Helen Patges Dreiser photographs, circa 1890-1947.

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Helen Patges Dreiser photographs, circa 1890-1947.

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Comprises forty-eight photographs collected by Stephen R. Pastore. The photographs are chiefly of Helen Patges Dreiser, including one photograph of Helen as a young girl. The collection contains professional photographs of Helen Dreiser (stage name: Helen Richardson), images from Helen's performances, some photographs with her Russian wolfhounds, some images of Helen's sister Myrtle Patges Butcher, and some images of Helen and Theodore Dreiser. A majority of the photographs have handwritten notes on verso by Myrtle Patges Butcher, and some of the photographs were taken by Butcher. There is one photograph of Helen's grandmother, who is also Theodore Dreiser's aunt. There are three unknown photographs of children dating from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, one of whom may possibly be Theodore Dreiser. Items 1-44 and 12 negatives are contained in Box 1. Items 45-48 are in Box 2.

2 boxes (48 items, 12 negatives)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8191143

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Dreiser, Helen Patges, -1955

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Pastore, Stephen R., 1946-....

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Sinclair Lewis was born Harry Sinclair Lewis on February 7, 1885, in Sauk Center, Minnesota. He began reading as a young child and read often. His father, Edwin, was strict and often hard on Sinclair, who was sensitive and bookish in comparison to his older brothers, Fred and Claude. Lewis is said to have led a lonely childhood, and at the age of thirteen he ran away from home in an attempt to join the Spanish-American War as a drummer boy. Sinclair Lewis entered Yale U...

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Theodore Dreiser was an American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early twentieth-century American fiction, SISTER CARRIE (1900) and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1925). From the description of The mercy of God : manuscript, [1900-1945?] / by Theodore Dreiser. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 63051908 Editor and author. From the description of Theodore Dreiser papers, 1910-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009534 ...

Butcher, Myrtle Patges, b.1901?

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