Miscellaneous, 1935-2009, bulk: 1935 - 2009
Scope and Contents note
The playbill collection, donated by Valerie Lynn, is comprised of playbills and other theatre ephemera, pamphlets from various art exhibitions, and programs from musical performances and ballets collected over her lifetime. The collection spans seven decades, from 1946 to 2009, and includes playbills from at least five different countries.
Dates
- 1935-2009
- Majority of material found within 1935 - 2009
Extent
From the Collection: 4.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the File: English
Container Summary
A Study Guide to Max Reinhardt’s Photoplay Version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Photoplay Studies. 1:2. Newark: Sept. 1935.
The Poets’ Theatre Season Guide 1954-1955. (2 copies).
Bolshoi Ballet 1966 Program.
1992 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Program. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C.: Nov. 1992.
Humanities Magazine. 24:3. May/June 2003.
Duncan-Jones, Katherine. “Genuinely Fake, Henry IV, Parts One and Two at the Oliver Theatre.” London: The Sunday Times, 25 May 2005.
Our Lady of Victory School Music and Art Night Program. May 21, 2009.
Our Lady of Victory School Graduation Program 2009.
Three postcards from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Chamber Music Concert. Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Boston: Date unknown.
A View from the Bridge. Colonial Theatre. Boston: Date unknown.
Dial ‘M’ for Murder. Wilbur Theatre. Boston: Date unknown.
The Love of Four Colonels. Colonial Theatre. Boston: Date unknown.
Picnic. Plymouth Theatre. Location and date unknown. (2 copies)
Ondine. Colonial Theatre. Boston: Date unknown.
The Changeling. The Poets’ Theatre. Cambridge: Date unknown.
Young Ireland Theatre Company Program.
Messe for en Skoge. Det ny Teater. Copenhagen: Date unknown.
Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan. Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm. Location and date uknown.
Wincia Tomaszewska. Odd Fellow Palaeets Midre Sal. Cophenhagen: Date unknown.
Various handwritten ephemera.
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Rare Books Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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