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H.C. Wyatt date book
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Manuscripts
This collection contains personal papers, business records, correspondence, photographs, prints, and ephemera that relate to Los Angeles theatre impresario, Lynden E. Behymer. The materials date from approximately 1850 to 1998, with the bulk of the collection ranging from the 1910s to 1940s. A small portion of the collection consists of biographical information about Behymer and his family. The Personal and biographical materials series contains albums, scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence relating to Behymer's birthdays, tributes, and other celebratory events. Of note in the collection are the Business records and Correspondence series. The materials primarily relate to Behymer's involvement in managing musicians, actors, actresses, dancers, singers, theatres, and organizations in the music and entertainment industry in California and abroad. Included are approximately 2,400 pieces of correspondence with organizations such as the California Grand Opera Company, the Chicago Grand Opera Company, the Los Angeles Repertory Theatre, the Merola Opera Company, and the San Francisco Opera Association. Formats consist of account books, ledgers, receipt books, agreements, contracts, correspondence, and notes by Behymer. A significant portion of the collection consists of programs, which are organized by theatre programs, movie theatre programs, and souvenir programs. Theatre programs are one of the largest series in the collection, and consist of theatres based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, as well as other states and international countries. Many of these theatres (Grand Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, Burbank Theatre, Philharmonic Auditorium, Chicago Opera House, etc.) are also represented in the Press clippings and Theatre scrapbooks series. Souvenir programs are incorporated into the Music, dance, and drama series as they primarily pertain to performers and musicians such as: Anna Pavlova, Ballets Russes, Ruth St. Denis, La Argentina (Antonia Mercé y Luque), Trudi Schoop, Sarah Bernhardt, Helena Modjeska, Mei Lan-Fang, Ignace Jan Paderewski, and many others. Additional materials in the Music, dance, and drama series include librettos, prompt books, plays, poetry, sheet music, and correspondence with various music organizations and clubs. The collection also contains approximately 3,000 photographs of performers and performances. The photographs range from signed portrait photographs, to play and set designs, musicians on stage, and some press photographs of the Behymer family at events and premieres. A small number of prints, drawings, and ephemera are also found in the collection. They include Behymer's personalized book plates and stationery, travel tickets, memorabilia, invitations, celebrity signatures, business cards, travel guides, postcard albums, greeting cards, drawings, prints by Alfred Frueh and Max Reinhardt, and costume designs.
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Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles Theatres
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Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of actors and actresses, and a few pieces of correspondence. Chicago theatres include: Hooley's Theatre, McVicker's Theatre, Chicago Opera House, Grand Opera House, Windsor Theatre, Grenier's Garden Theatre, and Criterion Theatre. Los Angeles theatres include: Grand Opera House, Hazard's Pavilion, Los Angeles Theatre, Turner Hall, and Park Theatre.
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Chicago Theatres: Minstrels and Vaudeville
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Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings, photographs and letters of actors and actresses. Includes Chicago theatres: Olympic Theatre, Grand Opera House, Hooley's Theatre, Haverly's Minstrel Theatre, Madison Street Theatre, Haverly's Theatre, and Myer's Opera House. Also includes Los Angeles theatres: Grand Opera House, Imperial Music Hall, Los Angeles Theatre, Academy of Music, and Hazard's Pavilion.
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Chicago Theatres
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Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of actors and actresses, and a few pieces of correspondence. Theatres include: Hooley's Theatre, McVicker's Theatre, Chicago Opera House, Grand Opera House, Columbia Theatre, Standard Theatre, and Grenier's Garden Theatre.
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Chicago Theatres
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Scrapbook with pasted playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of actors and actresses, and correspondence. Theatres include: Grand Opera House, McVicker's Theatre, Hooley's Theatre, Columbia Theatre, Standard Theatre, and Haverly's Theatre.
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Chicago Theatres
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Scrapbook with pasted, playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of actors and actresses, and some correspondence. Theatres include: McVicker's Theatre, Grand Opera House, Hooley's Theatre, Haverly's Theatre, and Hamlin's Theatre.
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