Mildred Stock Research collection, 1940-1975.

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Mildred Stock Research collection, 1940-1975.

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The Mildred Stock Research Collection consists of research files concerning Stock's studies of African-American and European stage actors, slavery and other subjects. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research files and correspondence relating to the book she co-authored with Herbert Marshall, "Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian." Included is correspondence, manuscript drafts, notes and clippings pertaining to her research on Aldridge, Thomas Greene Bethune a.k.a. "Blind Tom," Toussaint Louverture, Paul Cuffe, and fugitive slaves (e.g., Henry "Box" Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Venture Smith and others). Other topics of her research were the nineteenth century Irish actor, Tyrone Power, and Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth century women's rights advocate. Musical scores composed by Blind Tom can be found in the collection. Stock also prepared draft manuscripts for baby books aimed at African American, Asian Indian and general audiences. Some personal papers are also included.

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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

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Victoria C. Woodhull was a woman's rights pioneer who achieved notoriety on many fronts in Gilded Age America. She founded (with her sister Tennessee Claflin) a Wall Street brokerage, with the support and advice of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull used profits to publish Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, advocating female suffrage, free love, and other progressive causes. Later she addressed House committee on suffrage, and exposed the Beecher-Tilton scandal, implicating celebrated minister Henry War...

Craft, William James, -1931

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William and Ellen Craft were fugitive slaves who lectured for the Abolitionist cause. From the description of ALS [microform] : Surry, England to S[amuel] May, Boston, 1851 Nov. 29. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37939104 ...

Aldridge, Ira Frederick, -1867

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Toussaint-Louverture, 1743?-1803

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Reformer, Haitian army officer, and public official. Full name: Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture. From the description of Toussaint Louverture papers, 1797-1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981003 Haitian general and liberator. From the description of Passport, An 6 [i.e. 1798] Germinal 22, Gonaìˆves, Haiti, issued to Richard Codman. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14444822 ...

Blind Tom, 1849-1908

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Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805

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Brown, Henry Box, 1816-....

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Power, Tyrone, 1797-1841

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London, England resident. From the description of Letter, 1840. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097074 Tyrone Power (1797-1841) was an Irish comedian. From the description of Letter by Tyrone Power to Gentleman, 1835. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228769406 ...

Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991

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Professor, Center for Soviet and East European Studies in the Performing Arts, at Southern Illinois University. From the description of The fate of the great Soviet film artist, Sergo Paradjanov : typescript, 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870865 Herbert P.J. Marshall was a British writer whose career also embraced film making, theatrical direction and design, education and Russian literature. Marshall was born in 1906 in East Ham London, England. He studied film ma...

Craft, Ellen, 1826-1891

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Stock, Mildred.

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Mildred Stock (1902-ca.1980) was a writer and researcher, best known for the work, "Ira Aldridge:The Negro Tragedian", which she co-authored with Herbert Marshall. From the description of Mildred Stock Research collection, 1940-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456229 From the guide to the Mildred Stock Research collection, 1940-1975, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) ...