FR-Contents: About this Digital Exhibition | About the Collection | Techincal Credits | Tech
About this Digital Exhibition
This digital exhibition was created as an example for the Programming Historian tutorial
This collection was digitized in 2019 by the University of Alberta Library and hosted on the Internet Archive platform.
About the English Playbills Collection
The University of Alberta Library acquired an extensive collection of historic theatre playbills for study and research in the Department of Drama between the late 1960s and the early 1980s. This collection, more than 800 playbills and a handful of programs, helps to document many of the performances staged in the major playhouses in the United Kingdom from 1779 through 1949, with the bulk of them from 1804-1885. It provides a wealth of information about dramatic performances, ranging from the plays, playwrights, and actors to theatres, dates, and ticket prices. It is of potential interest not only for the study of drama but also for the study of book history and graphic design.
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Technical Credits
This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a framework to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from a CSV of collection metadata and, in this case, links to digital objects hosted elsewhere. For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.