[Scrapbook relating to Knickerbocker Field Club Dramatic Corps performances].

Flatbush (New York, N.Y.), circa 1905-1907.

57 photographs in 1 scrapbook : black and white prints ; photographs 15 x 25 cm and smaller.

Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Danford N. Barney, Jr. Fund, 2012.

This material is open for research.

The Knickerbocker Field Club was established in 1889 as a tennis club by local residents of Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. In 1893, the members built a clubhouse on East 18th Street and Tennis Court, which served as a gymnasium and dining area, as well as a playhouse for amateur theater performances by the club's Dramatic Corps. The original clubhouse was replaced with a modern structure after a fire destroyed the building in 1988.

Disbound scrapbook of photographs, clippings, theater programs, and other materials documenting the performances of the Knickerbocker Field Club Dramatic Corps of Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1905 to 1907. Mounted on scrapbook leaves are 55 production photographs as well as clippings and programs related to nine productions including A Virginia Courtship (undated), Are You a Mason? (1905), My Friend from India (1905), In Chancery (1906), His Excellency the Governor (1906), The Senator (1906), The Man of Mexico (1906), The Butterflies (1907), The Gray Mare (1907), and Mr. Hopkinson (undated). Also included are two laid-in photographs of unidentified performers and two menus for the 1905 and 1906 Knickerbocker Field Club Dinners.

English

October 24, 2014

Scrapbook Relating to Knickerbocker Field Club Dramatic Corps Performances. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Scrapbook Relating to Knickerbocker Field Club Dramatic Corps Performances. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Actors New York (State) New York 20th century.