[Rarebooks] FS: "Millie the Quadroon or, Out of Bondage, " unrecorded broadside

[Bob Petrilla]

[Elwyn, Lizzy May]. TO-NIGHT! TUESDAY, FEB. 21st. AT OPERA HOUSE, BETHEL,
WILL BE PRESENTED THE POPULAR DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS "MILLIE THE QUADROON OR,
OUT OF BONDAGE"... [broadside]. [Bryant Pond, Maine] : Chase & Co.,
Printers, 1893. Original edition. Theatre broadside, 14" x 5.25", printed
on recto only. Lists the 13-member cast, gives a 52-line synopsis of the
play, the price of admission, &c. Shallow chip at lower edge, leaving a
partial imprint of Bry___. Still, a very good example of this fragile,
ephemeral item.  Very Good.
"Millie, the Quadroon," first published in 1888, is a five-act drama about
slavery, miscegenation and race relations, set in the Antebellum South.
Among the characters in the play are a Southern planter, two slaves, "a
mulatto," a Northern doctor, a Sheriff, and others. The author, Lizzy May
Elwyn, also wrote a temperance farce and several other plays. [We find no
recorded holdings of this broadside.  We have reconstructed the imprint as
Bryant Pond, Maine. It is in the same county as Bethel (Oxford) where the
play was presented. Also, the Maine State Library cites a publication,
"Reunion of the Teachers and Scholars of Woodstock: Held at Bryant’s Pond
October 9, 1890," printed at Bryant’s Pond by A. M. Chase & Co. printers.
1891.]    $150.00

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