Chamberlain and Lyman Brown theater diaries, 1909-1914.

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Chamberlain and Lyman Brown theater diaries, 1909-1914.

The Chamberlain and Lyman Brown Theater Diaries consist of nine volumes that document the brothers' theatergoing experiences (mostly in Boston, Massachusetts) as young teenagers, for the years from 1909 to 1914.

Arranged in series: I. Chamberlain Brown diaries, 1909-1912; II. Lyman Brown diaries, 1911-1914.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8329645

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Brown, Lyman.

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Brown, Chamberlain.

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Theatrical casting agents, producers, and writers, brothers Chamberlain and Lyman Brown were born in Hartford, Connecticut in the 1890s of a prominent New England family. Chamberlain, the elder of the two brothers, was educated at Harvard and while there he began a career as an actor. He formed his own stock company and became an owner and manager of a theater in Lowell, Massachusetts while still in his teens. Chamberlain also had begun collecting posters as a young child and this c...