Collection, circa 1880-2000.

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Collection, circa 1880-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701858

A collection of photographs, negatives, transparencies, commercial films, and home movies spanning the more than fifty-year career and family business of Waukesha, Wisconsin photographer Warren S. O'Brien and other members of his family. The collection documents his professional career, the operations of his studio, and other interests which included local history, aviation, aerial photography, and film-making. Included are images of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at their Genesee Depot home. There is also a small amount of personal and professional correspondence, newsclippings, equipment brochures, supply catalogs, and technical pamphlets.

1.0 c.f.,11,824 photographs,5,046 negatives,1,056 transparencies,365 pieces of ephemera,11 drawings,7.7 c.f. of photographs.141 cans of 16mm film,1 reel of 16mm film, and15 3/4" videotapes.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926055

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Lunt, Alfred, 1892-1977

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Alfred Davis Lunt Jr. (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor who had a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Lunt received two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for 1931's The Guardsman and an Emmy Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of The Magnificent Yankee. Lunt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1892 to Alfred D. Lunt and Harriet ...

O'Brien family.

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Fontanne, Lynn

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O'Brien, Warren S.

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O'Brien, Daniel Dominic.

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O'Brien, Dean W.

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O'Brien, Elizabeth June

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Epithet: 2nd wife of William, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x0003cb ...