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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 712

Souvenir programs of theatrical productions

Overview

Theatrical souvenir programs from the 19th and 20th-centuries.

Dates

  • Creation: 1883-1965

Language of Materials

Collection materials are primarily in English. Some material in Italian.

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

3 linear feet (12 boxes)

This collection includes old style souvenir programs, both standard and oversize, from 19th and 20th century theatrical productions in America, England, and Europe. The collection also contains motion picture programs. Some programs include photographs.

Arrangement

Arranged into the following series:

  1. I. Souvenir programs of theatrical productions
  2. II. Oversize souvenir programs of theatrical productions

Physical Location

Harvard Depository

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2010MT-11. Gift of Thomas Garrett; received: 2010 October 9.

Forms part of the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance and Music (Harvard Theatre Collection).

General note

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

Processing Information

Processed by: Ashley M. Nary

Title
Souvenir programs of theatrical productions, 1883-1965: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou02208

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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