- CA RBD RS001-III-T2-3
- Item
- between approximately 1900 and 1950
Webb's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Complete characters and scenes, uncut, mostly coloured, and bound together.
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Webb's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Complete characters and scenes, uncut, mostly coloured, and bound together.
Webb's Characters and Scenes in the Miller and his Men
Full printed colour title sheet and toy theatre characters. Characters have been cut out, and the title sheet has had characters cut out of it. The full title reads, "Webb's Characters & Scenes in the Miller and his Men, In 9 Plates of Characters, 11 Scenes, 1 Plate of Set Pieces, 1 Water Pieces and 4 Plates of Wings nos 1, 5, 29 & 30, With a book adapted only to the above."
Uncoloured characters, "Richard's Soldiers"
Includes uncoloured characters from M. & M. Skelt's "Richard's Soldiers," approximately 1840.
Two Sicilian child's puppets of knights in metal armour. Vertical rods to head and arm.
Two Saracen knights, characters from the marionette theatre of southern France, (Charlemagne legend). Simple string puppet.
Two glove puppets of Black women
Two glove puppets of Black women by Rosalynde Osborne Stearn, of papier-mâché.
Two Czech child's puppets, of the simpler kind of string puppet.
Two Chinese piano dancers of coloured paper, sticks and rice paste. The vibrations of a piano act on the bristles around the edge of the skirts, making the dolls dance.
Two string puppets of Black musicians; one has a hinged mouth and is holding a tambourine. French.
Series consists of toy theatres, often with accompanying playbooks, graphic materials, scenery, and characters, as well as toy theatre plays. Files are described individually.