Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum papers, [ca. 1750]-1970.

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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum papers, [ca. 1750]-1970.

A collection of prints, photographs, pamphlets, clippings, playbills, and programs dealing with the theater, chiefly American and English, in all its aspects including drama, opera, dance, movies, puppets, and spectacles. The majority of the material documents the 19th century. This collection is divided into several units: portrait file, subject file, program file, playbill file, and scrapbooks.

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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum

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When the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum was dispersed in 1971, its collections were divided among the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Office of Art Properties, Barnard's Minor Latham Theatre, the Barnard Library, and the Music Library. The Rare Book and Manuscript Library received manuscripts, historical recordings (78 rpm discs and tape), theatrical printed ephemera (including playbills, scrapbooks, and programs), engravings, paintings, portraits, and photographs. From the d...