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Creator:
Motter, T. H. Vail
Title:
T. H. Vail Motter Playbills Collection
Repository:
Rare Book Division
Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p8418n24v
Dates:
1900-1969 (mostly 1913-1959)
Size:
8 boxes and 5.7 linear feet
Storage Note:
  • ReCAP (scarcpxr): Box 1-8
Language:
English

Abstract

The collection consists mainly of playbills of American dramatic productions covering over forty-five years of play-going by T. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) but includes some early 20th-century playbills from the London theater as well as foreign playbills from Greece, Turkey, Belgium, China, Japan, Denmark, Holland, and England.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Consists mainly of playbills of American dramatic productions covering over forty-five years of play-going by Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) but includes some early 20th-century playbills from the London theater as well as foreign playbills from Greece, Turkey, Belgium, China, Japan, Denmark, Holland, and England.

Arrangement

Arranged in this order: boxed--American (1900-1965), foreign (1959-1960); loose--1967-1969.

Collection Creator Biography:

Motter, T. H. Vail

T. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) received a Ph.D. from Yale University and spent two years in the Middle East during World War II, prior to serving as Chief of Middle East Section, Office of the Chief of Military History.


Motter, T. H. Vail

T. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) received a Ph.D. from Yale University and spent two years in the Middle East during World War II, prior to serving as Chief of Middle East Section, Office of the Chief of Military History.

Collection History

Processing Information

This collection was processed in 2002.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research use.

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Credit this material:

T. H. Vail Motter Playbills Collection; Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Permanent URL:
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p8418n24v
Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Storage Note:
  • ReCAP (scarcpxr): Box 1-8