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Hopper, Lillian Glaser [Photographs from the Lillian Glaser Hopper and DeWolf Hopper papers].
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Title:
[Photographs from the Lillian Glaser Hopper and DeWolf Hopper papers]Creator/Contributor:
Hopper, Lillian Glaser, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Bushnell, Frederick H., photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Seymour, Maurice, photographer.Abstract:
Includes studio portraits, publicity stills and snapshots pertaining to the careers of singers Lillian Glaser Hopper and her
husband, DeWolf Hopper, chiefly during the 1920s and 1930s. Also includes photographs of Lillian later in life when she served
as Reverend at the First Church of Religious Science in Oakland, Calif. Also depicts other actors, actresses, singers, friends
and associates of the Hoppers.
Date:
1885 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Actors -- United States -- Pictorial works
Singers -- United States -- Pictorial works
Acteurs -- États-Unis -- Ouvrages illustrés
Chanteurs -- États-Unis -- Ouvrages illustrés
Actors
Singers
United States
Hopper, Lillian Glaser -- Pictorial works
Hopper, De Wolf -- 1858-1935 -- Portraits
Hopper, De Wolf -- 1858-1935
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Lillian Glaser Hopper.
2 photograph albums have been disbound to minimize risk to contents; album leaves have been filed in AX folders (vol. 1) and
B folders (vol. 2).
Among the identified photographers are Maurice Seymour (Chicago), Bushnell (San Francisco), Blake Black (San Francisco), F.
Bauer (San Francisco), Albert "Kayo" Harris & Associates (Oakland, Calif.) and Randall Studio (Atlantic City, N.J.)
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transferred from the Lillian Glaser Hopper and DeWolf Hopper papers (BANC MSS 2014/101)
Gift ; Of Roberta Park ; 2014.
Lillian Glaser Hopper was born Lillian Faulker in Oakland, Caifornia. Her first husband, a Dr. Glaser, died during the 1918
influenza epidemic. She was later married to actor and singer DeWolf Hopper. She performed light opera and other musical theater
in San Francisco, Chicago and elsewhere. After DeWolf's death in 1935 Lillian returned to Oakalnd. She became an ordained
minister in 1954 and served at the First Church of Religious Science, in Oakland until her death in 1969.
Preferred citation: Photographs from the Lillian Glaser Hopper and DeWolf Hopper papers, BANC PIC 2015.065, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
Approximately 200 photographs in one box and 18 oversize folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; various sizes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.