Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.) box office receipts, 1864-1901.

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Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.) box office receipts, 1864-1901.

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Box office receipts recorded as manuscript entries written on printed forms bound into volumes. Data recorded in some volumes, but not all, can include: date, title of production, number of tickets and dollar value sold per type of seat, gross sales for day, weather, special discounts, names of lead cast members, and miscellaneous notes about event. Most volumes also include pasted-in playbills, broadsides, clippings, programs, and notations on verso of front cover listing gross receipts for season. Includes the following theater managers: Henry C. Jarrett; Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., L. R. Shewell, Eugene Tompkins, and others.

42 volumes (9.5 linear ft.)

Harvard University, Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard College Library

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Tompkins, Eugene

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Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.)

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The Boston Theatre on Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts, opened 11 September 1854 and was the second Boston Theatre in this location, rebuilt after the first structure was razed in 1852. The playhouse was designed by Edward and James Cabot and Jonathan Preston from plans by Henri Noury and it seated 3000. From the guide to the Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.) orchestra music, ca. 1860-1900., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Libr...

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1821-1883

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Junius Brutus Booth Jr. (December 22, 1821 – September 17, 1883) was an American actor and theatre manager. As a member of the Booth family of actors, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was overshadowed by his father Junius Sr. and brothers Edwin and John Wilkes (the assassin of Abraham Lincoln), and later by his wife Agnes, a successful actress. Booth was married three times: first briefly to Clementina De Bar, sister of comedian and theatrical manager Ben De Bar; then in California to Harriet Mace,...

Jarrett, Henry C., 1828-1903

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Shewell, L. R.

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