Helena Modjeska collection, 1881-1989

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Helena Modjeska collection, 1881-1989

Helena Modjeska collection, 1881-1989

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf0489n6gt

The artificial collection comprises primary and secondary source materials on Helena Modjeska, a nineteenth-century Polish stage actress who had a successful career in the United States. Most items pertain to her stage career, while others provide insight into Modjeska's life at her Santiago Canyon ranch, Arden, in Orange County, California. Primary sources include original and photocopied Modjeska correspondence, ephemera, programs and playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts. Secondary sources include biographical information on Modjeska in newspaper clippings, manuscripts typescripts, and published journal articles written by a number of authors.

1.7 linear feet (4 boxes and 3 oversize folders)

eng,

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections