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Albert Rutherston's The Good Fairy, a play by F. J. Harvey Darton. London, 1922. The book of the play, with the characters and scenes cut out and mounted.

American jointed figure, "jigging puppet".

Aubrey Hammond's Jack and Jill, an Underground Fairy Tale, by Ralph Wotherspoon. London, 1932. Characters and three circular revolving stages, with proscenium.

Puppet from the South of France depicting an African man with a beard. Of the simpler kind of string puppet.

Includes, in portfolio, texts of plays, scenery, heads for glove puppets, patterns for costumes, poster, etc.

American glove puppets of a Black Punch and Judy, with carved wooden heads.

This portion of the collection contains 2714 books and periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the puppet theatre in various European languages as well as scripts for puppet plays.

An eighteenth-century puppet of Brighella, a character from the Commedia dell'Arte. Of the simpler kind of string puppet, held from above by a vertical iron rod (or thick wire) hooked to an eyelet on top of the head; a rod or string to the right hand (in this case, both hands). From a Paris puppet theatre of 1760.

String puppet of a bronze dancer representing the Spirit of Fire. By the Canadian puppeteer, Rosalynde Osborne Stearn.

A dancer from the Burmese puppet theatre. String puppet.