Bowersock Opera House programs and bank book 1890-1925

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Bowersock Opera House programs and bank book 1890-1925

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This collection contains many theatre programs from live 19th century performances in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, and also a related 1905-1911 bank book. Sixty-five programs dated 1915 to 1925 are from Lawrence's Bowersock Opera House, which later became Bowersock Theatere. An 1890 program is from its predecessor, Liberty Hall.

66 items; 1 volume (unpaged; 14 cm.)

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6353312

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The Bowersock Opera House opened in Lawrence, Kansas on February 1912. It was built by Lawrence industrialist Justin DeWitt Bowersock on the site where the Liberty Hall theatre operated in downtown Lawrence in the 1880s. Liberty Hall was destroyed by fire in 1911. From the guide to the Bowersock Opera House programs and bank book, 1890-1925, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) ...

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Justin DeWitt Bowersock was born in Columbiana County, Ohio on September 19, 1842 to Israel and Adaline (McDonald) Bowersock. By age twenty-two, he was engaged in general merchandising and in the grain business at Iowa City, Iowa. On September 5, 1866, he married Mary C. Gower, daughter of James H. and Barradella Gower of Iowa City. In 1877 the Bowersocks and the Gowers moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where Bowersock acquired the dam over the Kansas River, harnessing its ener...

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