The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]

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Title
The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]
Author
Harry Watkins
Editor
Amy E. Hughes, Naomi Stubbs
Print Source
Harry Watkins. Diary. Papers of the Skinner family, 1874-1979 (inclusive), box 17, MS Thr 857. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Date
July 22, 1853
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"The Harry Watkins Diary, Volume 11 [July 22, 1853–June 12, 1854]." In the digital collection The Harry Watkins Diary: Digital Edition. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hwatkins/hwatkins.0011.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.

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22 May 1854

Pleasant—Rehearsing, reading & walking A.M. Reading & walking P.M. At Theatre 7 P.M. A drop-curtain was exhibited this evening which is the first of the kind ever shown in this country—It is an advertising Curtain—displaying painted cards of a number of mercantile firms of this city—The painter is Mr H Lovie who receives so much from each subscriber—the price being determined by the place the card occuillegiblepieds on the curtain—the more conspicuous the greater the subscription—The design is a good one, though not well executed, and no doubt pays the artist well for his trouble—The curtain is furnished the manager free of expense—he agreeing to display it every night, while the Theatre is open, for one year. Neither the curtain nor and the Ethiop succeeded in drawing combined did not succeed in drawing a good house—the Ethiop's days are numbered

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