Box 3

Advertisement for an entertainment at Randall's Hall, West Milton (Ohio).

Program for "a Negro folk drama in four scenes" by Hall Johnson and directed by Frank Merlin.

Handbill shows the cast of characters and the schedule of scenes. From dealer's description: this play was first produced by the Black unit of the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago in 1938.

One of the series, Students' Dance Recitals, this one featuring four dances. Dancers included Graham and Merce Cunningham.

Square volvelle printed on both sides. Illustration on front is of a clown (actor George H. Adams) squeezing an irate cat, with a window where the clown's face is. As the wheel revolves, it shows the clown with six different expressions. Text printed on the back: "Look on the Other Side and See Geo. H. Adams Sqeezing [sic] the Poor Cat, Isn't It Awful?"

Program for a theatrical production of "Jim the Penman" by Sir Charles Young, sponsored by the Massachusetts Women Suffrage Association Ways and Means Committee. The play was performed in Boston's Wilbur Theatre; it starred Almira Pitman. Suffragist Maud Wood Park gave an address between the acts of the play.

Advertisement and drink menu for a female impersonator show at Finocchio's in San Francisco (Calif.), annotated by an attendee.

A broadside advertising Charles A. Willard's dancing school in Harvard, Mass.

A die-cut program depicting a woman on the front cover and a man on the reverse. Inside the program describes the season of "Soto Espactacles" and "Rayando el Sol".

A flyer advertising soprano Mary Cardwell Dawson musical performance at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, including a brief biographical description of the vocalist and excerpts from press reviews.

An etched portrait that depicts French Giant, Louis Frenz standing dressed in uniform, extending an arm over the head of a man, near an onlooking child and woman.

A printed program for a variety show promoting an all inmate cast featuring the Madisonians and the Big Mammy Minstrels.

A letterpress handbill promoting the "Baby Show", where 300 children were exhibited featuring twins and triplets.

A handbill depicting the scene changes for three acts of the musical "The Red Moon", starring Bob Cole (1868-1911) and J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954). It is signed in print at by the stage manager, "Chas. Hunte, Stage Manager".

A flyer announcing a political lecture given by Dr. Doxey Wilkerson. The document addresses the following political concerns: permanent peace; Roosevelt's programs; President Truman's administration; anti-poll tax fight; exploitation by imperialism; and more. The document promises attendees that entertainment in the form of music and dance will follow the lecture, provided by Sunrise Quartet.

A handbill advertising the Mysterious Cave (the Parisian Sensation), where the participants through a seance would see the dead speak and a skeleton laugh. The advert includes an illustrations of four coffins, one holds a dying person, another a skeleton, the next a skeleton with a living head, and the fourth is an entirely alive person.

A broadside featuring a minstrel ballad with a woodcut illustration.

A tri-fold mailer issued by the San Francisco-based People's Theatre Coalition advertising performances of The Octopus (El pulpo) by El Teatro de la Esperanza (San Diego).

A four-page broadsheet advertising a performance of "On the Suwanee River" held at the Grand Opera House. The broadsheet includes illustrations featuring scenes from the performance. The music for song "On the Suwanee River" also know as "Old Folks at Home" is featured on the backside of the broadside including the lyrics and musical notation.

A four-page program advertising the exhibition of a panoramic painting depicting the General Taylor's campaign in Mexico.

Playbills, programs, advertisements, and other material announcing or publicizing theatrical productions. This collection is an assembled collection. Other than format, the contents are not related.

A program that outlines the festivities for the May Festival. The program features adverts from businesses and photographs and descriptions of featured entertainers.

One typescript handbill advertising the Hotchkin Family Concert Company and Bell Ringers and one typescript program for the event. Both pieces were printed by the Post-Express Printing Co. of Rochester, New York.

Typescript program describing the rules of Ordway Hall and the featured entertainment, which included: clog dancers, an illusionist, Shakespearean readings, music, and more.

Broadside advertising the exhibition of Black Beauty, a hermaphrodite horse, at the university stables.