Volumes of performances connecting Sir Henry Irving. 1879 - 1905.
Resource type
Dataset
Date published
2015
Abstract
Sir Henry Irving's American and Provincial Tours 1883 - 1905; miscellaneous performances, including some given by Royal Command, 1883 - 1903; Lyceum Theatre 1879 – 1902; and Drury Lane Theatre, 1903 and 1905. The collection was formed by Bram Stoker.
Creator (organisation)
British Library
Contributor (person)
Kirk, Tanya
Publisher
British Library
Place of publication
London, UK
Official URL
DOI
Additional information
The dataset comprises 17 digitised volumes of a collection of theatrical performance programmes with which Sir Henry Irving was connected (with OCR-derived text.) The 3.74 GB ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains 17 .PDF volumes. The 3.26 MB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains 17 .TXT files derived from OCR using ABBYY FineReader software (2007). The .TXT files contain plain text in UTF-8 encoding. Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 – 2003 version) format contain metadata about the digitised volumes. The British Library shelfmark is 'C 120 a 1'. More information is available on the catalogue (physical version).