Renee Prahar collection of Richard Mansfield memorabilia

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Renee Prahar collection of Richard Mansfield memorabilia

1892-1922

Includes photographs of Mansfield (some inscribed by Mansfield to Prahar); pencil drawings by Mansfield; playbills and programs; clippings; and a manuscript diary/itinerary book kept by Prahar while on tour in 1900 and 1901. Also includes a scrapbook of clippings relating to Prahar's sculpture career, 1922.

.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11651070

Houghton Library

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Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907

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Richard Mansfield (1857-1907) was an actor of the late 19th century. He was born in Helgoland, Germany, into a family that excelled in the performing arts. His mother was the prima donna Hermine Rudersdorff (1822-1882), and his grandfather, the violinist Joseph Rudersdorff (1788-1866). His father, Maurice Mansfield, was a London businessman. Richard Mansfield began his stage career touring the English provinces in Gilbert and Sullivan and made his first appear...

Prahar, Renee, 1880-1962

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Renée Prahar (1880—August 17, 1962) also known as Irene Prahar, was an American sculptor and actress based in New York City and later in Connecticut. Irene Prahar was born in New York. She studied sculpture in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, working with Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle. While in Paris, she showed work at the Salon of the Société National des Beaux-Arts in 1911 and again in 1914. Prahar began working as a stage actress, in the company of actor ...