Joseph George Holman ?1764-1817. 1st Hamlet America: Sept. 28, 1812. Artist unknown, Garrick Club, London. Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Within the Graphic Arts Collection there are 100s of lantern slides. Several dozen document various productions of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Here are a few examples.
At the bottom is a wonderful video on the documentation and performance of Charles Dickens’s novels using lantern slides.
Basil Sydney. Claudius: Charles Waldron, Booth Theatre 1925. Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Maurice Evans, Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Mrs. Shaw (Mrs. Thomas S. Hamblin). 1st performance Hamlet February 21 1940, Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Raymond Massey 1931. Horatio: Leon Quartermaine. Design: Norman Bel Geddes. Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson 1853-1903. Graphic Arts Collection GC136
John E. Kellerd 1863-1929. Start of forced run of 102 performances November 18, 1912, Graphic Arts Collection GC136
Thanks go to the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture and Prof. Mervyn Heard for this video: