Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, December 1, 1869. The Great Dramatization of Mrs. H. B. Stowe's World-Famed Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin in six acts and tableaux. The intense power and exquisite pathos of which have secured for it a success unequaled in American dramatic annals, and invested it in the popular regard, with Perennial Beauty and Freshness. Wednesday Evening, Dec. 1, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clock, with Overture-"Uncle Tom," Hassler, After which the great Drama, in 6 Acts, entitled Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly. Uncle Tom, W. H. Bailey ... : Title of second play through to first named actor ..

Alternate Title:

Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly; Uncle Tom's cabin; Life among the lowly

Name:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date:

1869

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:

Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.); Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin; Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens; Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Theaters; Playbills

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Broadsides; 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: December 1, 1869.; Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 104 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. 104

Collection:

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