Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Burton, Lizzie.

Description

1. .88 linear foot (3 boxes)

Summary

1. Sisters Carrie and Lizzie Burton were comic opera singers who performed predominantly throughout New York and New England in the late 1800s. The collection documents the professional lives of the Burton sisters through photographs, correspondence, performance programs, fliers, sheet music, and a scrapbook of press clippings.

Subject

1. Opera > 19th century
2. Sheet music
3. Fliers
4. Women in operetta
5. Women in opera
6. Cabinet photographs
7. Operetta
8. Morsell, Herndon, 1858-1937
9. Card photographs

Genre/Form

1. Cabinet photographs.
2. Card photographs.
3. Fliers.
4. Sheet music.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 1997-031

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying and photography will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Terms of use (note)

1. For permission to publish, contact the Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Author

1. Burton, Carrie.

Title

1. Carrie and Lizzie Burton papers, 1878-1891.

Restricted access

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying and photography will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Terms of use

1. For permission to publish, contact the Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid
2. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Burton, Lizzie.

Research call number

1. *T-Mss 1997-031