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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 692

Pantomime and mime collection

Overview

Images and clippings concerning performers and performances of pantomime and mime.

Dates

  • Creation: 1818-1960

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English and French.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 box)

Collection includes lithographs, engravings, photographs, photomechanical prints, and clippings. Performers depicted include Jean Gaspard Deburau, Marcel Marceau, Joseph and Mathilda (Lehman) Marzetti, Harry Payne, Ravel family, and many others.

Biographical / Historical

Pantomime is a type of musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom. Mime artists are performers who use "miming," which is the acting out of a story through body motions, without use of speech.

Arrangement

Arranged into the following series:

  1. I. Images of pantomime and mime
  2. II. Printed material on pantomime and mime

Physical Location

Harvard Depository

Immediate Source of Acquisition

No accession number. Source unknown, date unknown.

General note

This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.

Processing Information

Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt

Title
Pantomime and mime collection, 1818-1960: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou02174

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

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