Collection of Theater and Performance Programs, Theater Souvenir Books, Film Souvenir Books and Advertising, and Other Performing Arts Ephemera
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Published: 1927
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection includes: Programs and playbills for concerts, lectures, and theater shows in Springfield (Massachusetts), New York City, Hartford (Connecticut), and Northampton (Massachusetts), primarily from the 1940s; souvenir books for several New York revues and musicals of the 1940s, including "Oklahoma" (Theatre Guild), "Porgy and Bess," "St. Louis Woman," and "Ziegfeld Follies"; movie souvenir books and ephemera, including a souvenir book for "Doctor Zhivago" signed by several of the film's stars and a small set of advertising ephemera for movies shown in Cuba from about 1927 to 1947; souvenir books for the Ice-Capades of 1942, Gene Autry's Flying A Ranch Stampede for 1942, the Ballet Theatre for 1943-1944, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for 1944-45; and an English-language single-sheet program for a dance performance at Riveroll's Art Galleries in Mexico City, possibly 1947 (sheet has been partly cut down, with loss of text and image). Material from Springfield includes programs for several lectures and concerts sponsored by the city's Young Men's Christian Association. Some items have other ephemera, such as newspaper clippings, inserted. Many items are autographed by performers.