Smedley family theater collection, 1899-1913.

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Smedley family theater collection, 1899-1913.

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The collection consists of a make-up kit, theater programs, glasses, photographs of vaudeville actors (some members of the Smedley family), a script for "The Little Mother" by Katherine Stagg (showing edits and rewrites), a diary from 1910 for Edwin A. Smedley (concerning daily life of a performer in New York City), miscellaneous printed material about the Smedley family, a scrapbook/journal covering 1899-1913 (focusing on a production of "Rebeccca of Sunnybrook Farm" in which Edwin Smedley played the part of Abijah Flagg), several full and partial pages of a journal titled "New York Dec 29, 1910 -- Some Jokes I Have Heard."

1.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7884014

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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

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American author and educator. From the description of Papers of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, 1887-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083790 Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There ...

Smedley, Edwin A.

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Smedley family.

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Stagg, Katherine.

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