Manuscripts
Advance sales book
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Advance sales book
Manuscripts
Advance sales book includes listings for companies, dates of performances, and total sales. Information also generally includes names of advance men, managers, and treasurers.
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Performances and photocollages
Manuscripts
Mostly images of performers on stage before audiences or photocollages made for promotional purposes. Includes Nino Martini; Lawrence Tibbett; Amelita Galli-Curci; Yehudi Menuhin; Junior Orchestra of Los Angeles (1936); National Baptist Convention Chorus, Los Angeles (1937); Los Angeles Theater Season managers and treasurers photocollage featuring L. E. Behymer (1903-1904); photocollages for Behymer's Philharmonic courses featuring various performers (1900s).
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H.C. Wyatt date book
Manuscripts
Date book listing attraction, manager, gross, net, and profit. Includes listings for the Grand Opera House, and Los Angeles Theatre, with dates for other locations at the end.
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Lynden Ellsworth Behymer papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains business correspondence and papers of California impresario L. E. Behymer, who played a leading part in the musical development of the Southwest. He was the founder of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and its manager for 20 years. Included in the papers are account books, agreements and contracts, box office receipts, etc. The collection consists of letters, documents (including 32 volumes of accounts, agreements, and box office receipts) and manuscripts related to Lynden E. Behymer and various California musical and theatrical organizations. There are also plays, prompt books, and music. Over 2400 pieces of correspondence include large sections devoted to the California Opera Company, the Chicago Opera Company, and the Mission Play. This collection also includes approximately 3,000 photographs of performers and performances. Volumes begin to contain *Now that handwritten letters are popping up, it is important to note a few things. Generally the letters are written on hotel stationary (either from the area or out of the area). The letters are usually written by the actors/actresses to the manager of the theatre. Sometimes there will be a letter describing when play companies will arrive and by which way they are traveling. Some are small sheets containing stage directions Includes 7 account books dating from 1888-1945, 2 advance sales volumes, bound agreements, one volume of bank checks for 1936, 19 bound box office receipt volumes, 1892-1916 Playbills, programs, including programs of the Auditorium, the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, etc. Includes manuscript prompt books for Helena Modjeska. Some of the programs from theaters unrelated to Behymer were requested by him. Especially in July1939, he began asking various "little theaters" to send him literature.
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The Advance Thresher Co. Battle Creek, Mich. U.S.A
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for the Advance Thresher Company of Battle Creek, Michigan; portraits of United States presidents, labeled with names and years in office from George Washington in 1789 to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 frame a pair of scenes contrasting African American slaves threshing on a plantation in Virginia in 1788 with machine threshing a harvest in the early 1900s; herald-bearer with banner for Advance at top center.
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Loose sales/marketing materials
Visual Materials
The collection includes 41 loose photographs, sales/marketing materials, and one advertisers packet with additional sales/marketing materials from the 1933 event as well as images from previous races. The loose images, mostly taken by photographer "Dick" Whittington, include aerial views of the event, field, and seating areas; images of the Goodyear and Navy blimps; images of aeronautical stunts; photographs of patrons and participants including one of Lieutenant Commander Richardson receiving the Armstrong Siddeley Trophy after participating in the King's Cup Race; the Victor McLaglen Medical Corps Aerial Nurse Division; images of hot air balloons; a parade procession; awards ceremonies; and the Angels Flight railway in Downtown Los Angeles. The loose sales/marketing materials are comprised of National Air Races, and Union Oil Company of California ("76" gasoline) logos; one copy of the schedule of events and prizes; nine copies of a seating diagram with ticket information; five copies of advance ticket sales forms; and one copy of general instructions and memorandum for advance ticket salespeople. The advertisers packet includes one typed letter of introduction from the sponsoring committee, one typed letter from managing director Clifford Henderson regarding seating selections, one copy of the Schedule of Events and Prizes, one copy of a seating diagram with ticket information, and six photographs from previous air races including one of World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker.
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