Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, March 12, 1870. Saturday Matinee Boucicault's Greatest Success, the Octoroon Doors open at 1 1/4. Commence at 2 o'clock. Saturday Afternoon, March 12, 1870 The performance will commence at Two o'clock, with Overture -- Fidelio, Beethoven After which will be presented Boucicault's great Drama, in Five Acts, of the Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana. Uncle Pete, Mr. Chas. Walcot..

Alternate Title:

Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana; Octoroon; Life in Louisiana

Contributor:

Walcot, Charles Melton, 1840-1921 (actor)

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1870

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)

Publisher:

[Publisher not identified]

Subject:

Theaters; Playbills; Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890. Octorroon, or, Life in Louisiana; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

broadsides (notices); playbills; Castlists; books

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 22.8 x 14 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.; Performance date: March 12, 1870.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 206 in a collection of playbills bound together.; Print Collection 8 copy has Library of the University of Pennsylvania bookplate which reads "The Horace Howard Furness Memorial donated by Horace Howard Furness, Jr. and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 206

Collection:

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