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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
No application. Prod. New Theatre, Jan. 24, 1811. Printed copy, 3d ed., 1811. (Dated Lyceum, Sept. 15, 1812, in B.C.)
LA 1659
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Visual Materials
Image of a collage of vignettes of burlesque, acrobatic, and minstrel acts and performers centered between two standing burlesque dancers in red costumes and including vignettes of the head-and-shoulders of fourteen female performers in formal dress, acrobats performing on bars, trapezes, and in balancing acts on balls and on a tightrope high wire, rows of men dancing with some in blackface, a group of female dancers with jump ropes, and a male minstrel troupe with musical instruments.
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Manuscripts
Manuscript notice states, The following Dialogue & Songs are in [tended?] as the Alteration from a Comedy of Five Acts call'd The Gamester written by Mrs Centlivre, into a Comedy of Three Acts call'd the Pharo Table.
mssLA 820
Manuscripts
A farce interspersed with music in two acts. Set in Bagdad over an evening, night and morning.
mssLA 2158
Visual Materials
Image of three different acrobatic acts being performed before spectators under a circus tent: two male acrobats balancing on a stack of tables, three female circus performers standing upside down on a mirror suspended from the ceiling, and six male acrobats performing balancing acts with poles; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner.
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Manuscripts
Volume II also includes letters (mssHM 33787-33789) and a printed copy and autograph version of Armadale: a drama in three acts (mssHM 33790),
mssHM 33786