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Institution names followed by SIBMAS Member  are members of SIBMAS

Harvard University
Houghton Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts 		 
 
Cambridge, MA 02138 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 495- 2441
Telefax: +1 (617) 495- 1376

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre.
Media:
Books.
Special Collections:
Playbills, American (18-19th century)

American Circus [playbills]
Annapolis Theatre [playbills]
Boston Theatre [playbills]
Chestnut Street Theatre [playbills]
Federal Street Theater [playbills]
Front Street Theatre [playbills]
Portland Theatre [playbills]
Portsmouth Theatre [playbills]
Providence Theatre [playbills]

Harvard University
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
      Date founded: 1956 		 
 
North Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 495 2794
Telefax: +1 (617) 496 4636
E-mail: muslib@fas.harvard.edu
Homepage: http://www-hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Archive of World Music

Isham Memorial Library

Harvard University
Nathan Marsh Pusey Library
Harvard Theatre Collection
      Date founded: 1901 		SIBMAS Member
 
Cambridge, MA 02138 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 495 2445
Telefax: +1 (617) 496 5786
E-mail: htc@harvard.edu
Homepage: http://htc.harvard.edu/
Monday: 13:00-16:45
Tuesday: 13:00-16:45
Wednesday: 13:00-16:45
Thursday: 13:00-16:45
Friday: 13:00-16:45

Written application required. Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Other
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. By company.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Pantomime/mime. Children's theatre. Puppet theatre. Cabaret/Kabaret. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Circus. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations. Other.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans. Costumes. Models. Videos/films/DVDs. Official documents. Scores/libretti/music. Masks. Paintings. Graphics. Statuary. Objects d'art. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs. Production material.
Special Collections:
Dance, contemporary
Dance, modern
Opera ballet (French)
Opera ballet (Italian)

Abbey Theatre (Dublin)
Adelphi Theatre (London)
Argyle Theatre (Birkenhead, England)
Bijou Theatre (Boston)
Brattle Theatre (Cambridge)
Cambridge Drama Festival
Drury Lane Theatre (London)
Federal Street Theatre (Boston)
Hasty Pudding Club
Hasty Pudding Theatricals
International Ballet (London)
Jacob's Pillow Dance Center [photographs]
Poet's Theatre (Cambridge)
Tremont Theatre (Boston)
Vauxhall Gardens (London)
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation

Maude Adams, actress
Robert Anderson, playwright
Nathan Appell, theatrical manager
Julia Arthur, actress
George Pierce Baker (1866-1935), educator [papers]
George Balancine, choreographer, dancer
Lucinda Ballard, costume designer
George Brinton Beal [circus collection]
Samuel Beckett, playwright
Sarah Bernhardt [i.e. Rosine Bernard] (1844-1923), actress
Edwin Binney
Stella Bloch, dancer, artist
Edwin Thomas Booth (1833-1893), actor
John Mason Brown, critic
Mrs. Partick Campbell [i.e. Beatrice Stella Tanner] (1865-1940), actress
George Chaffee [ballet history]
William Como, dance editor, critic [contemporary dance collection]
Edward Gordon Craig, designer, writer
Babette Craven [collection of figurines]
Nym Crinkle, critic
H.W.L. Dana [Russian theatre]
Fanny Davenport, actress
Allison Delarue [collection of figurines]
Sergei Pavlovic Diaghilev (1872-1929), choreographer
Charles Dibdin, composer
Raymond Ellis [toy theatre collection]
Florrie Forde, music hall artiste
David Garrick, actor-manager
Serge Grigoriev, ballet master
Al Hirschfeld
Harry Houdini (1874-1926), magician
George Hoyningen-Huene, photographer
Mona Ingelsby [International Ballet Company]
Alix Jeffry, photographer [images of the Off-Broadway stage]
Frederick R. Koch [collection]
Theodore Komisarjevsky, director, designer
Victor Leon [operetta photograph collection]
John Lindquist [photographs of Jacob's Pillow Dance Center]
Rober W. Lowe, bibliographer [library]
Percy MacKaye, playwright [papers]
George Marek [collection of Shakespeare figurines]
Bruce Marks, dancer, administrator
Joseph W. Marks III, dance administrator
Timothy S. Mayer, playwright, director
Angus McBean, photographer [photographs of the London stage]
Eugene O'Neill, playwright
Jacob Pillow [modern dance collection]
Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers [pseud: Clara Doria] (1844-1931), composer, singer
Henry Munroe Rogers (1839-1937), collector
Howard D. Rothschild [Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev]
John Russell [collection of Viennese porcelain]
Rita Russell [collection of Viennese porcelain]
Melvin R. Seiden [drawings by Al Hirschfeld]
Sergejev, Nicolai, dancer, choreographer [Ballets Russes]
Robert Gould Shaw, curator [theatre history collection]
Edward Sheldon, playwright
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright
Neil Simon, playwright
Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress
Otis Skinner, actor
Wole Soyinka, playwright
Norma McLain Stoop, arts editor, author, photographer
John Thayer [photograph collectioni of film actors and scenes]
Violette Verdy, dancer, dance educator
Edwin Vose [sheet music collection]
Joseph E. Waitt, collector [Harry Houdini collection, 1900-1928]
John M. Ward [collection of music for dance and the theatre]
Ruth N. Ward [collection of music for dance and the theatre]
Jay Weiss [collection on P.G. Wodehouse]
Evert Jansen Wendell [theatre collection]
E. Virginia Williams
Tennessee Williams, playwright
Robert Wilson, director
Marian Hannah Winter, collection on popular entertainment
Rose Winter
P.G. Wodehouse

Longy School of Music
Bakalar Library
      Date founded: 1915 		 
 
One Follen Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 876 0956 ext 540
Telefax: +1 (617) 354 8841
E-mail: rrudolph@longy.edu

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Biggs, Edward George Power (1906-1977), organist
Nadia Juliette Boulanger (1887-1979), conductor, musician
Margaret Daniels-Girard [Baroque dance collection]
Longy Archives Collection

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lewis Music Library 		 
 
Room 14E-108
Cambridge, MA 02139 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 253 5636
Telefax: +1 (617) 253 3109
Homepage: http://libraries.mit.edu/music/

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Sound recordings/CDs.

Index:

Institution names followed by SIBMAS Member  are members of SIBMAS

 

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