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Boston Theatre. J. B. Booth Lessee and Manager: Extra Announcement

Boston Theatre. J. B. Booth Lessee and Manager: Extra Announcement
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by Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.)

48 cm x 20.5 cm

Boston : F. A. Searle, [1869]


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[ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

This 1869 broadside advertises the two-night extension, by popular demand, of performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Boston Theatre. Actress Lotta Crabtree starred as the slave girl Topsy. Junius Brutus Booth, lessee and manager of the Boston Theatre, was the brother of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth.