| Harmount's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company was a touring troupe that traveled the
midwest between 1903 and 1929. It was smaller, less well known that the really
big shows during these years -- Brady's, Stetson's, Martin's and so on -- but
big enough to carry much of its own scenery (which you can see in the archive's
ARMBRUSTER SECTION), to have a parade and, by the
'teens, to include electronic special effects in its productions. Summers the
troupe played under canvas, carrying their own tent; winters they played in
theatres in big towns and small cities. They averaged well over 300 performances a
year, and may have been seen by as many as three million people during their
decades on the road. Many of the company's
records are preserved at the Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research
Institute, the University of Ohio Libraries, and it is from these holdings that
the exhibits here have been drawn. In addition, the SCRIPTS
SECTION of the archive contains two acting texts from the Harmount
Collection.
1903 Summer Tour 1904 Summer Tour 1915-16 Winter Tour 1916 Summer Tour |
