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T. H. Vail Motter Playbills Collection
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T. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) received a Ph.D. from Yale University and spent two years in the Middle East during World War II, prior to serving as Chief of Middle East Section, Office of the Chief of Military History.
Motter, T. H. VailT. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) received a Ph.D. from Yale University and spent two years in the Middle East during World War II, prior to serving as Chief of Middle East Section, Office of the Chief of Military History.
Consists mainly of playbills of American dramatic productions covering over forty-five years of play-going by Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) but includes some early 20th-century playbills from the London theater as well as foreign playbills from Greece, Turkey, Belgium, China, Japan, Denmark, Holland, and England.
Arranged in this order: boxed--American (1900-1965), foreign (1959-1960); loose--1967-1969.
This collection was processed in 2002.
Subject
- Playbills -- Belgium -- 20th century
- Playbills -- China -- 20th century
- Playbills -- Denmark -- 20th century
- Playbills -- England -- 20th century
- Playbills -- Greece -- 20th century
- Playbills -- Holland -- 20th century
- Playbills -- Japan -- 20th century
- Playbills -- Turkey -- 20th century
- Playbills -- United States -- 20th century
- Publisher
- Rare Book Collection
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
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