American theater collection of cabinet cards, [1871-1907].

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American theater collection of cabinet cards, [1871-1907].

Photographic portraits of actors in American theatre from 1871-1907. Many of these cabinet cards are autographed and bear inscriptions. Portraits include Maude Adams, Viola Allen, Henry Clay Barnabee, Lawrence Barrett, Blanche Bates, Kyrle Bellow, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Emma Calvé, Mrs Leslie Carter, Kate Claxton, Charlotte Crabtree, William H. Crane, Fanny Davenport, Henry E. Dixey, John Drew, Maxine Elliott, Mrs. G.H. Gilbert, William Gillette, Virginia Harned, De Wolfe Hopper, Wilton, Lackaye, Mary Mannering, Richard Mansfield, Julia Marlowe, Helene Modjeska, James O'Neill, Ada Rehan, E.H. Sothern, Lester Wallack and William Warren Jr. A number of these portraits were created by the photographer Napoleon Sarony.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7907377

Cornell University Library

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Calvé, Emma, 1858-1942

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French opera singer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Arthur Sullivan. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125533 French dramatic soprano. From the description of Letter, [18]96 janv. 15, New York, to "Cher Ami," [n.p.]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364122 French soprano. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [New York], 25 January 1897, 1897 Jan. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705640...

Warren, William, 1812-1888

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Actor. From the description of William Warren correspondence, 1874 January 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981315 ...

Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909

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Polish actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Arthur Sullivan, 1884 June 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125606 Actress. From the description of Letter of Helena Modjeska, 1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454585 ...

Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916

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Ada Rehan was an Irish-American actress. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1890. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 206691443 Irish-American actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hotel Metropole, W.C., London, to Arthur Sullivan, 1891 Nov. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126537 Irish-born American stage actress. From the description of Papers, ca. 1879-1918. (University ...

Hopper, De Wolf, 1858-1935

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Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923

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Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was a French actress. From the guide to the Sarah Bernhardt Collection, 1878-1969, (Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections) Actress, sculptor, and painter, Sarah Bernhardt was born in Paris, France. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007114 French born actress, artist, and writer. From the description of Sarah Bernhardt Collection, c...

Sothern, E. H. (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933

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Actor. From the description of E. H. Sothern papers. 1914-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980499 Edward Hugh Sothern (1859-1933) was an American actor and author who appeared on the New York and London stages; Julia Marlowe (1865-1950) was a successful actress in New York. They became co-stars in 1904, were married in 1911, and toured, mainly in Shakespeare plays, until her final retirement in 1924. Sothern devoted much of his later years to public readings, lectures ...

Bellew, Kyrle, 1855-1911.

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English actor From the guide to the Harold Kyrle Bellew notes to Mr. Falk, 1885, 1895, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) English actor in America. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Philadelphia], to Helen F. Levy, 1908 Nov. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131686 ...

Claxton, Kate, 1848-1924

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Kate Claxton was a popular American actress, and was even called the American Sarah Bernhardt. She began her career in Chicago, and later played in stock companies in New York, mostly in comedy and melodrama. She created a sensation in the role of Louise in The Two Orphans, touring widely in the part and becoming a household name. She was onstage at the time of the tragic Brooklyn Theatre Fire in 1876. She was married to actor Charles A. Stevenson from 1878-1911. The city of Claxton, Georgia, wa...

Barrett, Lawrence 1830-1891

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Elmira, to Mr. Barton, 1880 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270622278 Barrett was an American actor noted for his Shakespearean interpretations. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1863-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81995008 ...

Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950

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Julia Marlowe was an English actress. She married Edward Hugh Sothern on 17 August 1911. From the description of Letters : to Horace Howard Furness, Horace Howard Furness, Jr., and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness, 1890-1929. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155868093 Julia Marlowe was an actress. She was married to Edward Sothern. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1911-1933. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat rec...

Drew, John, 1853-1927

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American actor. From the description of Letter : Buffalo, N.Y., to "My Dear Alf," [190-?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632938 ...

Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943

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American actor. From the description of Autograph and typewritten letters signed : 117 West Fifty Sixth Street, New York, to J.E.M. Sandford, 1884 Jan 29 to 1886 March 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270127093 ...

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

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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. ...

Crabtree, Lotta, 1847-1924

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Lotta Crabtree was an American actress and theater producer. From the description of Papers, 1866-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865873 From the guide to the Lotta Crabtree papers, 1866-1937., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Nov. 7, 1847 Charlotte (Lotta) Mignon Crabtree born N.Y.C. Sept. 25, 1924 ...

Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907

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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...

Davenport, Fanny Elizabeth Vining, 1829-1891

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Allen, Viola, 1867-1948

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Actress. From the description of ALS, Saturday, Empire Theatre, to Miss Freeman. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935481 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000013 American actress. From the description of Invitation and an envelope, 1898. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367563537 From the guide to the Viola Allen letters, 1885, (...

Olcott, Chauncey, 1858-1932

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Tenor and composer. From the description of Autograph card signed : [n.p.], 1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270907068 ...

Gillette, William, 1853-1937

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American actor and author. From the description of Autograph letters and cards signed (7) and typewritten letters signed (8) : Hadlyme, Conn., etc., to William H. Briggs and others at Harper & Brothers, 1927 Jan. 2-1928 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589041 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to the Editor of the Hartford Courant, 1889 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269575084 American actor and playwright. Fro...

Loewentheil, Stephan

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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787-July 10, 1851) was a French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. From the description of Stephan Loewentheil photograph collection, 1822-1899. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 672663903 ...

Sarony, Napoléon 1821-1896

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Artist and photographer. From the description of Napoleon Sarony correspondence, 1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980397 ...

Bates, Blanche, 1873-1941

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Barnabee, Henry Clay, 1833-1917

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American actor and comedian. From the description of Autograph, ca. 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367389591 Boston-based basso and humorist. From the description of Press comments and programmes of the Barnabee Concert Troupe [scrapbook] 1871 Jan. 16-1872 March 7. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 61494215 ...

Adams, Maude, 1872-1953

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Maude Ewing Kiskadden (1872-1953), known professionally as Maude Adams, was an American stage actress who achieved her greatest success as Peter Pan. From the description of Maude Adams visiting cards, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 774127810 Actress, author, and educator. From the description of Maude Adams papers, 1925-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981090 American actress and teacher, also known as Maude Adams Kiskadden. ...

O'Neill, James, 1847-1920

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