Day: February 8, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

Ultra-effective for street ballyhoo purposes!

As cataloging of the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance and Music (Harvard Theatre Collection) progresses, the treasures it contains are ever more in evidence. A recent standout is a group of fifteen cinema pressbooks for films from the 1930s, from studios including Warner Bros., Columbia, and RKO. Pressbooks, or campaign books, were a…