Learned Collection : on German-language Theater, ca. 1832-1898 (bulk 1873-1895).

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Learned Collection : on German-language Theater, ca. 1832-1898 (bulk 1873-1895).

Comprises material relating to the production and performance of German-language plays in Philadelphia, predominantly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Material includes printed and manuscript plays with annotations, which served as prompt books; manuscript scenarios; lists of props, as well as a few actual props; role books; librettos; musical scores; playbills; and selected issues of German-language newspapers, published in Philadelphia and related to the theater. Also includes a catalog of the Theater-Leih-Bibliothek dated January 1886, handwritten by Theodor Bloch, owner of the lending library.

35 boxes + 2 map drawers.

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Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917

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Learned was a professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1917, serving as the department's first chair. From the description of Learned Collection : on German-language Theater, ca. 1832-1898 (bulk 1873-1895). (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 166478830 From 1895 Learned was a professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania; he served as the department's first chair. ...

Bloch, Theodor, . 1832.

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