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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia University, University Specialty Company, Program for "Richard
III", A&M 5251, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Program for production of Shakespeare's "Richard III" put on by the University Specialty Company, 16 April 1892. The production
was mounted to raise money for West Virginia University's first football team. Program includes a synopsis and cast of characters;
the title role was played by Melville Davisson Post, a law student who would become a popular author of detective fiction.
Written in pencil on the reverse of the program is "WVR, VF, Class-1892".
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