Arrangement
Organized into four series: Playbills, Other Performances, Playbill
Magazine, and Scrapbook.
Biographical Note
Edwin S. Childs of State College, Pennsylvania, began attending plays,
concerts, and theatricals since he was a boy. His grandmother and aunt took him
into New York City every Saturday to improve his cultural education. Over fifty
years he attended hundred of plays and concerts, and kept all the Playbills
from every play he has seen, 1950-2000.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 508 Playbill programs for theatrical plays
in Boston, New York City, and State College, Pennsylvania, as well other
cities. There are ninety-four programs for ballets, bands, concerts, movie
specials, operas, orchestras, Radio City Music Hall, soloists, and special
events. Additionally, there is a run of
Playbill Magazine, March 1983-July 1985.
There is also a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about theatrical productions,
1961-1966.
The Playbills and Other Performances series are listed in a database
converted to HTML documents.
