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Collection Overview
- 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.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- 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 LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxr): Box 1-8
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- Subject Terms:
- Playbills -- Belgium -- 20th century.
Playbills -- China -- 20th century.
Playbills -- Denmark -- 20th century.
Playbills -- England -- 20th century.
Playbills -- Greece -- 20th century.
Playbills -- Holland -- 20th century.
Playbills -- Japan -- 20th century.
Playbills -- Turkey -- 20th century.
Playbills -- United States -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Playbills.
