Found 2 collections related to Theater -- 19th century

Mrs. Harry Lee (née Fay Elma Waterman, 1862-1916) was a theatre enthusiast. These scrapbooks contain theatre ephemera from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lee assembled these scrapbooks while traveling with her husband Harry A. Lee (1845-1919) a stage actor and manager. The scrapbooks hold broadsides, newspaper clippings, playbills, photographs, some letters, and ticket stubs. less

The Helen Menken collection of Booth Family papers, dated 1787 to 1992, consists of programs, correspondence, and illustrations relating to the English-American theatrical Booth family, mainly the patriarch Junius Brutus Booth. The material was collected by his daughter Asia Frigga Booth, and through her line passed to American actress Helen Menken. less