Philadelphia Theatre. Performance Every Evening. The profits of this night's Entertainments will be appropriated in aid of the funds of the Philadelphia Asylum for the Deaf & Dumb. Tuesday Evening, Dec. 9, 1823, Will be presented an Historical Drama, in 5 acts, called Deaf & Dumb; Or, The Orphan Protected. Taken from the French play, written by M. Bouilly, upon a real event in the history of the Abbe De L'Epee, the original founder of the Institution for the instrucion of the Deaf and Dumb, at Paris. Julio, (the Orphan) Mrs. Darley. ... : After which, the interesting Melo-Drama of the Wandering Boys; Or, The Castle of Olival. Count de Croissy, Mr. Wallack. ..

Alternate Title:

Deaf & Dumb; Or, The Orphan Protected; Deaf and Dumb; Orphan Protected; Wandering Boys; Or, The Castle of Olival; Wandering Boys; Castle of Olival

Name:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

Date:

1823

Language:

English

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809. Deaf and dumb; Bouilly, J. N. (Jean Nicolas), 1763-1842. Abbé de l'Epée. English; Kerr, John, active 1814-1834. Wandering boys; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books; broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 32.3 x 18.1 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Printed area measures 27.4 x 15.4 cm.; Performance date: December 9, 1823.; Print Collection 8 copy is box 21B no. 35 in a collection of playbills housed together.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 box 21B no. 35

Collection:

Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)