Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Interest in the Robert Gould Shaw collections of memorabilia of the stage is steadily growing. Although the collection has been in the Widener Library only a few months its reputation as a storehouse of information on the drama is bringing an increasing number of students to the Library. One of Professor Baker's students recently found it unnecessary to go to England to revise the manuscript of his history of the English stage during a certain part of the nineteenth century; the exhibition enabled him to do this in Cambridge...
...memorabilia include dramatic prints and portraits, manuscripts, playbills, magazines, plays and biographies which Mr. Shaw has been collecting ever since his graduation in 1869. The cataloguing and indexing of the mass of material has been so systematic that almost any phase of dramatic activity during the past three centuries may be referred to at an instant's notice. The virtually complete annals of the Boston and New York stages are represented, while the theatrical history of the rest of the United States and of England are exceptionally well shown. France and Germany are not neglected. Especially noteworthy are the dramatic...
Exhibit of Memorabilia Continues...
...addition to the exercises this evening the exhibition of Dana memorabilia which has been shown in the Treasure Room of the Widener Memorial Library will be continued today and tomorrow...
Exhibition of Dana Memorabilia continues in Treasure Room of Library...