ephemera

just arrived today, hooray!

received in the mail today!!

Kyrle Bellew in The Builder of Bridges, (1909).

After a time where I imagined these lost given it was a day short of an entire month of no updates and when called the post office said it wasn’t in the country even though both sides said it was—they arrived! Thrilled to bits!!

Got this programme for my birthday!! In His Power, (13 February 1885).

got this magazine today, (1894).

A banner Bellew day as I got this in the mail!

Got this book yesterday! It’s fully massive! It weighs FIVE POUNDS! It has Kyrle Bellew in it, but also a bunch of other actors, too, so it’ll be interesting to delve into!

Got this broadsheet from eBay a couple days ago. It was listed as a playbill! First broadsheet of his (and Frank’s!) unless I’ve forgotten another. It’s The Scandal, (1910) (Research shows a more precise dating of October 1910 with 16 performances).

got this today in the mail. slightly frustrating it was bent in half but wahey!

Part 2 of The Thief souvenir programme, (16th January, 1908).

Super stoked to find this souvenir programme of The Thief, which I had no idea even existed until I...saw it. It was listed as a playbill, and I was hesitant to look as I already have two playbills of The Thief, but I’m so glad I did becos this is no playbill! Part 1 of 2 postings as there were so many pictures. (16th January, 1908).

Kyrle Bellew in The Lady of Lyons with High Life Below Stairs as a curtain raiser, (5 June 1879).

y’all I forgot about this somehow I—. Kyrle Bellew in Raffles, (1903).

A record of a playgoer’s experience, complete with partial playbills, signatures, and their thoughts on the plays. The collection includes a partial playbill of Raffles, along with Kyrle Bellew’s signature, (6 February 1906).

Playbill of The Thief, (from the week of 3 February 1908).