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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the entrance to the Princess Theatre. Signs read "Comfort; Elegance; Nothing Nicer Anywhere" and "The Show of Quality". Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 22, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Half folded program for All Star Paramount Week at the Lincoln Square Theatre beginning September 4, 1921; program is printed in black on beige and features little decorative illustration; at bottom of front cover, list of prices and times.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- Program booklet for a vaudeville performance at the Temple Theatre the week of May 24, 1920. The Temple Theatre Orchestra; the Tuscano Brothers; Sam Green and Mildred Myers; Ed Morton; "those French girls," the Amoras Sisters; Harry and Anna Seymour; William L. Gibson and Regina Connelli; Lillian Shaw; Paul, LeVan, and Miller; and the Free Press Film Edition are billed. The program also contains information about upcoming performances and numerous advertisements. The cover contains a grey image of a frieze of a procession of performers above a stage curtain.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Large half-folded newspaper-format program for the Lyceum Theatre spanning November 16-18, 1893, containing details about the play "The Wicklow Postman," and performances by opera diva Marie Tavary, as well as numerous advertisements.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of the exterior of the William Fox Washington Theatre, as taken from Washington Boulevard. Posters and lobby cards promoting the film, "The Town that Forgot God," are posted around the entrance. A phonograph's horn speaker and several books are displayed in the store window to the left of the theater. "1314-13," is printed in the lower right corner. A Commercial Photo Service Company stamp is on the verso. The photo is mounted on linen, with a flap on the left edge for binding it into a photo album.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for productions of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," and "The Comedy of Errors," beginning March 19, 1908, and at the Detroit Opera House. An illustration of a man in historical costume leaning beside an oil lamp beneath a banner that incorporates the masks of comedy and tragedy is on the cover beside an advertisement for Theodore C. Mau furs. Information on the production and numerous advertisements--including ones for Famabella Cigars, Siegel's, Grinnell Brothers, the Hotel Tuller, the Anderson Carriage Company's Detroit Electric cars, the Goebel Brewing Company, Stroh's, the Cadillac Motor Car Company, and the Chinese restaurants King Ying Lo and Tom Sun Lo--are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "The Union Spy" or "The Battle of Shiloh" at the Detroit Opera House from April 15-17, 1872; performed as a benefit to the Detroit Light Guard; first page contains basic production information as well as admission prices; subsequent pages contain act summaries and cast list as well as a variety of advertisements
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for performance of "Penelope" starring Marie Tempest beginning March 21, 1910 at the Detroit Opera House; contains character list, scene synopses, and musical program as well as advertisements; front cover features a color illustration of a road through a wooded area with a castle at top flanked by a man and woman in royal clothing and a jester underneath; advertisement for Hotel Pontchartrain on front cover
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photo of the exterior of the Theatre Comique as taken from a slightly elevated position across Broadway Street, facing southwest. A crowd is gathered in the street in front of the theater around an ornate carriage driven by a man wearing a high peaked hat, and carrying a pair of passengers in dress jackets and turbans, as part of a circus parade. A sign on the top of the carriage reads, "India." A Model T is parked in the foreground. Signs on the facade of the Theatre Comique declare, "Best show in town for the money," "Stay as long as you like," and "High class continuous performance." The Kaiserhof is visible on the left side of the theatre. Signs are posted on the building to the right, on the corner of Broadway and Gratiot Avenue for the Fisher Kline Company, photographers; Union Cut Rate Dentists; John Verbist, cigars, tobacco, candy and fruit; and the Gothic bar. Along the north side of Gratiot, Lou H. Weitz, clothier; and the Library Tea Store are visible. "28," is handwritten at the upper right corner of the recto and "1909," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
