HISTORICAL NOTE

Peirce was a Boston-born artist, who lived at 6 Avon Street, then 35 Morton Street, Andover. He founded an amateur theatrical group “The Barnstormers.”
 

1922 Costume Illustration from At the End of the Rainbow

1922 Pageant Program presented by The Barnstormers

The material consists mostly of watercolor costume drawings and programs for the following pageants: “A Dream of Fair Women of the Past”, presented by Lawrence Woman’s Club/Universalist Church Vestry, 1921; “The Shakespeare Festival” (no year on the program); “At the End of the Rainbow”, 1922; “Masque of the Muses”, 1918. The first three were given in Andover. The costume drawing were made for “At the End of the Rainbow”.

There is a list of Peirce’s plays and a biography in the vertical file.

Processed by Mary F. Morgan, December 1982.