Research Catalog

Title

Ira Aldridge portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1850?-1959?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Fall, Thomas.
• Calvi, Pietro Fortunato, 1817-1855.
• Associated Publishers.
• R. Mason & Co.
• Negro in Performing Arts (1963 : Chicago, Ill.)

Description

• 67 items (.3 cu.ft., 1 box); 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <63> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <2> photomechanical prints : b&w ;
• <2> photoprints : albumen ;

Summary

Views of theater actor Ira Aldridge. The collection includes half-length and full-length portraits of Aldridge both in and out of theatrical costume, as he was depicted in 19th century illustrations, prints, paintings and photographs. Theatrical roles depicted include Othello, King Lear, Shylock, Zanga in the Revenge, Aaron in Titus Andronicus and Mango in the Padlock. Also, half-length portrait views of Aldridge's wives, Margaret and Amanda, two daughters, two sons and one grandson; portrait views of people Aldridge met while touring-identified subjects include singer Jenny Lind, writer and critic Theophile Gautier, actor James Wallack, actress Annette Langenbaum, Olga, Catherine and Fyodor Tolstoy, Alexander Dumas, Mikhail Shchepkin, Ellen Tree and poet Taras Shevchenko. Also, views of Aldridge's home in London, gravesite in Lodz Poland, memorial chair in the Shakespere Memorial Theatre in England and a copy of a 1833 playbill announcing a performance; also views of the Aldridge statue by Pietro Calvi and of an exhibit in honor of Aldridge at the Chicago Public library in 1954.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867
• Actresses > 1800-1899
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Merchant of Venice
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Titus Andronicus
• Portrait paintings > Reproductions
• Costumes > 1800-1899
• Miscegenation
• Exhibitions
• African American families
• Aldridge, Luranah Paulina
• Silver gelatin photoprints
• Young, Edward, 1683-1765 > Revenge
• Aldridge, Margaret Gill
• Albumen photoprints
• Families
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Othello
• Sculpture > Reproductions
• Aldridge, Ira Frederick Olaf
• Monuments & memorials
• Portrait photographs
• Broadsides > Reproductions
• Dwellings
• Postcards
• African American actors
• Cabinet card photographs
• Ring, Montague
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > King Lear
• Actors > 1800-1899
• Aldridge, Amanda Paulina
• Portrait drawings > Reproductions
• Clothing & dress > 1800-1899
• Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812 > Padlock
• Illustrations > Reproductions
• Photomechanical prints

Genre/Form

• Sculpture – Reproductions.
• Portrait photographs.
• Portrait drawings – Reproductions.
• Portrait paintings – Reproductions.
• Broadsides – Reproductions.
• Postcards.
• Illustrations – Reproductions.
• Photomechanical prints.
• Silver gelatin photoprints.
• Albumen photoprints.
• Cabinet card photographs.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Many of the images are in Ira Aldridge the Negro Tragedian, by Mildred Stock and Herbert Marshall, New York, Macmillan Co. 1958.
• Some of the images are duplicates. Captions and inscriptions on some images.
• Some of the images were used in Noble Sissle's exhibition Negro in Performing Arts, held at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 16-Sept. 2 1963.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Aldridge, Ira

OCLC

NYPG085000107-F

Title

Ira Aldridge portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1850?-1959?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Fall, Thomas. Photographer to the Queen.

Calvi, Pietro Fortunato, 1817-1855.

Associated Publishers.

R. Mason & Co.

Negro in Performing Arts (1963 : Chicago, Ill.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Aldridge, Ira