Guide to the Samuel Stark Collection of Theater Scrapbooks M0622
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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Language of Material:
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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.
Conditions Governing Access
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.
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.
Preferred Citation
Samuel Stark Collection of Theater Scrapbooks. M0622. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents
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).
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Related 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
Series 1: 19th Century American and British Stage
Box 1, volume 1
#1a - small minstrel scrapbook
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Possibly assembled by Roger Imhof (see M0611: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6w1005fc/). Contains several references
to and two photos of his associate Walter Sanford.
Box 1, volume 2
#6 - Vol. 1; clippings of performances at the Leland Opera House
1876-78
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Clelia D. Mosher.
Box 1, volume 3
#6- Vol. 2; clippings of performances at the Leland Opera House
1878-79
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Clelia D. Mosher.
Box 2
#12 - oversized volume - American theatre (mostly Boston)
1870s
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Hinta Hinslow. Sigma and Olga Ackerman bookplate
Box 1, volume 4
#15 - "Card Album"
1885
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings, reviews
Box 1, volume 5
#16 - Theatre clippings, programs, and handwritten commentary (San Francisco & New York)
1883
Box 3, volume 1
#32 - scrapbook of Adelaide Merton
circa 1892-98
Scope and Contents note
Poems, clippings of theatre reviews and pictures of actors
Box 3, volume 2
#61 - scrapbook on American actor Edwin Booth
1893
Box 3, volume 3
#93 - scrapbook of Mr. Wilson Barrett compiled by Miss Queenie Dobbin
circa 1898-1900
Scope and Contents note
Theatre reviews
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Elisabeth Lee Buckingham.
Box 3, volume 4
#102 - "34 old newspapers, 1875-1880" The Mirror and American, Manchester, NH
Scope and Contents
"36 old newspapers of(
The Mirror and American) from Manchester, New Hampshire from the year 1875-1880, containing advertisements of old time Minstrel Shows also other
shows such as Buffalo Bill, Tony Pastor, Sol Smith Russell, Union Square Theater Combination, Barnabee, baseball, and other
items. Two orphans."
Many minstrel performance advertisements by the African American troupe the Original Georgia Minstrels. Also one advertisement
by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
Box 3, volume 5
#104 - "22 old newspapers, minstrel shows, ads; also museums and theatres"
1862-1869
Box 3, volume 6
#537 - McVicker's Bill of the Play (Chicago)
1876-77
Scope and Contents
Bound programs
Box 3, volume 7
#544 - Theatre programs, newspaper clippings, etc.
circa 1870s
Scope and Contents
Also includes 1870s University of California ephemera.
Box 4, volume 1
#565- "Compiled June '93 by Bessie McJohnston, Kentucky"
1890-93
Scope and Contents note
American theatre bills, 1890-93
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Note from Stark: "Bought at Schaeffer's Antique Shop, Tucson, Arizona 4/1959"
Box 5, volume 1
#573 - Pictorial of American Shakespearean actors
1895-96
Box 5, volume 2
#578 - compiled by Elizabeth Saunders
1909
Scope and Contents note
mostly articles, etc. on Joseph Jefferson, American stage actor, 1880s
Series 2: Photos of 19th & Early 20th Century American and British Actors
Box 6, volume 1
#1 - "The Theatre, England, 1878-81" photo album
Scope and Contents
"These photos are all from 'The Theatre' (England) 1878-1881." List of actors included.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Stark purchased this from Discovery Book Shop, San Francisco in 1961.
Box 6, volume 2
#3 - Alice L. Burtis scrapbooks (1 of 2)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
One of two scrapbooks bought by Sam Stark from Alice Burtis, Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1959. Contains correspondence about the
albums
Box 6, volume 3
#5 - Scrapbook of Famous Actors & Actresses of American Theatre
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Miss Carol Remele.
Box 7
#31 - Gebbie & Co. etchings of American Shakespearean actors
188-1888
Box 8
#35 - Tobacco premium photo album of female dancers and actors
1870s-80s
Scope and Contents
Album of cabinet cards published by Newsboy, New York and Honest Long Cut Tobacco Advertising Cards
Box 9, volume 1
#46 - embossed leather album with index; American stage actor cabinet cards
1888-1893
Box 10, volume 1
#47 - album of cabinet cards - American stage actors
Box 10, volume 2
#48 - Ellen Terry (British actress) family photo album
1880-1890s
Scope and Contents
Inserted note "Mrs. Max Heinrich was Anna Held. Was secretary to Ellen Terry. Photo album a gift of Miss Edith Heinrich, San
Francisco."
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Album has water damage.
Box 9, volume 2
#50 - British and American actors
Box 11
#75 - "Actors"; Stage - Theatre - Opera personalities
Scope and Contents
Almost all cartes-des-visite. Appears to also include personal portraits of non-actors. Most actors are identified.
Box 12
#76 - black leather album; 19th century American actor cabinet cards
Scope and Contents
Actors are pictured in alphabetical order, this volume containing A to B.
Box 13
#77 - embossed leather album; 19th century American actor cabinet cards/CDV
Scope and Contents
Most actors are pictured in alphabetical order, this volume containing "B-E" and others.
Box 14, volume 1
#78 - Ferdinand Dorsaz - Bradley & Rulofson photo album; American actors & theatre companies, 19th century
c1884-88
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated to Stark by Fred H. Dorsaz, Napa California 3/5/1963. "These photos were made and developed by his father [Ferdinand
Dorsaz]." According to handwritten notes by Dorsaz in the back of the volume, Ferdinand worked for prominent San Francisco
photography firm Bradley & Rulofson from 1870-1878.
Box 14, volume 2
#95 - Clippings of American stage actors & actresses
circa 1900-1905
Box 14, volume 3
#96 - Clippings and postcard portraits of celebrities, 1900-1920s
Box 15
#103 - stars of the 19th C.
Series 3: American Stage, c. l900-l920s
Box 16, volume 1
no # - clippings removed from charred gray cloth binder; photos & pictures of American actors in the Burr McIntosh Monthly,
January 1908; Theatre Magazine, January 1919
1908, 1919
Box 16, volume 2
#2 - programs, clippings c. 1904; most form New York, some from the Teck Theatre, Buffalo NY
circa 1904
Box 17, volume 1
#8 - Vol. 1; "The Stage" New York clippings, playbills, photographs, etc.
Prior to 1872
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of John Trotter.
Box 17, volume 2
#8 - Vol. 2; "The Stage" New York clippings, playbills, photographs, etc.
1872-1883
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of John Trotter.
Box 18, volume 1
#8 - Vol. 3; "The Stage" clippings programs, etc.
1884-1907
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of John Trotter.
Box 18, volume 2
#30 - "Theatre Record and Scrap Book" ; London and British productions in New York
circa 1903-1908
Box 18, volume 3
#49 - American and British theatre performances
1899-1909
Box 18, volume 4
#59 - Irish theatre; Abbey Theatre clippings, programs, some Austrian programs
1907
Box 18, volume 5
#69 - San Francisco theatre programs
1901-1902
Scope and Contents
Columbia Theatre, Fischer's Theatre, Tivoli Opera House, Alcatraz Theatre, Orpheum, etc.
Box 19, volume 1
#80 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances compiled by Aileen Owen
1901-09
Box 19, volume 2
#81 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances compiled by Aileen Owen September 1907
1906-07
Box 19, volume 3
#82 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances, compiled by Aileen Owen
1907-09
Box 19, volume 4
#83 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances compiled by Aileen Owen
1909-10
Box 19, volume 5
#84 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances compiled by Aileen Owen
1911
Box 19, volume 6
#85 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances compiled by Aileen Owen
1912-26
Box 19, volume 7
#86 - programs, pictures from New York City theatre performances,1929-30; "Plays I Have Seen"
Box 19, volume 8
#87 - "Theatre Vol. V, 1920"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 19, volume 9
#88 - "Theatre Vol. VI, 1921-22"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 19, volume 10
#89 - "Theatre Vol. VII, 1922-23, 1924-25"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 19, volume 11
#90 - "Theatre Vol. VIII, 1926-27"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 19, volume 12
#91 - "Theatre, January - August 1928"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 19, volume 13
#92 - "Theatre, September - December 1928"; programs, clippings, issues of "Phillybound"
Box 20, volume 1
#94 - San Francisco theatre programs, April 1905 - April 1906; a few Seattle programs
1905-1906
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Professor Elisabeth Lee Buckingham.
Box 20, volume 2
#97 - theatre record of Charles R. Hector; "St. James Theatre, Boston Stock Company, Season 1921-22"
Box 20, volume 3
#98 - theatre record of Charles R. Hector; "St. James Theatre, Boston Stock Company, Season 1922-23"
Box 20, volume 4
#99 - theatre record of Charles R. Hector; "St. James Theatre, Boston Stock Company, Season 1923-24"
Box 20, volume 5
#100 - theatre record of Charles R. Hector; "St. James Theatre, Boston Stock Company, Season 1924-25"
Box 21, volume 1
#101 - "Mrs. Leland Stanford Lathrop's Scrapbook"; programs, clippings, etc., mostly California
Box 21, volume 2
#117 - pictures of plays from the periodical "New York Dramatic Mirror"
1916-17
Box 22, volume 1
#534 - programs from Boston theatres
1910
Box 22, volume 2
#535 - programs from Boston theatres
1911
Box 22, volume 3
#536 - programs from Boston theatres
1896-97
Box 23
#542 - vaudeville in San Francisco
1911-1914
Box 24
#543 - vaudeville, light theatre programs, San Francisco theatres
circa 1906-1911
Box 25, volume 1
#569 - clippings of pictures and playbills, "American Stage"
circa 1904-1916
Box 25, volume 2
#574 - portraits of playwrights, directors and composers , some related to a "Lamb's All-Star Gambol" May 1909
Series 4: American Film, Silents to 1940s
Box 26, volume 1
film scrapbook, "Marie Antoinette," starring Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power
Box 27, volume 1
"Cinema Stars Vol. 1," put together by Arthur and Elaine at The Deanery
Box 27, volume 2
"Cinema Stars Vol. 2" put together by Arthur and Elaine at The Deanery
Box 27, volume 3
"Cinema Stars Vol. 3" put together by Arthur and Elaine at The Deanery
Box 27, volume 4
"Cinema Stars Vol. 4"; put together by Arthur and Elaine at The Deanery; plus Carole Lombard's life story
Box 27, volume 5
"Cinema Stars Vol. 5" put together by Arthur and Elaine at The Deanery
Box 26, volume 3
#4 - "I Pagliacci"; homemade scrapbook of silent film stars
Box 26, volume 4
#7 - "People Who Cast Bright Shadows"; silent film stars
Box 26, volume 5
#9 - "Scenes from Productions Starring Richard Barthelmess"
Box 29, volume 1
#10 - "Dream Folks" picture album of silent film stars
Box 29, volume 2
#12a - Shirley Vance Martin "To My Friend Henry G. Meyer, With Best Wishes From Jackie Coogan In My Own Play "My Boy" First
National printed photo album
1921
Box 28, volume 1
#29 oversized film scrapbook - purple and gold "Krasiva Metals Fall & Winter 1938" scrapbook; pictorial of American movie
stars, 1910s-40s.
Box 29, volume 3
#34 - "Fox: A Standard of Business in the Realm of Entertainment" Fox Film Corporation press book
1926
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Some inset portraits missing
Box 28, volume 3
#37 Claude Allister scrapbook (see volumes 2A & 36 for more)
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Some items water damaged
Box 30
#38 - "Paramount Pictures: Jewels of the Silent Stage" Progressive Motion Picture Co.
circa 1916
Box 31
#45 - "Miscellaneous"; film, theater and other subjects - articles, ephemera, Tom Lindsay correspondence
Series 5: 20th c. American Theater
Box 32, volume 1
#14 - "Henry Lofgren Minstrel Show Clippings"
1930s-40s
Box 32, volume 2
#17 - Henry Lofgren "Theatre" scrapbook; obituaries, other clippings
1930s-40s
Box 32, volume 3
#19 - Journal F. Gasebekeuchtung - Theatre Magazine, New Haven programs, clippings and ephemera
1921-1922
Box 32, volume 4
#20 - a scrapbook of music and dance programs from San Francisco Bay Area including ballet dancers Yvonne Georgi and Harald
Kreutzberg
circa 1929-1933
Box 33, volume 1
#60 - "Moscow Art Theatre 50th Anniversary" photo album
1948
Box 33, volume 2
#70 - Vol. 1; Noel Coward, 1930s-40s film and stage stars, American and British
Box 33, volume 3
#70 - Vol. 2; Noel Coward, 1930s-40s film and stage stars, American and British
Box 33, volume 4
#70 - Vol. 3; Noel Coward, 1930s-40s film and stage stars, American and British
Box 33, volume 5
#74 - drama reviews, New York Times
1936-1938
Box 34, volume 1
#79 - Vol. 1; censorship in theater & motion pictures, clippings, memoranda, correspondence, etc.; circa 1927-1936
Box 34, volume 2
#79 - Vol. 2; censorship in theater & motion pictures, clippings, memoranda, correspondence, etc.; circa 1927-1936
Box 35
#105 - Henry Lofgren scrapbook - Bob Emmet minstrel show columns, obituaries, other clippings
circa 1933-45
Box 36, volume 1
#111 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; 1928-1934
Box 36, volume 2
#112 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; September
1935 - September 1935
Box 36, volume 3
#113 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; September
1935 - September 1936
Box 37, volume 1
#114 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; September
1936 - August 1937; also Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, San Francisco
Box 37, volume 2
#115 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; September
1937 - August 1938 (Ralph Shran)
Box 37, volume 3
#116 - Ralph Schram scrapbook theatre programs and reviews; Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena Playhouse, UCLA, USC; September
1938 - December 1939
Box 38
#572 - programs from San Francisco, Berkeley, and other Bay Area theatres
circa 1920-1932
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by Stark from Holmes Books, Oakland 4/4/1962.
Series 6: Personal Collections of Photos, Clippings, Programs, Etc.; American Theatre and Film History
Box 39, volume 1
#11 - Sam Stark scrapbook/photo album; film actors on and off set, various clippings mostly about the Lunts and Thomas Gomez
Box 39, folder 2
#11 Sam Stark photo album/scrapbook - Thomas Gomez scripts, production call sheets, programs, etc.
Box 39, volume 3
#18 - New York City Theatres And Places of Amusement
Box 39, volume 4
#21 - "Down Memory Lane with Tom Lindsay"; film and drama newspaper columns
Box 40, volume 1
#26 - scrapbook of Thomas Lindsay; clippings, correspondence, etc.
1941-42
Box 40, volume 2
#39 - clippings about California theatres
1900-30s
Box 41, volume 1
#40 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
1920s-50s
Box 41, volume 2
#41 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1960-62
Box 41, volume 3
#42 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1963-64
Box 41, volume 4
#43 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1964-65
Box 40, volume 3
#44 - Betty Longley, Salem Massachusetts scrapbook of early film and American stage
l916-1918
Box 41, volume 5
#51 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1966
Box 41, volume 6
#52 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1967
Box 41, volume 7
#53 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1963-1964
Box 41, volume 8
#54 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1964-1965
Box 41, volume 9
#55 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1965-1966
Box 41, volume 10
#56 - columns by Patterson Greene, theatre and film commentator, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
1966-67
Box 42, volume 1
#57 - scrapbook of John Stein, press agent and presenter; programs, clippings, autographed photos
Box 28, volume 2
#58 - photographs of American theatres
Box 42, volume 2
#68 - scrapbook on Anton Chekov (1860-1904) "for the centenary of his birth"
Box 43, volume 1
#106. Henry Lofgren "Theater - Old Family Minstrels, Showboat" scrapbook of clippings
Box 43, volume 2
#107 - Prize Fights Cuts. H. Frazee Cut This Paper
Scope and Contents
Boxing scrapbook, mostly clippings but some portrait postcards and three small handbills circa 1931. A little baseball content
as well. "H. Frazee" might be Harry Frazee, although some items must have been added prior to his death in 1929.
Box 46
#107a - Two envelopes of boxing clippings, publications and photographs (probably once inserted in scrapbook)
Box 44, volume 1
#108 - Henry Lofgren "Theater General" - newspaper clippings - Billboard columns, obituaries, etc.
1895-1947
Box 44, volume 3
#109 - Henry Lofgren theatre clippings, especially "Show Boat" and minstrelsy
1947
Box 44, volume 4
#110 - Henry Lofgren "Old Man River" river boat clippings
1940s
Box 45, volume 1
#562 - Henry Lofgren "Magicians' Programs"
1920s-1950s
Box 45, volume 2
#563 - Henry Lofgren scrapbook of clippings and programs
circa 1954
Box 45, folder 3
#570 - Margaret Storey "Programs, Photos" file including "Players' Nursery" script from Stanford Dramatists' Alliance 1940
Scope and Contents
Storey was an actor and stage manager for the Bonstelle Company in Detroit circa 1924-1926 and later directed plays.
Series 7: Theatre and Film Star Scrapbooks
Scope and Contents
Some are bound volumes with printed names, others are thinner paper folders. Most appear to have been assembled by the same
person, probably Tom Lindsay, a journalist for the Long Beach Press Telegram.
Box 48, folder 1
#2a - Claude Allister (envelope of photos, clippings etc.)
Related Materials
See also scrapbooks #36 & 37.
Box 49, volume 1
#4 - The Barrymores (Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore etc.)
Box 49, folder 2
#73 - Barrymore clippings
Box 51, volume 2
#6 - Vol. 1; Sarah Bernhardt
Box 51, volume 3
#6 - Vol. 2; Sarah Bernhardt
Box 52, volume 2
#9 - Irene & Vernon Castle
Box 52, volume 8
#15 - The Drews (John Drew, John Drew II, Louise Drew, Sidney Drew, Lucille Drew)
Box 53, volume 1
#16 - Gertrude and Maxine Elliott
Box 53, volume 2
#17 - Douglas Fairbanks & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Box 53, volume 4
#19 - Minnie Madden Fiske
Box 54, volume 2
#21 - Trixie Friganza
Scope and Contents
Many photographs, some inscribed or autographed. Handwritten letters and postcards to Tom Lindsay. Lindsay draft of letter
to Walter Winchell.
Box 54, volume 4
#23 - Dorothy and Lillian Gish
Box 54, volume 5
#24 - Giida Gray By Herself, Preserved by Roger Imhof 1946 [from Imhof's collection]
Related Materials
See also Roger Imhof vaudeville, variety, circus, and movie scrapbooks (M0611)
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6w1005fc/
Box 58, volume 1
#38 - Constance and Norma Talmadge
Box 59
#40 - Fay Templeton
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, typescripts, MGM contract, photographs
Series 8: American Stage Playwrights, 1900-1930s
Box 60, volume 1
#1 - George Ade, Louis Anspacker, Paul Armstrong, Frederick Ballard, Phillip Barry, Tom Barry, Philip Bartholomae, Dion Boucicault
Box 60, volume 2
#2 - George H. Broadhurst, Porter Emerson Browne, Thompson Buchanan, Anne Caidwell, Edward Childs Carpenter, Joseph I. C.
Clarke, George N. Cohan
Box 60, volume 3
#3 - Frank Craven, Rachel Crothers, Owen Davis, Richard H.Davis, William C. DeMille, Lee Wilson Dodd, Edith Ellis
Box 60, volume 4
#4 - Clyde Fitch, James Forbes, Eleanor Gates
Box 60, volume 5
#5 - William Gillette, Jules E. Goodman, Frederick Hutton, George Hazelton, Charles Hoyt, Avery Hopwood, Sidney Howard, Bronson
Howard
Box 60, volume 6
#6 - Rupert Hughes, William Hurlburt, Charles R. Kennedy, Charles Kenyon, Paul Kester, Charles Klein
Box 60, volume 7
#7 - Charles Klein, Edward Knoblauch, Theodore Kramer, John L.Long, Percy MacKaye
Box 60, volume 8
#8 - C.S. N. McClellan, J. H. Manners, Margaret Mayo, Roi C.Megrue, George Middleton, Langdon Mitchell, James Montgomery,
William Vaughn Moody, Carlyle Moore
Box 60, volume 9
#9 - Martha Morton, Charles Nirdlinger, Lottie B. Parker, Joseph Patterson, Edward Paulson, Harry Paulton, Josephine Peabody,
Edward Peple, Channing Pollack
Box 60, volume 10
#10 - Eugene Presbrey, James Reid, Sydney Rosenfeld, Edwin Royle, N. C. Ryley, Theodore B. Sayre, George Scarborough, Edgar
Selwyn, G. B. Shaw
Box 60, volume 11
#11 - G.B. Shaw, Edward Sheldon, Louis E. Shipman, Harry Smith, Winchell Smith
Box 60, volume 12
#12 - Evelyn Sutherland, Booth Tarkington, Charles Taylor, Albert Thomas, Augustus Thomas, Denham Thompson
Box 60, volume 13
#13 - Richard Tully, Bayard Beiller, Eugene Walter, Jessie Williams, William Winter
