fORDS THEATER PLAYBILLS

[Rsmyth]

There are very few "originals" with most being in instututions, although a few are in "private collections." Famed collector William Lambert had a leather bound portfolio with examples of all of them but 2 years after his death (1916) they were parcelled out and auctioned off by Anderson Galleries of NYC. Likewise collector Oliver Barrett had a couple which are now circulating. Read Dave Taylors blog on the playbills which gives you a lot of great info. There were two different originals plus a Buckingham reprint on the same press as the originals and one printed by L. Brown Printers, Washington, DC including a host of contemporary forgeries.
Cornell Univ. has one, as does the Mass Historical Society. Library of Congress with the Rosenback Museum (Phila.) having a Buckingham reprint, which by the way is also rare and worth something.
If anyone else knows of one please let me know. Thanks.