October is American Archives Month! To celebrate the Archives is featuring the Sigmund A. Lavine Boston Theatre Collection in anticipation of the opening of the new Paramount Center next year.
The Lavine collection features materials related to Boston theaters, including Emerson's own Majestic Theatre. The collection consists of photographs, scrapbooks, ledgers, playbills, programs and newspaper clippings related to Boston theater in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Images include popular actors of the time, like General Tom Thumb, Sara Bernhardt, and Edwin Booth (brother of the notorious John Wilkes Booth). The programs and playbills feature productions from the Bijou Theatre, Boston Museum, Castle Square Theatre, Tremont Theatre, and Hollis Street Theatre, as well as many other Boston area theaters.
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