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Aaron M. Myers papers

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Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 1009
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
0.9 linear feet (3 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Aaron M. Myers papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1916-1942 (inclusive) and 1935-1936 (bulk)
Creator:
Myers, Aaron Michael
Form:
Picture postcards, Clippings (information artifacts), Travel guidebooks, and Theater programs
Abstract:
A collection of photographs from Dr. Aaron M. Myers' travels in England and Scotland in 1935 to 1936, as well as assorted playbills, tickets, newspaper clippings of theatrical reviews, and other ephemera of the 1930s theatre scene in England and Philadelphia.

Aaron Michael Myers received his Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1920s. He and his wife were dedicated lovers of the theatre, both in Philadelphia and abroad. From 1935 to 1936, he traveled in England and Scotland, collecting many playbills, photographs, and other ephemera along the way. He was an assistant or associate professor at Temple University until his death in 1937 at the age of 40.

Series one contains primarily photographs and prints from around England and Scotland, including Cambridge, Eton, and Oxford, myriad cathedrals, and London from Myers' trip to Great Britain in 1935.

Series two contains a collection of Shakespeariana, including The Shakespeare Pictorial, playbills, theatre tickets, Myers' hand-written notes, as well as photographs and prints from Myers' visit to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Series three is composed primarily of newspaper clippings of ads and reviews of the Abbey Theatre Players and Stratford Players in Philadelphia, along with assorted other theatrical reviews and a 1916 copy of Edwin Booth's Prompt-Book of Julius Caesar, edited by William Winter.

Gift of Addison Myers, February 2, 1994.

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University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Devorah Sperling-Billings
Finding Aid Date
2014 July 16
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Physical Description

1 box

Bath: photographs, guidebook, and handwritten letters, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 1
Cambridge, Eton, and Oxford: notes, photographs, photograph books, and tickets from the Bodleian Library, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 2
Cathedrals: Canterbury, photographs and handbook, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 3
Cathedrals: Chester, photographs and etchings of the town and cathedral, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 4
Cathedrals: Ely, print (two copies), 1935.
Box 1 Folder 5
Cathedrals: Hereford, photographs and handwritten notes, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 6
Cathedrals: Lincoln, photographs and National Geographic clipping, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 7
Cathedrals: Salisbury, photographs and National Geographic extract, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 8
Cathedrals: Westminster Abbey, photographs, National Geographic clippings, newspaper clipping, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 9
Cathedrals: York, photographs, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 10
Dover: photographs, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 11
Lake District: prints and guidebook, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 12
Lake District: photographs from Grasmere, Windermere, and other locations , 1935.
Box 1 Folder 13
London: photographs, maps, and guides, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 14
London: photographs and reproductions of paintings of historical figures, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 15
London: photographs, a letter, and English history pamphlet, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 16
Ludlow: Feathers Inn, photographs, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 17
Scotland: guidebook, photographs, postcards from Edinburgh, o'Doon, and various lochs, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 18
Scotland: "Tam O'Shanter" related material including photographs of Ayr, Scotland, and Alexander Goudie's paintings from the narrative poem by Robert Burns, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 19
Wales, West Country, and Saxon England: travel guides, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 20
Miscellaneous: handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, theatre guide, menu, etc., 1935.
Box 1 Folder 21
Miscellaneous: typed notes and letters, probably by Myers, possibly lessons plans, 1935.
Box 1 Folder 22

Container Summary

Issue 1-15 of the Shakespeare Pictorial: Occasional Papers. Playbills, tickets, and photographs from Stratford-upon-Avon

The Shakespeare Pictorial, issue 1-15, some incomplete, 1940-1942.
Box 2 Folder 1
Playbills and tickets to Broad St. Theatre, Walnut St. Theatre, Forrest Theatre, Chestnut St. Opera, Garrick Theatre, Erlanger Theatre, Temple University, Sam S. Schubert Theatre, and Winthrop Ames, 1927-1936.
Box 2 Folder 2
Stratford-upon-Avon: photographs and prints of Stratford-upon-Avon, the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, and other Shakespeare memorials, 1935.
Box 2 Folder 3
Stratford-upon-Avon: playbills and Myers' handwritten notes from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1931-1935.
Box 2 Folder 4

Abbey Theatre Players: Newspaper clippings, ads, and reviews, primarily: The Plough and the Stars, The Far Off Hills, Juno and the Paycock, The Playboy of the Western World, The Whiteheaded Boy, Stevedore, and First Legion in Philadelphia, 1932-1933.
Box 2 Folder 5
Abbey Theatre and Irish literature: Newspaper clippings, ads, reviews, and Myers' handwritten notes of Abbey Theatre productions in Philadelphia, as well as several newspaper clippings about Irish literature, 1932-1934.
Box 2 Folder 6
Miscellaneous: Assorted newspaper clippings of the Stratford Players at Broad St. Theatre, Shakespeare in Hollywood, and other productions, 1935-1937.
Box 3 Folder 1
Miscellaneous: Evening Public Ledger reviews, etc., primarily "The Mummers Parade," by drama critic Henry T. Murdock: reviews of Gilbert and Sullivan, Abbey Theatre Players, and D'Oyly Carte Company, 1934-1935.
Box 3 Folder 2
Edwin Booth's Prompt-Book of Julius Caesar, edited by William Winter, 1916.
Box 3 Folder 3

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