Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1016 volumes and 2,215 portfolios

Summary

1. The Robinson Locke collection consists of dramatic scrapbooks and portfolios containing clippings, programs, photographs, prints, and letters documenting American theater history.

Subject

1. Black people in the performing arts > New York (State) > New York
2. Garden, Mary, 1877-1967
3. Burlesque (Theater)
4. Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922
5. Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
6. Photoprints
7. Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941
8. Programs
9. Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943
10. Burke, Billie, 1885-1970
11. Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
12. Vaudeville
13. Anglin, Margaret, 1876-1958
14. Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
15. Nazimova, 1879-1945
16. Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950
17. Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 1865-1932
18. Theater > United States > History > 19th century
19. Bara, Theda, 1885-1955
20. Singers
21. Carter, Leslie, Mrs., 1862-1937
22. Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967
23. Pickford, Mary, 1893-
24. Irving, H. B (Henry Brodribb), 1870-1919
25. Faversham, William, 1868-1940
26. Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
27. Belasco, David, 1853-1931
28. Theater > United States > History > 20th century
29. Barrymore, Ethel, 1879-1959
30. Nethersole, Olga, 1870-1951
31. Sothern, E. H (Edward Hugh), 1859-1933
32. Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
33. Adams, Maude, 1872-1953
34. Clippings
35. Minstrel shows
36. Cohan, George M (George Michael), 1878-1942
37. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
38. Actors

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Programs.
3. Photoprints.

Call number

1. NAFR+

Note

1. Also known as the Robinson Locke collection of dramatic scrapbooks.
2. Microfilm must be used for viewing the collection in all cases where it exists.

Additional formats (note)

1. is also available on microfilm;
2. is also available on microfilm

Source (note)

1. Locke, Robinson

Biography (note)

1. Owner and editor of the Toledo Blade, an Ohio newspaper founded by his father, Locke was a serious collector of material documenting American theater history.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Cards available in card catalog.
2. An index to programs bound in Series 1, compiled by the State, County and Local Historical Survey of the WPA, is available as a finding aid.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Collector

Title

1. Robinson Locke collection, 1870-1920.

Additional formats

1. Series 1 is also available on microfilm; Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; call number *ZC-528.
2. Modjeska-Montgomery volume in Series II is also available on microfilm; Billy Rose Theatre Division, call number *ZC-511.
3. Envelope 1426 in Series IV (Charles Meakins) is also available on microfilm; Billy Rose Theatre Division, call number *ZC-200.

Additional formats

1. Mrs. Leslie Carter (Series II, vol. 27) is also available on microfilm: Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; service copy number: *ZC-609.

Biography

1. Owner and editor of the Toledo Blade, an Ohio newspaper founded by his father, Locke was a serious collector of material documenting American theater history.
2. From the 1890s, Locke served as drama critic for his newspaper under the name of Rodney Lee. Starting as a small reference collection of theatrical clippings to support his work, the collection expanded by gift and purchase. Soon a growing staff was required to clip all items of theatrical interest from the many national newspapers and magazines Locke received, and to paste the material into scrapbooks. Locke often travelled to New York to attend performances and Toledo was frequented by touring companies. According to Locke's wife, for many years until his death, every musical or dramatic artist who visited Toledo, visited Locke and his collection and almost always donated an autographed portrait. Locke was married twice: in 1886 to Kate King who died in 1894, and in 1909 to Mabel Dixey, a former actress, who gave addenda to the collection after his death.

Indexes

1. Cards available in card catalog.
2. An index to programs bound in Series 1, compiled by the State, County and Local Historical Survey of the WPA, is available as a finding aid.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
3. Finding Aid

Research call number

1. NAFR+
2. *ZC-528
3. *ZAN-*T36