$30.00 CAD
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Apart from the programme information, a great snapshot of upper class lifestyle in 1900s Boston. A lot of car advertising!
‘Household Hints’…”When you wash your lamp chimneys lift them out of the water and set them o the stove…don’t scrub the nice new oilcloth with hot water and soapsuds…”
‘Fall Cravats’…”For fall there will be, with some few notable exeptions, very little change in the general style of the cravattings which have been prevailing for the past six months…”
‘A Short Story…’
FULL of advertising: Boston Confectionery Co, Whitten- Gilmore (Thomas Flyer auto), Enterprise Rubber, Stoddard-Dayton (auto),Taxicab, The Stearns (stock car), Fiat (car), Schmelzinger’s Vacuum Cleaning, Stevens=Duryea (auto), Acme motor cars, Mosely Foot Wear, Packard (auto), Rockefellers Cigars, Gillette Safety Razor, Lozier Cars, Housman’s Cafe, Matheson (auto), Barker’s Tooth Powder, For CONGRESS John A Keliher,etc…
On back cover, advertising for VOSE pianos.
40 pages + covers
7 ¾” x 5 ⅛”
The Tremont Theatre (est. 1889) was a playhouse in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry E. Abbey and John B. Schoeffel established the enterprise and oversaw construction of its building at no.176 Tremont Street in the Boston Theater District area. Managers included Abbey, Schoeffel and Grau, Klaw & Erlanger, Thos. B. Lothan and Albert M. Sheehan.
A traveller's guidebook described the space in 1899: "The auditorium is 75 feet high of the same width and 80 feet deep. It is fashioned on the plan of a mammoth shell. ... The ten oddly fashioned private boxes on either side of the proscenium give a novel effect to the interior. The decoration of the main ceiling is modernized Renaissance treated in Gobelin tapestry effect and the coloring of the walls is in harmonizing shades. The stage is 73 by 45 feet, with a height of 69 feet to the rigging loft. The house has 2,000 seats."
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