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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, flyers, invitations, posters, handbills, newsletters, and a variety of other materials by and about Nashville area performing arts, including venues and specific performances and performers. The vast majority of materials throughout the collection are programs or promotional flyers and posters. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Some items are photocopies.
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Scope and content: A scrapbook journal related to theatrical and operatic productions at the Theatre Vendome circa the 1887-88 season. Includes the handwritten playscript "Lights and Shadows" by Louis Davis, with a diagram of stage settings. The published clippings pertain to performances at the Theatre Vendome, the Masonic Theatre, and The Grand Opera House, all located in Nashville, Tennessee. Circa the 1887-88 season many prominent artists appeared...
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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...
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Scope and content: Print, manuscript, and photographic materials document Nashville programs at a variety of local venues (primarily the Ryman Auditorium) between 1892 and 2002, with concentration on the years between 1945 and 1994. Materials include news clippings and reviews, ticket stubs, souvenir programs, publicity and news photos, correspondence, and personal appearance contracts between venues and performers. While most of the documented...
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Scope and content: A collection of three scrapbooks, featuring newspaper clippings about The Little Theatre Guild, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee. The articles were published in "The Banner," and "The Tennessean" newspapers, ca. 1921-ca. 1932. The main theatrical performance venue was Hillsboro Theater.
Scrapbook #1, ca. 1927-ca. 1928, contains clippings created by the Publicity Department of the Little Theatre Guild, with information about theatrical...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials, related mostly to the performing arts in Nashville, Tenn. in the early 1920s. Items include performance programs, news clippings, and other material. Some items have minor damage, and some appear to have been removed from a scrapbook or show other signs of having been glued down in the past. Many of the programs contain photographic illustrations.
Subjects include classical music, dance, and singing, including...
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Scope and content: A collection of documentary sources pertaining to the history of two theatre groups of Nashville: 1) The Community Playhouse, and 2) Theatre Nashville. The Community Playhouse documentation consists of minutes of the board of directors, spanning ca. 1950-ca. 1957. The documentary sources about Theatre Nashville include eight scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, theatrical programs, photographs, and ephemera, spanning the dates...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of approximately .75 cubic feet of clippings, compact discs, ephemera, general information, and publications relating to the Tennessee Players, Inc. and dating from 1986 to 2008. The majority of the collection consists of ephemera from various Tennessee Players productions, including programs, bookmarks, postcards, and posters. The most heavily represented production is Words of Albert Schweitzer and the...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of fourteen documentary scrapbook volumes pertaining to the history of The Circle Players, Inc., spanning the dates ca. 1949-ca. 1974. Includes newspaper clippings, theatrical programs, photographs, telegrams, primary sources, and ephemera, documenting each season's theatrical productions, directors and cast members, and the history of the organization. Includes the 1949 by-laws of the theatrical organization,...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of two theatrical scrapbooks and individually foldered photographs that belonged to the American actress Madge West Joseph (1892-1985). The primary and secondary sources include biographical newspaper articles, theatrical programs, theatrical reviews, photographs, correspondence, telegrams, and ephemera. The collection documents the actress's involvement with Nashville theatrical guilds and organizations...
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Scope and content: A collection of six scrapbooks and one diary presumably compiled by Meriwether Liston Lewis, a Nashville Carnegie Library reference librarian and a published author, spanning the dates ca. 1901-ca. 1954. The materials document Nashville theatre, primarily about theatrical productions at the Vendome Theatre and the Grand Opera House, ca. 1901, United States history, international and national politics, the Paris Peace Conference...
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Scope and content: This small collection of theatre programs and newsletters concentrates on productions at the Orpheum Theatre of Nashville, Tenn. which starred Miss Billy Long and her Players. Her specialty was apparently stories with a southern or Western theme, though she also appeared in other types of theatricals. A few newsclippings, which apparently originated from a scrapbook, include photographs of her, as do a number of the programs or...
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Scope and content: Advertising announcements, descriptive folders, letters and telegrams, librettos, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, programs, realia, scripts, and souvenir booklets gathered by Lula Naff over her many years as manager of the Ryman Auditorium. The materials span Ryman performances between 1901 and 1956, and document Nashville appearances by such cultural, political, and entertainment notables as Gene Autry, Fanny Brice,...