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1889 PARK THEATER Boston GETTYSBURG & CUSTERS Battle PLAYBILL Actors COMEDY Play

$ 10.55

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
  • Time Period Manufactured: 1800-99
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Condition: This 132-year-old newspaper program measures 14x10 and is 4 pages long. There are tears and chipping along the edges along with yellowing of age and some toning. No writings or markings.

    Description

    The Park Theater, Boston Program for January 7- January 12, 1889
    The front page states that "Gettysburg is closed and will reopen on February 15th with Custer's Last Battle against the Sioux Indians, all Calvary, grand and dashing effects and scenery and truthfully portrayed".
    From Wikipedia:
    The
    Park Theatre
    (est.1879) was a playhouse in Boston
    , Massachusetts  in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It later became the
    State
    cinema.
    Located on Washington Street
    , near Boylston Street
    , the building existed until 1990.
    In 1879 Henry E. Abbey, proprietor of Abbey's Park Theater in New York, opened Boston's Park Theatre.
    Abbey was one half of the theatrical management firm Abbey and Schoeffel
    , along with his backer John B. Schoeffel
    . Schoeffel was assistant manager.
    It occupied the building of the former Beethoven Hall, "reconstructed and practically rebuilt;" its 1,184-seat auditorium was "60 feet wide, 63 from the state to the doors, and 50 feet high.
    CONDITION:
    This 132-year-old newspaper program measures 14x10 and is 4 pages long. There are tears and chipping along the edges along with yellowing of age and some toning. No writings or markings.