Starting point in trying to anchor looking at all the material… Link to my own research – book on Peter Lorre. German Theatre pamphlets of the 19th & 20th Century. Delved in… But too easy! The second envelope I looked at: ...

I entered the collection with an agenda: I wanted to locate the material it held on stage machinery; trap doors, revolving stages, fly towers and winch systems, and - if I was lucky, trick props and stage effects, items ...