Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, December 4, 1869. Last Night of 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. Saturday Evening, Dec'ber 4, 1869, The performance will commence at 1/4 to 8 o'clk, 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 ..

Alternate Title
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
Uncle Tom's cabin
Life among the lowly
Creator
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Form
books
broadsides (notices)
playbills
Castlists
Date
1869
Language
English
Subject
Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Theaters
Playbills
Geographic Subject
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Collection
Playbill and Program Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Philadelphia Theater Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 22.8 x 14 cm
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Related Place
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Notes
Printed area measures 21.5 x 12.8 cm.
Performance date: December 4, 1869.
Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 108 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."
Related works
Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ff3mb0k
Also listed in
Penn Libraries Catalog
Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, Print Collection 8 v. 11 no. 108
Provenance
Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930 (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Print Collection 8 copy)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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