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COLLECTION Identifier: TCS 75

Harvard Theatre Collection of souvenir programs by title

Overview

Contains souvenir programs collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1800-2011

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

13 linear feet (29 boxes)

Contains souvenir programs collected by the Harvard Theatre Collection, dating back to the beginning of the nineteenth century and with contents from the twentieth. The series was closed in 2011.

Biographical / Historical

Souvenir programs are lists of the acts, scenes, selections, or other features composing a theater or organization performance, including the names of performers. Souvenir programs are produced and distributed to mark special events, usually are more lavishly designed and printed, and have more detailed contents than regular programs.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by production title.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Various sources, various dates.

Processing Information

Processed by S. Max Fan, with assistance from Betts Coup and Dale Stinchcomb.

Title
Harvard Theatre Collection, collector. Harvard Theatre Collection of souvenir programs by title, circa 1800-2011 (TCS 75): Guide.
Status
completed
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Date
October 20, 2023
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng
EAD ID
hou03605

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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