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Description: | Several hundred theatre photographs and prints, 19th century to date. Portraits of theatre and variety performers. Several thousand theatre programmes, 19th - 21st centuries. Small library of theatre books, annuals, yearbooks, magazines, biographies, reference works; good broken run of Spotlight casting directory from No.1 (1927) to the mid 1990's. Many photographs of theatre personalities in film roles. Several hundred postcard portraits of theatre celebrities, theatre and variety posters. 4 volumes of programmes mainly of Manchester, Leeds, Leicester productions 1914-53, Minute book of Una Plays Ltd from the first meeting in July 1943 to Nov 1949. Sheet music from shows and musical productions. Some photographs of revues at the Windmill Theatre, London taken by a member of the audience.Box of letters, cuttings, notebooks of The Wedderburns (c1880-1930), variety artistes. Some paintings and personal material of Florence Desmond. Award plaques and award certificates of Elisabeth Welch. Two personal scrapbooks and photos of the 1930's US theatre and film actor Henry Wadsworth. A box of papers, contracts etc.relating to Matheson Lang. Photographs of some British and US theatre facades and interiors. Film of theatre personalities e.g. Film and Footlight Favourites; Wilson, Keppel and Betty performing their sand dance; and amateur film of performances taken surreptitiously at Brighton Hippodrome and Pier Theatre. Gramophone records of theatre personalities, mostly 78rpm.; Cinema Museum, Cinema Museum, | Format: | Correspondence Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Playtexts (typescripts) Documents (business) Audio tapes (cassette) Postcards 78s Photographs (venue) Song sheets Documents (production) Photographs (miscellaneous) Press cuttings Daybooks Diaries Programmes Film stills Photographs (portrait) Video cassettes Documents (personal) Playbills Written / typed ephemera Films (reel to reel) Playtexts (parts & acting copies) Periodicals Autographs Posters Books Ephemera, e.g. tickets Photographs (production) Playtexts (printed) Scrapbooks | Temporal: | 1900 2000 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | The Master's House
2 Dugard Way, London,,
SE11 4TH | Creator: | Ronald Grant; Martin Humphries | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Format: | Correspondence Ephemera e.g. daybills & fliers Playtexts (typescripts) Documents (business) Audio tapes (cassette) Postcards 78s Photographs (venue) Song sheets Documents (production) Photographs (miscellaneous) Press cuttings Daybooks Diaries Programmes Film stills Photographs (portrait) Video cassettes Documents (personal) Playbills Written / typed ephemera Films (reel to reel) Playtexts (parts & acting copies) Periodicals Autographs Posters Books Ephemera, e.g. tickets Photographs (production) Playtexts (printed) Scrapbooks |
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