Finding Aid for the Lester Barron Collection of Performing Artist Autographs, 1869-1975
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Finding Aid for the Lester Barron Collection of Performing Artist Autographs, 1869-1975
Collection number: 1378
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- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of Lester Barron, 1984.
- The original collector, Charles Norton Outcault, was the nephew of cartoonist Richard Fenton Outcault; he began collecting autographs at the age of sixteen, and most of the autographs were obtained by mail between 1912-15.
- Autographs organized alphabetically by last name (Boxes 1-3).
- Letters, theater playbills, and music score (Box 3).
1. Autograph Collection
A-B.
Scope and Content Note
- Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
- Anderson, William F.
- Bacheller, Irving, 1859-1950.
- Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922.
- Bispham, David Scull, 1857-1921.
- Boileau, Philip.
- Bolton, Sarah K.
- Booth, Maud B.
- Bope, Henry P.
- Burdette, Robert Jones, 1844-1914 (letter).
- Burdette, Robert Jones, 1844-1914 (autographed book, A Little Philosophy of Life, by Robert J. Burdette).
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924.
- Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937.
C-D.
Scope and Content Note
- Carrillo, Julian, 1875-1965 (handwritten music).
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917.
- Comstock, Harriet T.
- Conway, Patrick
- Cowan, Charlotte B.
- Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919.
- Culp, Julia, 1880-1970.
- Damrosch, Frank, 1859-1937.
- Damrosch, Walter Johannes, 1862-1950.
- Davenport, Homer Calvin, 1867-1912.
- Dearer, Edwin A. (photograph).
- de Gogorza, Emma Eames (see Nielson, Alice).
- DeLand, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.
- de Navarro, Mary Anderson, 1859-1940.
- Depew, Chauncey Mitchell, 1834-1928.
- Dillon, Mary.
- Drew, John, 1827-1862.
- Dufau, Jenny, 1878-1924.
E-G.
Scope and Content Note
- Early, Stephen.
- Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931 (photograph).
- Elman, Mischa.
- Fay, Amy.
- Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1834-1926.
- Fisher, Harrison, 1877-1934.
- Fitzu, Anna (photograph).
- Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937.
- Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 1853-1937.
- Fremstad, Anna Olivia, 1870-1951 (signed Olive Fremstad).
- Galan, Maite.
- Gaspard, Jules Maurice.
- George, William Reuben, 1866-1936.
- Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944.
- Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918.
H-J.
Scope and Content Note
- Halsy, Francis W.
- Hanly, J. Frank.
- Hawkes, Clarence.
- Hawley, C.B.
- Henderson, Florence.
- Hillis, Charles Dewey.
- Hillis, Newell Dwight, 1858-1929.
- Hinton, Katherine Goodson.
- Homer, Louise.
- Hopper, William DeWolf.
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
- Hubbard, Alice.
- Hubbard, Elbert Green, 1856-1915.
- Hutchinson, Woods, 1862-1930.
- Ireland, W.A. (see Wilson, Woodrow).
- Irwin, May, 1862-1938.
- Jones, John Paul (athlete).
K-L.
Scope and Content Note
- Kauffman, Henrietta L.
- Keller, Helen Adams, 1880-1968.
- Kellerman, Marcus.
- Kemble, Edward Windsor, 1861-1933.
- Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
- Knight, William, 1836-1916.
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932.
- Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929.
- Lindercrone, Lillie de Hegermann, Countess.
- Lindsey, Benjamin Barr, 1869-1943.
- Lippmann, Julie M.
M-N.
Scope and Content Note
- MacDowell, Marian.
- Macmillen, Francis.
- McConnell, Lincoln.
- McCormick, William A.
- McIntyre, O.O.
- Mace, W.H.
- Matzenauer, Margarete, 1881-1963.
- Melba, Nellie, 1865-1931 (photograph).
- Middleton, Daisy B.
- Montgomery, Francis Trego.
- Morrey, Grace Hamilton.
- Nazimova, Alla, 1879-1945.
- Nesbit, Wilbur.
- Nicholson, Meridith, 1866-1947.
- Nielson, Alice (on verso: de Gogorza, Emma Eames).
O-R.
Scope and Content Note
- Oberhoffer, Emil.
- O'Brien, Fredrick, 1869-1932.
- Outcalt, C.W., Dr. (letter to John T. Gray).
- Outcault, Richard Fenton, 1863-1928.
- Patterson, Virginia Sharpe.
- Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919 (photograph).
- Powell, Maud, 1868-1920.
- Powers, Leland.
- Presser, Theodore, 1848-1925.
- Pryor, Roger Atkinson, 1828-1919.
- Rambeau, Marjorie, 1889-1970.
- Ramin, Gunther, 1898-1956 (autographed recital program).
- Raymond, Annie Louise Cary.
- Rice, Alice Hegan.
- Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 (facsimile copy of Out to Aunt Mary's, handwritten by James Whitcomb Riley).
- Robertson-Miller, Ellen.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Ross, Penny (photograph).
S.
Scope and Content Note
- Sage, William.
- St. Gaudens, Louis (also St. Gaudens, Annetta).
- Saunders, Marshall (2 items).
- Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936.
- Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916.
- Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935.
- Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.
- Smith, Ella May (handwritten music).
- Spalding, Albert.
- Spencer, Elizabeth.
- Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
- Stoddard, John Lawson, 1850-1931 (3 items).
- Stutson, Norton.
T-V.
Scope and Content Note
- Terry, Ellen.
- Tetrazzini, Luisa, 1874-1940 (photograph and autographed sketch).
- Theobaldi, (Ole?), Dr.
- Thomlison, Ethel T. (handwritten music).
- Thompson, John H.
- Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933.
- Van Vliet, Cornelius, 1886-1973.
- Verlet, Alice (photograph).
W-Z.
Scope and Content Note
- Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922.
- Ward, Genevieve.
- Warfield, David, 1866-1951.
- Warren, Maude Radford.
- Warwick, Frances E. Maynard, Countess of, 1861-1938.
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921.
- Wetzler, Fanny (poem).
- Wheeler-Wilcox, Ella, 1850-1919.
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923.
- Williams, Evan.
- Wilson, A.W.
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (on verso: Ireland, W.A.).
- Winner, Frances.
- Winnett, T.H.
- Witherspoon, Herbert, 1873-1935.
- Ysaye, Eugene, 1858-1931.
- Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield, 1863-1927.
- Zimbalist, Alma Gluek, 1884-1938.
Miscellaneous Unidentified Autographs.
2. Letters from Dean Cornwell
Handwritten letters.
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3. Civil War Letters
Handwritten letters.
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4. Theater Playbills and Music Scores
Miscellaneous theater playbills.
Scope and Content Note
- Broadway Theatre - School for Scandal, 1947.
- Bronx Theatre - Modern Vaudeville, week of February 21, 1910.
- El Capitan Theatre - Anything Goes, 1935.
- Folly Theatre - Buster Brown.
Music Score.
Scope and Content Note
- 5. Feather Your Nest by Kendis E. Brockman and Howard Johnson.