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We are proud to announce the Theater Actor Prints and Photographs Collection, representing early stage and film actors and actresses, performers, directors, and royalty from the 1880s through the 1930s. The collection includes engravings, etchings, prints, cabinet photographs, cartes de visite, and other photographic materials from England and the United States. The collection includes actors such as H.B. Irving, Fanny Davenport, Lillian Russell, and John Drew.
Images are from the Harold Seton Collection (MS578), the Harold Tedford Collection (MS580), the G. Sykes Collection (MS579), the Clarence Herbert New Papers (MS577), and the library’s collection of theater actor prints (MS581).
This collaborative project is the result of many contributors, including Rebecca Petersen, Craig Fansler, Megan Mulder, Barry Davis, Erik Mitchell, myself, and others.
2 Comments on ‘Theater Actor Prints & Photographs Now Online!’
This was a tremendous labor, through circuitous pathways. No pain, no gain: everyone seems to have learned from each other and from the work itself about how to plan and advance a digital project. I feel I am the beneficiary of the lessons learned through projects like this. Thanks to all.
Archival housecleaning-and done by real professionals. You guys deserve some award for this effort-taking a disorganized mish-mash and imposing order-I don’t mean just order, I mean archival order…it’s a thing of beauty!