Theater Scrapbook “P”

Dates: 1874-1877
Size: 1.5 linear feet in 1 box, includes 1 scrapbook
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Collection Number: spe-ctc-sbp
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from the Theater Bookshop in Los Angeles, 1993
Conditions governing use: Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection
Conditions governing access: Materials open without restrictions
Preferred citation: When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Theater Scrapbook “P,” [Page #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library
Finding aid author: Original author unknown. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Sarah Zimmerman, 2022.

Abstract

The scrapbook consists of clipped playbills predominantly from theaters in Chicago, but also from Boston and New York. Chicago venues Hooley’s McVicker’s and the Academy of Music appear most often, with several programs from the New Chicago and the Adelphi theaters.

Biographical/Historical

Theater Scrapbook “P” (Programmes) was purchased from the Theater Bookshop in Los Angeles in December of 1993 by the Special Collections and Preservation Division. The scrapbook itself is a folio volume with two labels pasted on the inside endpaper, the first identifying it as Shipman’s Patent Invoice and Scrapbook, patented June 13, 1871, and the second as purchased from Arthur K Brown and Co, Stationers, 58 Federal Street, Boston. N.K. Brown and the word Programmes is written in brown ink on the endpaper.

Scope and Contents

The scrapbook consists of clipped playbills, predominantly from theaters in Chicago, but also from Boston and New York. Programs have been pasted in with no accompanying notes. Chicago venues Hooley’s, McVicker’s and the Academy of Music appear most often, with several programs from the New Chicago and the Adelphi. These programs are some of the earliest in the Chicago Theater Collection. Several loose programs were found inside the back cover and were removed to the Chicago Theater Collection-Historical Programs collection.

Arrangement

The scrapbook remains bound in its original order. An alphabetical index follows.

Separated Materials

Loose programs have been removed and added to the Chicago Theater Collection-Historical Programs.

Related Materials

Chicago Theater Collection, historical programs and scrapbooks

Subject Headings

  • Theater – Illinois – Chicago – 19th century – Sources.
  • Theater – Massachusetts – Boston – 19th century – Sources.
  • Theater – New York (State) – New York – 19th century – Sources.
  • Theater programs.

Collection Inventory

Box SBP Page 16 Aladin, Howard Athenaeum, Boston 1875 February
Box SBP Page 41 Around the World in Eighty Days, Adelphi Theatre [1875] November 15
Box SBP Page 68 Arrah-Na-Pogue, Adelphi Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 11 Article 47, Academy of Music 1874 December 30
Box SBP Page 82 The Barber of Seville, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November 7
Box SBP Page 10 La Belle Helene, Academy of Music 1874 December 25
Box SBP Page 27 Big Bonaza, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 June 14
Box SBP Page 74 The Black Crook, Adelphi Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 55 Brewer of Preston, Col. Wood’s Museum [1876] March 6
Box SBP Page 50 Broken Hearts, Globe Theatre, Boston 1876 February 5
Box SBP Page 22 Chesny Wold, Hooley’s Opera House [1875] April 13
Box SBP Page 23 Chilperic, Academy of Music 1875 May 1
Box SBP Page 33 Clancarty, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 August 19
Box SBP Page 72, 73 Conscience, Hooley’s Theatre 1876 July
Box SBP Page 80 Courier of the Alps, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 September 25
Box SBP Page 2 Cremation, Myers Opera House 1874 October 19
Box SBP Page 13 Daddy O’Dowd, Boston Museum, Boston 1875 January
Box SBP Page 91 The Danicheffs, Union Square Theatre, New York 1877 February 6
Box SBP Page 7, 8 Dearer Than Life, Academy of Music 1874 December
Box SBP Page 18 Deborah, Academy of Music 1875 February 16
Box SBP Page 39 Enoch Arden, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 September 6
Box SBP Page 67 Ferreol, Hooley’s Theatre 1876 June 19
Box SBP Page 92 Fifth Avenue, Booth’s Theatre, New York 1877 February 17
Box SBP Page 87 The Flying Dutchman, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November 29
Box SBP Page 5 Fosco, or the Women in White, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 November 9
Box SBP Page 17 Genevieve de Brabant, Globe Theatre, Boston 1875 February 8
Box SBP Page 12 Gilded Age, Park Theatre, New York 1875 January 9
Box SBP Page 24 Girofle-Girofla, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 May 3
Box SBP Page 28 Girofle-Girofla, Hooley’s Opera House [1875] June 28
Box SBP Page 42 Girofle-Girofla, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 December 27
Box SBP Page 55 Girofle-Girofla, [no theater] [1876] March 17
Box SBP Page 38 The Gladiator, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 October 11
Box SBP Page 69 La Grande Duchess, McVicker’s Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 60 Hamlet, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 24
Box SBP Page 19 Henry VIII, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 February 26
Box SBP Page 61 Henry VIII, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 May 2
Box SBP Page 83, 84 Ingomar, McVicker’s Theatre [1876] November 15
Box SBP Page 26 Jack and Jill, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 May 31
Box SBP Page 35 Jack and Jill, Academy of Music 1875 September 20
Box SBP Page 40 Jane Eyre, [no theater] undated
Box SBP Page 6 Jeanie Deans, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 November 23
Box SBP Page 52 John Garth, Wallack’s, New York 1876 February 14
Box SBP Page 14 La Jolie Parfumeuse, Globe Theatre, Boston 1875 January 16
Box SBP Page 69 La Jolie Parfumeuse, McVicker’s Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 96 La Jolie Parfumeuse, Haverly’s Theatre 1877 May 8
Box SBP Page 43 Julius Caesar, Booth’s Theatre, New York 1876 January 15
Box SBP Page 51 Julius Caesar, Booth’s Theatre, New York 1876 February 12
Box SBP Page 53 Julius Caesar, Booth’s Theatre, New York 1876 February 19
Box SBP Page 61 Katherine and Petruchio, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 May 2
Box SBP Page 58, 59 King Lear, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 17
Box SBP Page 58, 59 Lady of Lyons, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 20
Box SBP Page 95 Lady of Lyons, McVicker’s Theatre 1877 April 23
Box SBP Page 98 Led Astray, McVicker’s Theatre 1877 May 14
Box SBP Page 55 Letty, Col. Wood’s Museum undated
Box SBP Page 68 Lorle or, the Artist’s Dream, McVicker’s Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 15 Lost in London, Bosom Museum, Boston 1875 February 1
Box SBP Page 16 Madame L’Archiduc, Globe Theatre, Boston 1875 February 1
Box SBP Page 21 Magnolia, Hooley’s Opera House [1875] March 29
Box SBP Page 25 Marie Antoinette, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 May 11
Box SBP Page 4 Mary Warner, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 November 5
Box SBP Page 61 The Merchant of Venice, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 May 1
Box SBP Page 41 The Merry Wives of Windsor, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 November 8
Box SBP Page 3 Mignon, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 October 23
Box SBP Page 86 Mignon, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November 27
Box SBP Page 98 Miss Sarah Multon, McVicker’s Theatre 1877 May 17
Box SBP Page 42 Mme. Angot’s Child, McVicker’s Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 90 Monte Cristo, Howard Athenaeum, Boston undated
Box SBP Page 90 The Naiad Queen, or Spirit of the Rhine, Boston Museum, Boston 1877 January 22
Box SBP Page 60 Othello, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 28
Box SBP Page 45 Our Boys, Globe Theatre, Boston 1876 January 17
Box SBP Page 56 Our Boys, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 March 27
Box SBP Page 47 Our Friends, Boston Museum, Boston 1876 January 31
Box SBP Page 34 Pauline or Wolves in the Fold, New Chicago Theatre 1875 September 13
Box SBP Page 80 Phenomen in a Smock Frock, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 September 25
Box SBP Page 62 Pique, Hooley’s Opera House [1876] May 8
Box SBP Page 63 Pique, Hooley’s Opera House [1876] May 22
Box SBP Page 93 Poulet and Poulette, Haverly’s Theatre 1877 February 26
Box SBP Page 9 La Princesse de Trebizonde, Academy of Music 1874 December 23
Box SBP Page 57 Richard II, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 10
Box SBP Page 42 Richelieu, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 November 29
Box SBP Page 58, 59 Richelieu, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 21
Box SBP Page 60 Richelieu, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 April 27
Box SBP Page 83, 84 Romeo and Juliet, McVicker’s Theatre [1876] November 17
Box SBP Page 88 Romeo and Juliet, Haverly’s Theatre 1876 December 18
Box SBP Page 95 Romeo and Juliet, McVicker’s Theatre 1877 April 24
Box SBP Page 44 Rose Michel, Boston Museum, Boston 1876 January 17
Box SBP Page 64, 65 Rose Michel, Hooley’s Opera House [1876] May 29
Box SBP Page 89 The Scarlet Letter, Boston Theatre, Boston 1877 January
Box SBP Page 4 The School for Scandal, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 November 2
Box SBP Page 37 Sea of Ice or a Thirst for Gold, McVicker’s Theatre 1875 October 4
Box SBP Page 82 Semiramide, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November
Box SBP Page 94 The Shaughraun, McVicker’s Theatre 1877 March 19
Box SBP Page 19 Simpson and Co., McVicker’s Theatre 1875 February 26
Box SBP Page 56 Solon Shingle, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 March
Box SBP Page 1 The Sphinx, Hooley’s Opera House undated
Box SBP Page 85 Star of the North, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November 22
Box SBP Page 32 Sure, Hooley’s Opera House 1875 August 16
Box SBP Page 7, 8 That Blessed Baby, Academy of Music 1874 December
Box SBP Page 20 There’s Millions in It, Col. Mulberry Sellers, Academy of Music 1875 March 9
Box SBP Page 54 There’s Millions in It, Col. Mulberry Sellers, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 February 21
Box SBP Page 78, 79 There’s Millions in It, Col. Mulberry Sellers, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 September 11
Box SBP Page 50 Tom Cobb, Globe Theatre, Boston 1876 February 5
Box SBP Page 3 Il Trovatore, McVicker’s Theatre 1874 October 23
Box SBP Page 82 Il Trovatore, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 November 8
Box SBP Page 71 Two Men of Sandy Bar, Hooley’s Theatre 1876 July 17
Box SBP Page 30, 31 Two Orphans, Hooley’s Opera House 1875 July
Box SBP Page 36 Two Orphans, New Chicago Theatre 1875 September 23
Box SBP Page 2 Variety, Myer’s Opera House 1874 October 19
Box SBP Page 29 Variety, P.T. Barnum’s Great Roman Hippodrome, New York undated
Box SBP Page 42 Variety Acts, New Chicago Theatre 1875 November 22
Box SBP Page 46 Variety, Howard Athenaeum, Boston undated
Box SBP Page 66 Variety, New Chicago Theatre 1876 June 5
Box SBP Page 68 Variety, Adelphi Theatre undated
Box SBP Page 75 Variety, Haverly’s Theatre [1876] August 28
Box SBP Page 76 Variety, New Chicago Theatre 1876 August 28
Box SBP Page 77 Variety, New Chicago Theatre 1876 August 7
Box SBP Page 81 Variety, New Chicago Theatre 1876 October 23
Box SBP Page 56 The Victims, McVicker’s Theatre 1876 March
Box SBP Page 97 La Vie Parisienne, Haverly’s Theatre 1877 May 11
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