Programs (documents)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief outlines or explanations of the order to be pursued, criteria for participation, or the subjects embraced in a given event or endeavor. Includes lists of the features composing a dramatic or other performance, with the names of participants.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Purdue University Harlequin Club collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 173
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Harlequin Club collection contains programs and sheet music from the productions held by the club. Several of the productions are based on books and lyrics written by Purdue alummus and playwright, George Ade. The programs also feature some of the businesses in the area during the early 1900s. There is one button, "Wintergreen for President," from the Harlequin Show, "Of Thee I Sing," undated.
Dates:
1904 - 1951
Purdue Club of Chicago scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 216
Scope and Contents
The Purdue Club of Chicago scrapbook (1885-1980; .45 cubic feet) documents the early years of the Purdue Club of Chicago. The collection primarily details alumni events and member organizing from 1890-1919. Several high-profile alumni lived in the Chicago area at this time including George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, and William F. Goss, and various materials created by or for them are included in this collection—Ade’s letters are of particular interest. The printed ephemera within the scrapbook...
Dates:
1885 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1919