Research Catalog

Title

Edward Harrigan clippings and ephemera.

Publication

1800-1960.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911
• Hart, Tony, 1855-1891
• Yeamans, Annie, 1835-1912
• Braham, David, 1838-1905
• Russell, Annie, 1864-1936
• Walsh, Townsend
• Logan, Nedda Harrigan
• Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916

Description

1 box : illustrations; .42 linear feet.

Summary

Clippings and ephemera in ten folders documenting the life and career of Edward Harrigan, with obituaries, broadsides and programs, half-tone photographs and caricatures, and fragments of color prints and sheet music. Includes material about the Harrigan & Hart team and associated performers like Annie Yeamans.

Donor/Sponsor

In honor of George Freedley

Subjects

• Playbills
• Ethnic theater
• Musical theater
• Printed ephemera
• Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > 19th century
• Actors > Caricatures and cartoons
• Theater programs
• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911 > Mulligan guard series
• Harrigan & Hart
• Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911, > actor, > author
• Working class > Drama
• Clippings
• McLoughlin Bros
• Marginalia

Genre/Form

• Printed ephemera.
• Theater programs.
• Playbills.
• Clippings.
• Marginalia.

Note

• Folder 2 contains a portion of a program from Palmer's Theatre (N.Y.) for a "testimonial performance," in which Edward Harrigan and other popular stars appeared, as a benefit for Annie Russell, February 10, 1891.
• Folder 5 contains an undated half-tone image, with caption, of the London-born banjo player and singer, Ada Wray.
• Folder 9 contains a publicity card addressed to Townsend Walsh from H.S. Renton depicting Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart in costume as the Mulligan Guards. Also included is a copy of the illustrated children's story and song book, Ten Little Mulligan Guards, with lyrics inspired by Edward Harrigan and music by David Braham, published by McLoughlin Brothers in the mid-1870s. The book, which contains racist imagery of African Americans, is addressed to Townsend Walsh "from Auntie, Dec. 25th, 1870," and is copiously decorated with drawings in pencil by a child.
• Folder 10 contains a scrapbook fragment with clippings and obituaries, including a feature article by Richard Harding Davis entitled Edward Harrigan and the East Side, about New York City immigrant culture in Harrigan's youth, Harper's Weekly, March 21, 1891.
• Compiled by The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

• Some material is the gift of Nedda Harrigan Logan and may be related to the Edward Harrigan papers held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division in *T-Mss 1941-003.

Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 27822

OCLC

1061504434

Title

Edward Harrigan clippings and ephemera.

Publisher

1800-1960.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Source

Some material is the gift of Nedda Harrigan Logan and may be related to the Edward Harrigan papers held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division in *T-Mss 1941-003.

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Added Author

Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911, actor, author.

Hart, Tony, 1855-1891, actor, author.

Yeamans, Annie, 1835-1912, actor.

Braham, David, 1838-1905, composer.

Russell, Annie, 1864-1936, honoree.

Walsh, Townsend, former owner.

Logan, Nedda Harrigan, former owner.

Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916, author. Edward Harrigan and the East Side.

Research Call Number

MWEZ+ n.c. 27822