Boston Theatre and Opera House (Washington Street) Collection
Collection — Container: MS Th. 2
Call Number: MS Th. 2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the construction and design of the theatre building. Contracts, design proposals and drawings of the sites are included.
Dates
- 1847-1855
Creator
- Boston Theatre and Opera House (Washington Street) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Items in this collection may be subject to copyright restrictions. In most cases, the Boston Public Library does not hold the copyright to the items in our collections. It is the sole responsibility of the user to make their own determination about what types of usage might be permissible under U.S. and international copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
The Boston Theatre and Opera House, incorporated on May 20, 1853, was designed by architects Edward Clark and James Elliot Cabot of Brookline. The 3,000 seat venue opened on September 11, 1854. Sarah Bernhardt and Edwin Booth were among the actors who performed there and it was was also where Bostonians first heard Beethoven’s Fidelio in 1854 and Carmen in 1879.
Extent
26.00 Items
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Processing Information
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department staff.
Processing Information
This electronic finding aid is transcribed from legacy data. In many cases, transcriptions were not verified against collection materials at the time of transcription. As a result, this finding aid could be incomplete and might only reflect a partial understanding of the material.
Statement on harmful description
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Creator
- Boston Theatre and Opera House (Washington Street) (Organization)
- Title
- Boston Theatre and Opera House (Washington Street) Collection
- Date
- 01/15/2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2020-06: Updated by Kimberly Reynolds, June 2020.
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