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English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Samuel Stark collection of theater scrapbooks
Identifier/Call Number: M0622
Physical Description:
35 Linear Feet
(60 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1860-1960
Date (bulk): 1890-1930
Abstract: Collection of scrapbooks documenting 19th century & early 20th century actors with clippings, playbills, programs, photographs
and other ephemera.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Samuel Stark.
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.
Samuel Stark Collection of Theater Scrapbooks. M0622. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Collection of scrapbooks documenting 19th century & 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, dance, burlesque and circus
work. The silent era of filmaking is also covered in some detail. There are scrapbooks on boxing and magicians (one each).
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. Some of
these materials are believed to be in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use of public domain materials.
The following list represents our major theater history collections (mostly excluding those devoted only to film):
M0076 Lind (Jenny) collection 1835-1919
M0109 McGiveney (Owen) letters 1917-[1930]
M0124 Theater collection 1849-1964
M0125 Kate Felton Elkins Collection 1775-1927
M0154 Theater Collection 1844-1965
M0157 Nicholson (Watson) Papers circa 1903-1921
M0192 Daves (Delmer) papers 1930-1965
M0201 Theatre collection 1937-1967
M0209 Porter (Cole) papers 1936-1971
M0593 Samuel Stark Theatre collection [addenda] 1868-1990
M0611 Imhof (Roger) vaudeville scrapbooks 1816-1952
M0622 Stark, (Samuel) Collection of Theater Scrapbooks 1860-1960
M0644 Theater programs from East Germany 1951-1973
M1107 Vienna : Theater Posters 1839-1855
M1133 Lahad (Ezra) Yiddish & Hebrew theater ephemera 1936-1974
M1148 Lurie (Louis R.) collection of Curran and Geary Theater press books
1923-1976
M1149 Samuel Stark theater program collection 1852-1982
M1150 San Francisco Players Guild records 1949-1976
M1151 Theater organization newsletters circa 1933-1982
M1801 Marton family collection of United States and international performance
programs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theater -- History
Scrapbooks
Playbills
Photographs
Theater programs
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Boxing.
Blackface entertainers
Minstrel music
Vaudeville -- United States.
Magic -- History.
Circus -- United States.
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)
Abbey Theatre
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
Templeton, Fay.
Teck Theatre (Buffalo, NY)
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
Moscow Art Theatre.
Moore, Victor
Nirdlinger, Charles Frederic.
Nazimova, Alla
Parker, Lottie Blair.
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
Patterson, Joseph.
Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, Calif.)
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.
Harry Lofgren Minstrel Show.
Greene, Patterson.
Howard, Sidney.
Howard, Bronson
Hopwood, Avery
Jefferson, Joseph
Hutton, Frederick.
Hurlburt, William.
Hughes, Rupert