Volumes of performances connecting Sir Henry Irving. 1879 - 1905. - British Library Research Repository
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Volumes of performances connecting Sir Henry Irving. 1879 - 1905.

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.

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henryirving-ocr-text.zip
30 Jan 2019
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3.42 MB
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henryirving-pdf.zip
7 Jan 2019
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4.02 GB
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Metadata

  • Resource type

    • Dataset

  • Contributors
    • Kirk, Tanya (Curator)
  • Institution

    • British Library

  • Publisher

    • British Library

  • Place of publication

    • London, UK

  • Official URL
  • Licence
  • DOI

    • doi.org/10.21250/hi1

  • Alternate identifier
      • identifier: DAR00126
      • type: Digital Asset Register ID
      • identifier: DAR00127
      • type: Digital Asset Register ID
  • Keywords
  • 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).