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T. S. Denison & Company, owned by Thomas Stewart Denison, was a publisher in Chicago. It published pamphlets on popular entertainments including vaudeville sketches, songs, and poems. It published a Half Hour Dramas series and Denison's Blackface Series. It published Denison's Illustrated Song Pantomimes.[1]
In 1893 Dennison wrote and published How Not to Write a Play. The firm's address was 163 Randolph Street.[2] He wrote Lively Plays for Live People published in 1895.[3]
In 1877 his farce A Family Strike was published "by the author De Kalb, Ill." and printed on the steam press of Cushing, Thomas & Co. in Chicago.[4]
Works published
- numerous plays by Walter Ben Hare
- works by Harlan Tarbell
- works by Harry Lee Newton (1872-????)[5]
- A Poetical Entertainer, the Old Schoolhouse and Other Poems and Conceits in Verse (1902)[6]
- A Minister Pro Tem (1914), a comedietta by Katharine Kavanaugh[7]
- The White Christmas, and many other Christmas plays(1917)[8][9]
- Riley Readings with Living Pictures (1921)[10]
- Deviled Crabs, A Vaudeville Act (1922) by T. Wanamaker Balance[11]
References
- ^ "The Star-Spangled Banner" (PDF).
- ^ "How not to write a play".
- ^ "Lively plays for live people, by Thomas Stewart Denison" (PDF).
- ^ "A family strike. A farce".
- ^ "Online Books by Harry L. Newton". The Online Books Page. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
- ^ ""A poetical entertainer," the old schoolhouse and other poems and conceits in verse". Library of Congress.
- ^ "A minister pro tem, a comedietta".
- ^ "Good things for Sunday schools : A complete entertainer, containing recitations, monologues, dialogues, exercises, drills, tableaux and plays" (PDF).
- ^ "English". 1917.
- ^ "Riley readings with living pictures" (PDF).
- ^ "Deviled crabs".
External links
- Denison, Thomas S. (Thomas Stewart), 1848-1911 archive.org
- https://archive.org/details/TNM_Various_electric_powered_devices_-_T_S_Deniso_20171026_0236
- https://www.tsarthur.com/publishers/denison.html
- https://www.homageexhibit.com/qr-pr250.html
- https://www.loc.gov/item/tmp92008799/
Search
- Search: "T. S. Denison" site:onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu