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Notice of travel information for actors of Janauschek’s Dramatic Co., Annapolis
This is a form from the collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library. It’s from the 19th or 20th century and it has information about travel for the company of Mary Stuart. The note is signed by the stage manager Shirley Smith. This is an interesting document because it’s not something that necessarily gets saved. Nowadays this document would be sent in an email. It would probably also be posted on the callboard for the company to see, but it probably wouldn’t get archived in any real way. It’s fascinating to see how an analog item that doesn’t seem to be super important in the moment has a lot of intrinsic value much later in time.