Performing Arts Collection [textual records, graphic material, sound recording]

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Performing Arts Collection [textual records, graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1826-1995.

Reference:

R3376-0-9-E, MG28-I139

Type of material:

Textual material, Art, Photographs, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106737

Context of this record:

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Performing Arts Collection
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Collection includes:

122 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1826-1995.

Bilingual equivalent:

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Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

13.642 m of textual records.
755 prints.
261 photographs : b&w and col.
1 audio cassette (15 min).

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

Accession:

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Performing Arts Collection [textual record]

Scope and content:

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Collection consists of performing arts programmes and promotional material documenting both amateur and professional performing arts across Canada. The emphasis is on theatre, but included is material on dance, music, and other public entertainments. The material includes historical playbills and broadsides as well as modern day programmes, calendars, press releases, posters and still photographs.

The collection also contains posters depicting various plays and productions performed at venues across Canada.

In addition, the collection includes photographic material depicting drama, opera, ballet, and music productions across Canada; portrait of Brian Richmond, Artistic Director, Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Collection also includes a sound recording of promotional material for a show entitled A trip to the farm.

Provenance:

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Canada. Performing Arts

Biography/Administrative history:

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Canada. Performing Arts : In 1972, the National Archives of Canada began a project to assemble performing arts programmes and promotional material from a variety of sources in an effort to preserve Canadian performing arts ephemera for historical research. At the beginning, selected theatres sent the National Archives collections of back materials as well as current programmes and publicity material, some of which was sent on a monthly basis, some at the end of each season, and some when the theatres remembered. In 1980, an effort was made to be more comprehensive in collecting this material and approximately 190 performing arts centres and companies across Canada were contacted with the request that the National Archives be placed on their mailing lists. As a result, the Archives began receiving programmes and publicity material, including press releases, monthly calendars, posters and publicity stills, on a more regular basis. Throughout the period, small collections of privately collected playbills were received from various individual donors and occasionally items were purchased through dealers, and this material, too, was added to the collection. In 1986, in another effort to build the Performing Arts Collection, old contacts were renewed and new centres and companies were contacted, with a total of some 350 organizations being approached for material. In 1995, however, as a result of cutbacks in resources at the National Archives, the decision was taken to discontinue the collection of performing arts ephemera and to concentrate instead on the preservation of selected individual and organizational archival fonds.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid comprises an alphabetical list by city and theatre of material in the Programmes and promotional material series. MSS0569

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS0569
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000087.pdf

Photographs: (Paper) See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

Additional information:

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General Note:

Acquired from various performing arts centres and companies, as well as from various individuals and other private sources, largely between 1972 and 1995. Additional material was received from the Music Division of the National Library of Canada in 1991 and 1993 and, also in 1993, from the family of Louis Beauregard-Champagne and Juliette Joubert of Montreal. Further material was received from Mary Shortt of Toronto and Judith Lian of Orleans, Ontario, in 1994., See accession records for further information related to media material.
Subject heading:

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Performing arts - Canada, 1826-1991 Grand Musical Festival, 1860

Theatre - Canada, 1826-1991 Salle Academique du College Ste-Marie (Montreal, Quebec), 1867

Montreal (Quebec) - Broadsides, 1826-1888 St. Mary's English Academy (Montreal, Quebec), 1865

Montreal (Quebec) - Theatre, 1826-1888 Salle Nordheimer (Montreal, Quebec), 1865

Ottawa (Ont.) - Opera, 1904-1936 Crystal Palace (Montreal, Quebec), 1865

Toronto (Ont.) - Opera, 1904-1936 Mardi Gras (Montreal, Quebec), [1864]

Toronto (Ont.) - Plays, 1904-1936 Salle Bonaventure (Montreal, Quebec), 1863

Toronto (Ont.) - Concerts, 1904-1936 Salle Bonsecours (Montreal, Quebec), 1861-1862

Ottawa (Ont.) - Concerts, 1904-1936 City Concert Hall (Montreal, Quebec), 1855

Ottawa (Ont.) - Plays, 1904-1936 Theatre Royal (Montreal, Quebec), 1826, [1864]-1865

Concerts - Programs, 1904-1936
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-06-02)
018-88
072-88
078-89
118-080021-4
118-080084-2
118-080093-1
118-080094-X
118-080095-8
118-080103-2
118-080195-4
118-080301-9
119-020201-8
119-080182-5
120-080047-8
121-020050-3
121-020151-8
121-020318-9
122-020023-9
155-88
162-88
165-88
167-89
173-88
179-89
1972-053 PIC
1973-038 PIC
1973-064 PIC
1973-071 PIC
1973-096 PIC
1973-415 NPC
1974-003 PIC
1974-006 PIC
1974-011 PIC
1974-017 PIC
1974-021 PIC
1974-031 PIC
1974-036 PIC
1976-065 NPC
1976-066 PIC
1976-075 PIC
1976-101 PIC
1977-016 PIC
1977-37 DAP
1978-010 PIC
1978-022 PIC
1978-028 PIC
1978-038 PIC
1978-051 PIC
1978-052 PIC
1978-2 DAP
1979-001 PIC
1979-006 PIC
1979-011 PIC
1979-017 PIC
1979-018 PIC
1979-023 PIC
1979-024 PIC
1979-040 PIC
1979-044 PIC
1979-045 PIC
1979-065 PIC
1979-066 PIC
1979-080 PIC
1980-0029 MISA
1980-028 PIC
1980-050 PIC
1980-073 PIC
1980-092 NPC
1980-095 PIC
1980-170 NPC
1981-077 PIC
1981-079 PIC
1981-082 PIC
1982-020 PIC
1982-065 PIC
1982-104 PIC
1983-154 PIC
1983-156 PIC
1983-234 NPC
1984-083 PIC
1984-089 PIC
1984-096 PIC
1984-126 PIC
1984-170 PIC
1984-171 PIC
1984-187 PIC
1984-195 PIC
1985-002 PIC
1985-075 PIC
1986-099 NPC
1987-179 NPC
1987/0246
1988-139 DAP
1988-140 DAP
1988-141 DAP
1988-142 DAP
1988-149 DAP
1988-150 DAP
1988-151 DAP
1988-152 DAP
1988-154 DAP
1988-155 DAP
1988-157 DAP
1988-163 DAP
1989-069 DAP
1989-070 DAP
1989-071 DAP
1989-072 DAP
1989-076 DAP
1989-079 DAP
1989-081 DAP
1989-084 DAP
1989-085 DAP
1989-095 DAP
1989-354 DAP
1989-362 DAP
1989-367 DAP
1989-368 DAP
1989-474 DAP
1989-576 DAP
1989-577 DAP
1990-179 DAP
1990-268 DAP
1990-271 DAP
1990-272 DAP
1990-274 DAP
1990-297 DAP
1990-502 DAP
1991-010 DAP
1991/0201
1992-378 DAP
1992-516 DAP
1993-394 DAP
1993/0224 (1993-07-27)
1993/0261
1993/0262
1994-381 DAP
1994/0037
1994/0137
2000-00768-6
2000-00862-3
240-88
269-87
278-89
281-87
294-88
327-88
345-89
368-88
418-89
426-89
90-131
90-156
90-168
90-171
90-185
90-256
90-295
91-003
91-133
93-218
94-070
MG28-I139

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MG28-I139
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000130.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 569] 56

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1974-011]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A236 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Prints: Restrictions on prints are either open or to be determined; see individual items. Various copyrights.
Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada.
Sound recording: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder.

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