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T. S. Denison & Company, Thomas Stewart Denison's company, 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] Arthur LeRoy Kaser

https://www.nypl.org/research/research-catalog/search?filters%5BcreatorLiteral%5D=Kaser,%20Arthur%20LeRoy,%201890-1956.

Arthur L. Kaser https://books.google.com/books?id=WFXIBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167&dq=Denison%27s+Blackface.Series

Is this the publisher of Denison's Blackface Series (category of images on Wikipedia Commons) https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5c3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&dq=Denison%27s+Blackface.Series

https://books.google.com/books?id=M2QOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&dq=Denison%27s+Blackface.Series

https://books.google.com/books?id=XyxvaqpYjz0C&pg=PA1724&dq=Denison%27s+Blackface.Series

Publishings

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  • A Poetical Entertainer, the Old Schoolhouse and Other Poems and Conceits in Verse (1902)[5]
  • A Minister Pro Tem (1914), a comedietta by Katharine Kavanaugh[6]
  • Good Things for Sunday Schools (1916)
  • The White Christmas, and many other Christmas plays(1917)[7][8]
  • Riley Readings with Living Pictures (1921)[9]
  • Deviled Crabs, A Vaudeville Act (1922) by T. Wanamaker Balance[10]
  • Story-Plays for Every Day and Holidays by Nina B. Lamkin

References

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  1. ^ "The Star-Spangled Banner" (PDF).
  2. ^ "How not to write a play".
  3. ^ "Lively plays for live people, by Thomas Stewart Denison" (PDF).
  4. ^ "A family strike. A farce".
  5. ^ ""A poetical entertainer," the old schoolhouse and other poems and conceits in verse". Library of Congress.
  6. ^ "A minister pro tem, a comedietta".
  7. ^ "Good things for Sunday schools : A complete entertainer, containing recitations, monologues, dialogues, exercises, drills, tableaux and plays" (PDF).
  8. ^ "English". 1917.
  9. ^ "Riley readings with living pictures" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Deviled crabs".