Stark (Samuel) collection of theater scrapbooks, 1860-1960, bulk 1890-1930

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Summary

Title:
Samuel Stark collection of theater scrapbooks
Dates:
1860-1960, bulk 1890-1930
Creators:
Stark, Samuel
Abstract:
Collection of scrapbooks documenting 19th century & early 20th century actors with clippings, playbills, programs, photographs and other ephemera.
Extent:
37 Linear Feet (64 boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Samuel Stark Collection of Theater Scrapbooks. M0622. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection of scrapbooks documenting 19th century and early 20th century stage and film actors with clippings, playbills, programs, photographs and other ephemera. Although the scrapbooks once belonged to Samuel Stark, they were created by many different people, some historians, some fellow actors or stagehands, and others more likely contemporary fans.

These scrapbooks frequently contain handwritten reviews, captions, and remembrances, as well as personal ephemera and material related to other notable figures and celebrities. Some contain autographed and inscribed photographs and correspondence with the actors themselves.

The emphasis is primarily on stage drama, but there is much material on vaudeville, minstrelsy, and dance. The silent era of filmmaking is also covered in some detail. There are scrapbooks on boxing and magicians (one each).

Biographical / historical:

Stark was an authority on and a collector of theater history. Stark's collection was started by his mother and aunt. Stark's paternal grandmother was the sister of Joseph Schurmann of Holland, a French impressario who brought Bernhardt, Duse, and Patti to the U.S. The core collection came to Stark on his mother's death in 1936, and he built on it through additional gifts and purchases.

This collection is only a small part of what he gave to Stanford.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Samuel Stark.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Theater -- History
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Boxing.
Blackface entertainers
Minstrel music
Vaudeville -- United States.
Magic -- History.
Circus -- United States.
Playbills
Theater programs
Names:
Abbey Theatre
Teck Theatre (Buffalo, NY)
Moscow Art Theatre.
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, Calif.)
Harry Lofgren Minstrel Show.
Gable, Clark
Friganza, Trixie.
Georgi, Yvonne.
Gates, Eleanor
Fitch, Clyde
Frederick, Pauline
Forbes, James
Fairbanks, Douglas
Epenscheid, Gertrude E. (Gertrude Elliot.)
Fields, Weber C.
Farrar, Geraldine
Dodd, Lee Wilson.
DeMille, William C.
Ellis, Edith.
Dressler, Marie
Crothers, Rachel
Davis, Bette
Davis, Owen
Davis, Richard H.
Coleman, Ronald.
Cooper, Jackie
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973
Craven, Frank
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Clarke, Joseph I. C.
Cohan, George M. (George Michael), 1878-1942
Cagney, James
Caldwell, Anne.
Carpenter, Edward Childs.
Castle, Irene
Hoyt, Charles H.
Williams, Jessie.
Burke, Billie, 1885-1970
Winter, William.
Buchanan, Thompson.
Walter, Eugene
Browne, Porter Emerson
Broadhurst, George H.
Tully, Richard Walton
Boucicault, Dion
Valentino, Rudolph
Booth, Edwin Gilliam, 1810-1886
Thomas, Augustus
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
Thompson, Denham.
Benny, Jack
Beiller, Bayard.
Bates, Blanche, 1873-1941
Bartholomae, Philip.
Barthelmess, Richard
Barrymore, John, 1882-1942
Barrymore, Ethel
Young, Rida Johnson.
Barry, Tom
Swanson, Gloria.
Ballard, Frederick
Sutherland, Evelyn.
Barry, Phillip.
Stewart, Anita
Anspacker, Louis.
Starr, Frances.
Armstrong, Paul
Allister, Claude, 1891-1970
Shipman, Louis Evan
Anglin, Margaret
Sheldon, Edward.
Ade, George, 1866-1944
Shearer, Norma
Allen, Viola, 1867-1948
Thomas, A. E. (Albert Ellsworth)
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
Templeton, Fay.
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
Tanguay, Eva
Talmadge, Norma
Talmadge, Constance
Peabody, Josephine Preston
Peple, Edward
Pickford, Mary
Power, Tyrone
Presbrey, Eugene W. (Eugene Wiley)
Reid, James.
Ring, Blanche.
Rosenfeld, Sydney, 1855-1931
Royle, Edwin Milton
West, Mae
Runyon, Damon, 1880-1946
Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922
Ryley, M. C.
Sayre, Theodore Burt.
Scarborough, George Adolphus,
Selwyn, Edgar
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn
Middleton, George.
Moody, William Vaughn
Montgomery, James
Moore, Martha
Moore, Carlyle
Moore, Victor
Nirdlinger, Charles Frederic.
Nazimova, Alla
Parker, Lottie Blair.
Patterson, Joseph.
Paulton, Harry
Stanford, Jane Lathrop
Paulson, Edward.
Kester, Paul
Klein, Charles
Kennedy, Charles R.
Kenyon, Charles
Lombard, Carole
Long, John L.
Knoblauch, Edward
Kreutzberg, Harald
Manners, J. Hartley.
Marlowe, Julia
MacKaye, Percy
Mannering, Mary.
McClellan, C. S. M.
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Megrue, Roi Cooper
May, Edna.
Mayo, Margaret
Gray, Gilda.
Goodman, Jules E.
Gish, Lillian
Gillette, William, 1853-1937
Held, Anna
Hazelton, George.
Greene, Patterson.
Howard, Sidney.
Howard, Bronson
Hopwood, Avery
Jefferson, Joseph
Hutton, Frederick.
Hurlburt, William.
Hughes, Rupert

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Preferred citation:

Samuel Stark Collection of Theater Scrapbooks. M0622. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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