- unitid
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{"value"=>"186231", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2023-008", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b23004231", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1885-1907", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1885/1907"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Ernest A. Meriney scrapbooks"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"9 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7.83 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Ernest A. Meriney scrapbooks, dated 1885 to 1907, were created by Edward A. Meriney (1873-1938), a salesman and theatre enthusiast, who wanted to retain a record of the productions that were performed in New Orleans' theatres. As a major cultural center, New Orleans attracted a wide array of talent from around the country and abroad. The scrapbooks hold clippings, a photograph, playbills, postcards, telegrams, ticket stubs, and theatre seating plans."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Meriney, Ernest A., 1873-1938", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"audience"=>"internal", "value"=>"<p>Ernest A. Meriney (1873-1938) lived most of his life in New Orleans. He worked as a salesman. Meriney was a theatre enthusiast. He began collecting playbills and related materials during the late 19th century to the early 20th century.</p> <p>Meriney died in New Orleans in 1938.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ernest A. Meriney scrapbooks, dated 1885 to 1907, were compiled by him to document theatrical productions in New Orleans. The scrapbooks hold clippings, playbills, postcards, telegrams, ticket stubs and a photograph. The playbills are the dominant feature of the scrapbooks. The playbills were generated for productions performed at local theatres, particularly the Audubon Theatre, Crescent Theatre, French Opera House, St. Charles Orpheum, and the Tulane Theatre.</p> <p>One scrapbook has seating plans for these major theatres (volume 3).</p> <p>Production types consist of burlesque, comic opera, drama, minstrel shows, and Shakespeare plays. Performers from around the country and the world travelled to New Orleans to perform on stage, for example, Walter Damrosch, the German-American conductor; Elsie de Wolfe, an American actor; Mary Mannering, an English actor; and Andrew Robson, a Canadian actor.</p> <p>There are postcards and playbills sent to Meriney from friends who traveled to other cities for work or vacation. Meriney also saved ephemera from his friend Louis F. Fett, a scenic designer for the Baldwin-Melville Stock Company. Other items interfiled in the scrapbooks are poetry, articles about actors, and local and national news stories.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The scrapbooks were arranged chronologically and retain the local call numbers.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Actors' Fund of America.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Valerie Wingfield</span> in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1885
- keydate
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1885
- date_end
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1907
- date_inclusive_start
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1885
- date_inclusive_end
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1907
- extent_statement
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7.83 linear feet (9 volumes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Ernest A. Meriney scrapbooks, *T-Mss 2023-008. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}