by cast members); clippings; a letter to Mrs. Robert Graff.

Harvard Theatre Collection dance scene photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 36
Overview:

Contains mainly black-and-white photographs of dance production scenes, mostly from the latter half of the twentieth century.

Harvard Theatre Collection of clippings on theater-related subjects

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC Clippings 6
Scope and Contents:

News clippings and other ephemeral material concerning theatrical subjects taken from American and British newspapers and various other sources.

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance organization photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 35
Overview:

This series includes photographs concerning dance organizations that are primarily 8 x 10, but might be other variant sizes. Contains formal publicity photographs, rehearsal photographs, etc. Some have organization names printed on them.

Harvard Theatre Collection of dance portrait photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 34
Overview:

Includes portrait and group portrait photographs of dancers.

Harvard Theatre Collection of German cartes-de-visite theatrical portrait photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: TCS 23
Overview:

Cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of people involved in the theater, with a German producer of the card. Depicts primarily German actors and actresses.

Harvard Theatre Collection of playbills and programs concerning male "stars"

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 71
Scope and Contents:

Printed playbills and programs with prominent male stars.

Harvard Theatre Collection of playbills and programs from New York City theaters

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 65
Scope and Contents:

Printed playbills and programs from productions presented at theaters in New York City, New York, USA.

Harvard Theatre Collection of printed plays inscribed by John Gilbert and George Pierce Baker

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-148
Summary:

Printed plays and theatrical pamphlets signed by actor John Gilbert, 1828-1864, including some marked up as prompt books; and printed plays signed by George Peirce, 1886-1890.

Harvard Theatre Collection of salted paper prints

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1646
Overview:

Contains portraits of nineteenth century theatrical figures in the format of salted paper prints.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Sheet Music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 93
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, many with illustrated covers.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music about personalities: Marie Cahill, Alice Lloyd, and Rogers Brothers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: TCS 81
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, most with illustrated covers, concerning vaudeville entertainers Marie Cahill, Alice Lloyd, and the Rogers Brothers (Comedy team).

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music about personalities: troupes

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: TCS 84
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, most with illustrated covers, concerning various performing troupes.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music by author

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: TCS 94
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, many with illustrated covers.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music by topic

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 90
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, many with illustrated covers, organized by topic.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music concerning baseball

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: TCS 85
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, most with illustrated covers, relating to the sport of baseball.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music for the circus

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: TCS 86
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, most with illustrated covers, for circus and carnival entertainment.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music newspaper supplements

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2015T-58
Summary:

Music supplements from newspapers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco; chiefly for voice and piano.