Frederick G. Ross Scrapbooks, 1876-1930

ArchivalResource

Frederick G. Ross Scrapbooks, 1876-1930

Frederick G. Ross was an actor and business manager. His collection includes scrapbooks documenting the theater and actors and actresses of the 19th century. Also included is a portfolio of letters from the actor and stage manager William Gorman Seymour.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6317742

Related Entities

There are 14 Entities related to this resource.

Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64b30hc (person)

William Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), American playwright. From the description of Nathan Hale : an original play in four acts, [circa 1897] / by Clyde Fitch. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702202011 Dramatist. From the description of Grace de Granmont : holograph play script, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 163614397 1886 graduate of Amherst College. American playwright best known for plays of social satire and character study and notable for having fou...

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65h7gkm (person)

American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Chicago, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Dec. 5 and 1890 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532629 From the description of Letters, 1858, 1887. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56685372 Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth, the great British tragedian, and the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin was best known for his Shakespearean roles. ...

Seymour family

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xv0s44 (family)

Ross, Frederick G., 1858-1942

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f18w6 (person)

Frederick G. Ross, actor and business manager for Lillian Russell was born in San Francisco, California in 1858. He began his stage career in 1879 appearing with actors such as James O'Neill, Edwin Booth, Ada Cavendish, John Drew and Joseph Jefferson. Leaving the stage, he became business manager for stars such as Lillian Russell, Fritzi Scheff, Margaret Anglin, Henry Miller and Rose Coghlan. He died in Long Island, New York in 1942. From the guide to the Frederick G. Ross Scrapbooks...

Seymour, William Gorman, 1855-1933.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b2k4d (person)

Richard Mansfield

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g004kf (person)

Sullivan, T. R. (Thomas Russell), 1849-1916

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m04nkd (person)

American novelist. From the description of Papers of T.R. Sullivan [manuscript], 1892-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805854 Thomas Russell Sullivan, author and playwright, was born in Boston in 1849 and died in that city in 1916. As a young man he was employed in several banks as a clerk and cashier, but after 1888 he retired from business to devote himself to his writing. He dramatized Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the actor Ri...

Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gt5n06 (person)

Actor; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. From the description of John Wilkes Booth-Miller collection, 19??-1946 / Ernest Conrad Miller. (Allegheny College). WorldCat record id: 44935230 From the description of Papers, 1863 June-1865 April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418055 From the description of Letter: Franklin, [Pennsylvania], to John, [18]64 June 17. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418059 ...

Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6db86n1 (person)

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...

Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gt5n06 (person)

Actor; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. From the description of John Wilkes Booth-Miller collection, 19??-1946 / Ernest Conrad Miller. (Allegheny College). WorldCat record id: 44935230 From the description of Papers, 1863 June-1865 April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418055 From the description of Letter: Franklin, [Pennsylvania], to John, [18]64 June 17. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418059 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw2fst (person)

Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x0002bc Henrik Ibsen, playwright. W.L. Turner, translator. From the description of Rosmersholm: typescript, 1998. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430738 Playwright. From the description of A doll home : playscript, 1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454948 Norwegian poet and dramatist. ...

Edwin Booth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z4500s (person)

Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w95gtf (person)