http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z321cb Online items available Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Prints and Ephemera The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email:
[email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2014 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Jay T. Last Collection of priJLC_ENT 1 Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera Overview of the Collection Title: Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera Dates (inclusive): 1839-approximately 1940 Bulk dates: 1870-1900 Collection Number: priJLC_ENT Collector: Last, Jay T. Extent: approximately 2,300 items Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Prints and Ephemera 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email:
[email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: The Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Performing Arts Prints and Ephemera contains more than 2,300 printed items primarily advertising theatrical and musical entertainment and related performers in the United States from 1839 to the 1940s, with the majority of items dating from the 1870s to the 1890s. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations pertaining to a wide variety of performance genres that have been grouped broadly as music and theater (including theater, music, dance, burlesque, comedy, pantomime, and variety); minstrel (including minstrel shows, blackface entertainers, and female minstrels); and magic and miscellaneous (including magicians, motion pictures, and Wild West shows).