Chestnut Street Opera House
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The Chestnut Street Opera House was a theatre located at 1021–1029 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built by theatre impresario Robert Fox on the former site of the Pennsylvania Academy
1880 sketch of the Chestnut Street Opera House
Party Scene by Robert Henri. Part of the collection of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Henri would often sketch audiences at the Chestnut Street Opera House, and it is possible this ink drawing was made at the theatre.
Front cover of sheet music for the song "Lover Come Back To Me" from The New Moon
Samuel F. Nixon
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Samuel Frederic Nixon was an American theater owner. He was known as one of the organizers of the Theatrical Syndicate, which monopolized theatrical bookings in the United States for several years.
Chestnut Street Opera House
…House, and re-opened as a legitimate theatre in 1880. It continued to operate as a legitimate theatre, first under the management of theatre magnates Samuel F. Nixon and J. Fred Zimmerman Sr., who acquired the theatre's lease in 1882, and later under the Shubert Organization, who acquired the theatre in 1916. It was…
Samuel Frederic Nixon Nirdlinger
Playbill from the Nixon Theatre, Pittsburgh for a 1911 Sarah Bernhardt performance of L'Aiglon