Grand national allegory and tableaux The great rebellion : written expressly for J.M. Hager's grand entertainments ..

Alternate Title:

Great rebellion

Creator:

Morford, Henry, 1823-1881 (author)

Contributor:

Hager, J. M. (artistic director); Matthews & Warren (printer); Steinway & Sons (other)

Timespan:

Civil War, 1861-1865; 1861-1865

Date:

1865

Identifier:

2021.04.17.00002

Language:

English

Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy); Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Publisher:

Matthews & Warren, stereotypers & printers

Subject:

Programs; Music

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

advertisements; drama (literary genre); books

Physical Description:

33 pages; 14 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama; United States

Related Place:

United States -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Cover title, with vignette (portrait of J.M. Hager).; A partial revision of Morford's original text (1863; see W.H. Wenger, Representation of the American Civil War on the New York stage, 1860-1900, pages 70-74).; J.M. Hager, originally a singer, conducted large singing classes in New York, and exhibited them in concerts. He came to specialize in presentations of this musical "allegory", subsequently rewritten and renamed The Great Republic, until 1885, recruiting more numerous bodies of singers such as the teachers and pupils of the Flushing public schools. Cf. George C.D. Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, v. 6-13.; Issued in printed paper wrappers. Inside back wrapper is numbered page 33.; Advertisements for Steinway & Sons on inside front wrapper, pages 1-2, 14-16, and back wrapper.; Kaplan Collection copy: Collectify accession no. 2021.04.17.00002.; Kaplan Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (eBay, 17 April 2021).; Kaplan Collection copy: pages 3-30 detached.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, PN3206.G73 M67 1865

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)