Newspapers And Playbills - Documents
This class consists of single copies of newspapers and newssheets, including a copy of the 'Challenger Gazette', 1828; two issues of 'The Great Eastern Telegraph', 1866, when the GREAT EASTERN was engaged on laying the Atlantic cable; and a copy of the 'Wei-Hai-Wei Gazette', 1902. It also contains playbills, including one advertising a performance on board the prison ship CROWN in 1807 of a play by a French prisoner of war and another announcing the performance of a comedy, Speed the Plough on the MINDEN, 1817.
Administrative / biographical background
Newspapers and Playbills - documents
Administrative / biographical background
Newspapers and Playbills - documents
Record Details
| Item reference: | THP; XX(63097.1) GB 0064 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | COLLECTION |
| Extent: | 6 items |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Theatre bill for HM prison ship CROWN, 1807. (Manuscript) (THP/1)
- Play bill for the HMS MINDEN, for the play Speed and Plough, a comedy, 1817. (Manuscript) (THP/2)
- CHALLENGER Gazette, price 6d, Sunday 31 March 1828. (Manuscript) (THP/3)
- WEI-HAI-WEU Gazette, 14 August 1902. (Manuscript) (THP/4)
- GREAT EASTERN telegraph, two copies of the papers produced while she was laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866. (Manuscript) (THP/5)
- Transferred to PVS/5. (Manuscript) (THP/6)
- Brass rubbings showing ships on memorial tablet, 16th-17th century. (Manuscript) (THP/7)
- The London Gazette. Publishing news on the storming of Santa Cruz issued by the Admiralty, 29 Aug-2 September 1797. (Manuscript) (THP/8)
- Playbill for 'Murder in the Red Barn', performed at the Marlag prisoner-of-war camp, 14 and 15 June 1944. (Manuscript) (THP/9)