Learned supplementary collection on German-language theater, 1865-1908.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Learned, Marion Dexter, 1857-1917, collector.

Contributor:

Bloch, Theodor, b . 1832, former owner.

Dickinson College. Library, former owner.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Theater--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century.

Theater.

Germania Theater (Philadelpia, Pa.).

Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Scripts.

Playbills.

Prompt books.

Librettos (documents for music)

Scores (documents for music)

Programs.

Scrapbooks.

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Transferred/donated to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.).

Physical Description:

22 boxes

Place of Publication:

1865-1908.

Language Note:

In German.

Biography/History:

Learned was a professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1917, serving as the department's first chair.

Summary:

Collection assembled by Learned on German-language theater performed in Philadelphia in the last quarter of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century. Among the materials documenting twelve plays are annoted published texts, manuscript role books, playbills, and music, although not all forms of material exist for each title. Also included in the collection are scrapbooks of (1) newspaper clippings documenting the history of the German-language theater in Philadelphia, in particular the years 1870 to 1894, and (2) programs for the Arch Street Deutsches Theater Programm, 1901-1904, 1907-1908. The majority of the collection was originally the property of Theodor Bloch, a German immigrant who was active in German-language theater in Philadelphia from approximately the mid-1860s until at least 1895.

Contents:

Box 1: Graupenmüller; Box 2: Hendemann und Sohn; Box 3: Der Jongleur; Box 4: Kläffer; Box 5: Klein Geld; Box 6: Eine leichte Person; Box 7: Der letzte Thaler; Box 8: Das Mädel ohne Geld; Box 9: Moses und Propheten; Box 10: Sodom und Gomorrah; Box 11: Die Spitzenkönigen; Box 12: Undine, oder: Eine verlorene Seele, and MIscellaneous material; Box 13: Scrapbooks; Box 14: Scrapbooks, 1870-1877; Box 15: Scrapbooks 1876-1877; Box 16: Scrapbooks, 1879-1880; Box 17: Scrapbooks, 1881; Box 18: Scrapbooks, 1882-1890; Box 19: Scrapbooks, 1891-1892; Box 20: Scrapbooks, 1892-1893; Box 21: Scrapbooks, 1893-1894; Box 22; programs of the Arch St. Deutsches Theater Programm, 1901-1904, 1907-1908.

Notes:

See also Ms. Coll. 638: Learned Collection on German-Language Theater, 1832-1898 (bulk 1873-1895).

Contains:

Berg, O. F. (Ottokar Franz), 1833-1886. Mädel ohne Geld.

Salingré, Hermann. Graupenmüller.

Bittner, Anton. Leichte Person.

Pohl, Emil. Leichte Person.

Wilken, Heinrich. Kläffer.

L'Arronge, Adolph, 1838-1908. Kläffer.

Jacobson, Eduard, 1833-1897. Moses und Propheten.

Schönthan, Franz von, 1849-1913. Sodom und Gomorrha.

Wollheim da Fonseca, A. E. (Anton Edmund), 1810-1884. Undine, oder: Eine verlorene Seele.

Müller, Hugo, 1831-1882. Spitzenkönigin.

L'Arronge, Adolph, 1838-1908. Spitzenkönigin.

Pohl, Emil. Jongleur.

Pohl, Emil. Klein Geld.

Görner, C. A. (Carl August), 1806-1884. Letzte Thaler.

Dohm, Ernst, 1819-1883. Letzte Thaler.

Müller, Hugo. Hendemann und Sohn.

Pohl, Emil. Hendemann und Sohn.

OCLC:

806087907