Title: Michael Shea Papers
Date Span: 1898-1918
Acquisition Number: N/A
Creator: Michael Shea
Donor: Mary Shea Giffoniello
Date of Acquisition: N/A
Extent: 2 boxes
Language: English
Location: Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State
Processed: 2018, Hope Dunbar/Heather Hartz
Access: The Michael Shea Papers are open for research.
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Preferred Citation:
[Description and dates], Box, Michael Shea Papers, Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State.
Biographical Note:
Michael Shea was born in Buffalo’s Old First Ward in 1859 and played an instrumental role in developing the city’s theater and entertainment scene. Between 1882 and 1934, Michael Shea was one of the leading purveyors of middle class entertainment in Buffalo and operated a number of popular vaudeville halls and later movie theaters.
Shea's Performing Arts Center (originally Shea's Buffalo) is a theater for touring Broadway musicals and special events in Buffalo, New York. Originally called Shea's Buffalo, it was opened in 1926 to show silent movies. It took one year to build the entire theatre. Shea's boasts one of the few theater organs in the US that is still in operation in the theater for which it was designed.
Scope and Contents:
Account book; cassette tape; cd; correspondence; newspaper clippings; photographs; programs; travel diary.
Arrangement: Collection arrangement is as donated. Please see the inventory.
