This collection includes production photographs for Old Globe Theatre stage productions dating from 1935-1987.  They are filed chronologically, with photographs from each year's Shakespeare Festival grouped together at the end, also filed chronologically.

The Old Globe Theatre opened for the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition on May 29, 1935, and is California's oldest professional theater. The Old Globe and its two neighboring buildings, Ye Olde Gift Shoppe and the Falstaff Tavern were temporary structures and by agreement were to be demolished at the end of the Exposition. Local citizens raised $10,000 in 1936 to have the buildings remodeled to conform to existing building codes and fire regulations.

22.50 linear ft

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