Longtime drama professor Laurence Senelick’s extensive collection celebrates the performing arts across the centuriesAs a graduate student in the 1960s, Laurence Senelick would often wander through Harvard Square’s used bookshops and antique stores. He was on a mission—looking to add to his growing collection of images and artifacts from the performing arts. He still remembers the day he stumbled upon a group of small actor photographs known as cartes-de-visite—novelty trading cards once so approved in the nineteenth century they sparked a craze known as “cartomania.”
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