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Ralph Chessé and Blanding Sloan puppet theater production handbills [graphic].
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Title:
Ralph Chessé and Blanding Sloan puppet theater production handbillsCreator/Contributor:
Chessé, Ralph., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Sloan, Blanding, 1886-1975Creator/Contributor:
Cutting, Marilla W.Abstract:
Includes pictorial handbills, mostly woodcut prints, advertising various San Francisco productions of Ralph Chessé's Marionette
Playhouse Club (566 Merchant St.) and the Blanding Sloan Puppet Theatre (718 Montgomery St.). Also includes handbill for the
Puppet Players (688 Filbert St.), and programs for productions by the Playshop (3150 Jackson St.) and the Federal Theatre
(960 Bush St.).
Date:
ca. 1935-ca. 1940? (issued)Subject:
n-us-caTheater -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Puppet theater -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Note:
Prints unsigned, but presumably created by Chessé and Sloan for their respective troupes.
Collected by Marilla W. Cutting (original addressee of many of the handbills).
Title devised by cataloger.
Type:
graphicHandbills-California-San Francisco.
Theater programs-California-San Francisco.
Woodcuts.
Physical Description:
graphic
print
3 folders (12 prints) : chiefly woodcut, color ; 31 x 23 cm or smaller.
Language:
English