Monthly Archive: July, 2019

The “Theatricals in Philadelphia” Scrapbooks: Or, How Yesterday’s Old Stuff Became the Treasure Trove of Today

The “Theatricals in Philadelphia” Scrapbooks: Or, How Yesterday’s Old Stuff Became the Treasure Trove of Today Luckily for us, Arthur H. Quinn thought differently. An English professor at Penn, Quinn (1875-1960) was in charge of what was then known as the Clothier Collection of American Drama of the University of Pennsylvania, a remarkable resource that, in 1918, was described as...