Form: Playbills. / Creator: Princeton University. Library. Special Collections / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1925">1925</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1929">1929</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 5 boxes, 26 items, and 1.5 linear feet
Abstract:: The bulk of the American Minstrel Show Collection consists of advertisement material promoting minstrel performances from the 1850s through the 1920s. The collection includes broadsheets, posters, newspaper clippings and programs, as well as pictures and photographs of minstrel show performers. In addition, a small portion of the collection contains sheet music and song and joke books.

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Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Blanche Pauli (born Virginia C. Taney) was an American singer, actress, and vaudeville performer who worked mainly in stock companies touring the northeastern United States and Canada from the late 1890s through 1904. The collection consists of personal and family correspondence and documents, photographs, play scripts and actor's sides, sheet music, playbills, clippings, and other materials related to her professional career. Some materials also relate to Pauli's husband, Herman Utley Boardman; her performance partner, Robson Dalton; and other members of her family.

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Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of playbills, programs, and some other printed material relating to the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Extent:: 242 boxes and 105.61 linear feet
Abstract:: The Geographical Playbills Collection consists chiefly of playbills from the United States, but Great Britain, Canada, Bermuda, France, Germany, and Japan are also represented. Although this is a collection of playbills, there are also some letters, documents, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material.

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Extent:: 201 boxes and 80.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of playbills of New York City theaters from the late 19th century to the present day.

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Extent:: 17 boxes, 2 items, and 44.8 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection contains broadside playbills from the United States, England, and Europe.

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Extent:: 1 box, 483 volumes, and 48.79 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 486 scrapbooks of playbills covering not only theater but also opera, ballet, and music.

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Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: The Vaudeville Collection consists mainly of playbills of vaudeville productions with souvenir books, printed matter, clippings, and miscellaneous material.

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