(Theatre broadside) Wheatley and Drew's Arch St. Theatre. The Popular Star Company will appear, for the first & only time this season, in the great Moral Tragedy (by Moore.) called The Gamseter!

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  DATE: 1854.

• EDITION SIZE: Sheet size 19 1/4 x 9 3/8" (49 x 23.9 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: To-Night, Saturday, Dec. 16, '54.<br><br> Printed by Brown's Steam Power Job Printing office, Ledger Building.<br><br> The Arch Street Theatre was located in Philadelphia on Arch Street between 6th and 7th Streets, the Arch Street Theatre was one of the nation's oldest theatres. The theatre opened in 1828 and rose to prominence in the 1850s and 1860s under the management of William Wheatley and John Drew. In 1861, Drew's wife, Louise Lane Drew, took over ownership of the theatre and modernized its accommodations, bringing in plush seating and crystal chandeliers. The Arch Street Theatre is also notable for counting the actor (and later Presidential assassin) John Wilkes Booth among its performers in the 1850s and 1860s.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Broadsides