Dataset

Portraits of actors, views of theatres and playbills (covering 1750 - 1821 in a single volume)

Public Deposited

Creator
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
2015

Abstract
  • 166 page PDF of collated portraits and views (with OCR-derived text) The dataset comprises one digitised volume (166 pages) of a collection of portraits of celebrated actors and actresses, views of theatres and playbills, dating 1750 - 1821. The dataset is in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Items:

Thumbnail File Name Date Uploaded Visibility File Size Actions
portraits-views-playbills-pdf.zip 2019-01-07 Public 46 MB
portraits-views-playbills-ocr-text.zip 2019-01-30 Public 82 KB

Metadata

Resource Type
  • Dataset
Creator
  • British Library  ( ISNI )
Contributor
  • Kirk, Tanya  ( Curator )
Date published
  • 2015
Institution
  • British Library
Publisher
  • British Library
Place of publication
  • London, UK
Official URL
Licence
  • CC Public Domain Mark 1.0
DOI
  • doi.org/10.21250/por1
Alternate identifier
  • identifier: DAR00114 
  • type: Digital Asset Register ID
  • identifier: DAR00115 
  • type: Digital Asset Register ID
Keyword
Additional Information
  • The 45.9 MB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains one .PDF file. The 52.7 KB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains one .TXT file derived from OCR using ABBYY FineReader software (2007). Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 - 2003) format contain metadata about the digitised volume. The British Library shelfmark is '1763 a 5'. More information is available on the catalogue (digital version).

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