Walnut Street Theatre. Philadelphia, June 7, 1870. Eighth Night Of The World-Renowned Comedian, Mr. Joseph Jefferson In his Exquisitely Beautiful and Masterly Impersonaiion of Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Received Nightly by Large and Brilliant Audiences, and the most Enthusiastic Applause. Tuesday Evening, June 7th, 1870, The performance will commence at eight o'clock, with Overture--"Rip Van Winkle," Reviere, After which will be presented Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, entitled Rip Van Winkle Or, The Sleep of Twenty Years. Act First. Rip Van Winkle, Joseph Jefferson ..
- Alternate Title
- Rip Van Winkle Or, The Sleep of Twenty Years
- Rip Van Winkle
- Sleep of Twenty Years
- Creator
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905 (actor)
- Form
- books
- broadsides (notices)
- playbills
- Castlists
- Date
- 1870
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890. Rip Van Winkle, or, The sleep of twenty years
- 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: June 7, 1870.
- 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."
- Print Collection 8 copy is v. 11 no. 291 in a collection of playbills bound together.
- Related Work: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Rip Van Winkle.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3v697
- 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. 291
- 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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