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… on the stage. Nevertheless, it retained a sociable function past the performance event, as an object of fascination for collectors and their associates. Objects > Print culture Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Advertisement Audience … a popular object of collection. Many surviving examples are available to scholars because of the work and dedication of collectors across the centuries like Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818), John de Monis Johnson (1882-1956) and Francis … generalist collecting practices that situated the theater as part of associational culture as a whole’ (Russell 255). Collectors of playbills in the eighteenth century, like Sarah Sophia Banks, socialised and traded within interconnected …