Toy theater collection, 1880-1953.

Format
Manuscript
Language
  • English
  • German
Description
1.50 cu. ft. (11 boxes, 2 folders, 1 envelope)

Details

Subject(s)
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Compiled/​Created
1880-1953.
Arrangement
Unprocessed.
Summary note
Consists of toy theater miscellany: a 20th-century reproduction of a toy Victorian theater by Benjamin Pollock, with many hand-colored plates of characters and scenes; figures and scenery for William Seymour's toy theater; various other toy theaters, peep shows, individual figures, wing flats, and scenery; adaptations of operas for Schreiber's Kinder-Theater; and printed material about marionettes, toy theaters, and peep shows. There are also puppets and marionettes, playbills of performances, and mounted photographs of George Pal's Puppetoons.
Cumulative index/​Finding aid
A checklist for the Pollock material is available.
OCLC
122561743
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