Bound scrapbook, kept by an S.H.Palmer. 100pp., most with 2 or 3 newspaper clippings and some programs per page. 12x10", half leather and marbled boards.

Performances were at the California Theatre, Baldwin’s Theatre, Bush Street Theatre and the Grand Opera House, Wade’s Opera House, Baldwin’s Academy of Music, Platt’s Hall, Emerson Opera House, Mechanics Pavilion, the Standard Theatre, Tivoli Garden Opera House and Winter Garden. Operas, ballets, musical concerts and plays are represented, a few of the more notable being the “first production in California” of Jules Verne’s “Tour of the World in 80 Days” and Offenbach’s opera, “Trip To the Moon”, loosely based on the Verne novel; performances of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and “Our American Cousin” (the play at which Booth assassinated Lincoln), the San Francisco premier of Bizet’s “Carmen”, concerts by Jenny Lind, the Vienna Ladies Orchestra, the Georgia Minstrels “Troupe of Genuine Negroes”, and “Urlina, The African Princess” starring African-American actress Madah Hyers, the California Gold Rush-era pioneer of Black Musical Theater. A rich collection of San Francisco entertainment 20 years after the Civil War.