COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/0595
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: COOK COLLECTION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY THEATRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
Date(s)	: 1857-1869
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.07 linear metres.
Name of creator(s)	: Various.

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

These papers relating to cultural events were collected for their general or antiquarian interest and relevance to the subject, rather than having a united provenance (that is, being produced by the same institution or business).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of ephemera, 1857-1869 and undated {1850s-1860s}, largely printed, including playbills, programmes, song sheets, catalogues and guides, relating to events, including sport, music, fireworks, fountains and illuminations, at the Crystal Palace (Sydenham, Kent); to operas at the Royal English Opera and the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden (Westminster); and to theatrical, musical and other recreational events, including comedies, ballets, tableaux, dioramas, exhibitions, and popular scientific events, at various premises including in Westminster, St Marylebone, Paddington, St Pancras, St Giles in the Fields, South Kensington, Kew, and Greenwich.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Italian.

System of arrangement:

Where there is more than one document relating to the same premises they have been grouped together and numbered consecutively, with the groups as far as possible in chronological order. Single documents, relating to various premises, follow the groups, also in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in May 1956.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
August to October 2010.