Contains playbills, programs, and other ephemera from concerts, operas, plays and other performing arts shows, mainly from the San Francisco Bay Area and other U.S. locales (Vol. 5 consists entirely of material from Europe). Documents performances at the following venues: California Theatre, San Francisco; Baldwin Theatre, San Francisco; Stockwell's Theatre, San Francisco; Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco; MacDonough Theatre, Oakland; Bush Street Theatre, San Francisco; Columbia Theatre; Fisher's Theatre, among several others. Volume 2 has handwritten entry: "June 13 1900 to June 13 1901 Year of Mourning." There is no material in the scrapbooks from this date span.