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Thespian Theatre (S.C.). [Playbills, 1808].

Title: [Playbills, 1808]. 1808.

Original broadside playbills for the Charleston Company performing at the Thespian Theatre in South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 10 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32798261 View

Placide, Henry, 1799-1870. Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, 1838-1901.

Title: Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, 1838-1901.

Includes two anonymous promptbooks (nos. 37 and 43); an actor's partbook marked for First Citizen and signed by Henry Placide, used at the Park Theatre, N.Y., 1838 (no. 38); promptbook marked for Menenius, signed by William Pleater Davidge and associated with Theatre Royal, Sheffield, and Broadway Theatre, N. Y. (no. 39); John Fest's promptbook checked for Coriolanus, interleaved and heavily annotated with costume list inserted (no. 40); two prompts marked by Charles Melville and stamped Boston Theatre, associated with Thomas Barry (no. 41); Samuel Phelp's preparation copy (no. 42); and Sir Henry Irving's studybook, Lyceum Theatre, 1901 (no. 44).

ArchivalResource: 8 items

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Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.). [Playbills, 1809-1811].

Title: [Playbills, 1809-1811]. 1809-1811.

Original broadside playbill for Nov. 10, 1809 and reproduction of playbill from the Richmond Theatre in Virginia. Photo reproduction is for Dec. 26, 1811, the night the theater burned down.

ArchivalResource: 2 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32798249 View

Placide, Henry P., 1799-1870,. Autograph letter signed from Henry Placide, Babylon, L.I., to Mrs. Oak Smith [manuscript], 1865 August 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Henry Placide, Babylon, L.I., to Mrs. Oak Smith [manuscript], 1865 August 9.

Placide regrets he cannot accept an invitation.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456560939 View

Placide, Henry. Collection, 1810-1834.

Title: Collection, 1810-1834.

Seventeen signed working scripts once the property of Henry Placide.

ArchivalResource: Mini-collection.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32824095 View

Winter, William, 1836-1917,. Autograph letters signed from William Winter to various recipients [manuscript], 1864-1917.

Title: Autograph letters signed from William Winter to various recipients [manuscript], 1864-1917.

Most of the letters concern theater life and people, both in England and America. (16) mentions [Augusta?] Dargon, (39) Charles Clapp, (51-52) Dion Boucicault and David Belasco and (99) Henry Placide and his wife. (49) is incomplete. (104) to J.B. Walker includes a poem by Winter, which is listed in the Folger card index of first lines. (68-70) and (114) concern Thomas Nast's "The Immortal Light of Genius."

ArchivalResource: 114 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436214802 View

Hackett, Norman. Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, 1804-1905.

Title: Promptbooks for productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, 1804-1905.

Includes promptbooks used by or associated with William Warren, William Wood, and the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia (no. 258); John Philip Kemble, Walter Lacy [Williams] and the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (no. 260); Frederick Vining and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (no. 261); William Charles Macready, George C. Ellis and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (nos. 259 and 262); John G. Gilbert and the Princess's Theatre, London (no. 263); William Pleater Davidge, Charles Lester, George Holland, Fanny Wallack, the Broadway Theatre and the Olympic Theatre, New York (no. 264); William Henry Sedley-Smith, George Riddle, and the Boston Museum (nos. 265 and 277); William Henry Stephens (no. 266); James H. Taylor and the Boston Theatre (no. 267); Joseph P. Winter (no. 268); Edward Milton, N.K. Forrest and Wallack's Theatre, New York (no. 269); George Riddell (no. 270); Fanny Davenport, John H. Barnes and Mr. Buckly (nos. 271-275); Henry Placide (no. 276); Mr. Erroll(?) (no. 278); F.B. Conway(?) (no. 279); Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and the Lyceum Theatre, London (no. 280); Otis Skinner (no. 281); James F. Anderson (no. 282); Emma Reignolds (no. 283); and E.H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, and Norman Hackett (no. 284).

ArchivalResource: 27 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612308285 View