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- Description:
- Program booklet for the first pair of symphony concerts of the seventh season of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra scheduled for October 23rd and 24th, 1920. Program notes, essays on orchestral instruments, a list of members of the Detroit Symphony Society, a series of black and white photos of objects in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and advertisements are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program for Detroit Opera House performance of "Mr. Henry Miller" beginning October 31, 1898; listings for performances of "The Master," and "Heartsease" are also included; Front cover features a color illustration of Detroit Opera House facade; illustration housed in a decorative gold setting of acanthus leaves sitting in front of a Corinthian column; "Detroit Opera House" in green, black, and gold lettering; C.J. Whitney, proprietor"
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Trade card advertising the Detroit Opera House with a lithograph of the building on Campus Martius. "J.W. Lanergan, Lessee & Manager," is printed below.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program book for performance of "The Hotel Mouse" at the Garrick Theatre during the week of September 24, 1922; color cover with illustration of a woman in period dress with two servants framed by an oval; in small oval underneath "Arriving at the play in the time of David Garrick"; "Direction of Lee and J.J. Shubert;" back cover: advertisement for The Brunswick Shop; neoclassical architecture with illustration of store containing five people; underneath illustration "Discriminating buyers of phonographs patronize the Brunswick shop."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program handbill for a performance of "The Awakening of Helena Richie," at the Detroit Opera House from May 16 to 18, 1910. An advertisement for the National Silk Company is printed at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville show at the Temple Theatre. Frank and Milt Britton, "the Two Jazz Beaux;" The Dorans, Ray and Frank; Edwin George; Harry Holman and Company; Margaret Ford; Blossom Seeley; Homer Dickinson and Gracie Deagon; May Wirth; and the Pathe News are billed. Information on an upcoming show, and advertisements are also contained within. An illustration of a woman clad in a toga and a laurel wreath supporting a shield-shaped field which reads, "Refined Vaudeville Season 1919-1920," is printed on the cover above an advertisement for The Pathe Shop. "Senior Day - Jan 1920, the whole class went to see the show - in place of clapping there was cheering," is handwritten on the cover in pencil.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for a production of "Terence," at the Detroit Opera House beginning November 2, 1903. An illustration of the ruins of a Roman amphitheater is on the cover. Information on the production and numerous advertisements--including ones for Siegel's, Oxford Flakes, Goebel's, the Washington Arcade, and the Detroit Salt Company--are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program for performance of "Way Down East" at the Detroit Opera House beginning February 27, 1899; program also contains scene synopses and advertisements, including those for upcoming performances by Madame Carreno, and of "A Virginia Courtship," and "The Head of the Family;" front cover features a black and white illustration of the facade of the Detroit Opera House; "C. J. Whitney, Proprietor"
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program booklet for performances of"The Intimate Strangers," featuring Billie Burke at New Detroit Opera House during the week of April 4, 1922; both covers missing; front page: advertisement for B. Siegel Company; illustration of woman in dress with fan and scarf facing backwards; "An Entire New Display of Late Spring Garments"; back page: advertisements for David Belais' White Gold and Florentine Room of Hotel Addison; illustration of Florentine Room in Hotel Addison, couples dining and dancing; other advertisements included throughout.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Program for a performance of the plays, "Uncle's Will!" and "Champagne and Oysters" held on April, 29th, 1885, and billed within as possibly "the last in history of the Detroit Opera House." The program consists of three cardstock and one cloth disc bound by a piece of beige braided string. The cover consists of a beige, pink, and golden frame through with an engraving of Charles A. Shaw, printed on the cloth disc below is visible. Beneath the frame, the cloth disc is also printed with the signature, "Yours Truly, C.A. Shaw." The engraving is credited to Aldine Printing. The second cardstock to which the cloth disc is glued at the top bares and engraving of the exterior of the Detroit Opera House on the recto and a passage entitled, "Farewell," on the verso. The passage concerns the history of the Opera House, and the present whereabouts of the cast of its first production, "London Assurance," on March 29, 1869. The final disc contains the program for the two plays on the recto. An image of a winged head from which tears fall onto a phrase partially obscured by tape, beginning with the word, "farewell," is printed in gold and blue on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
