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Booth-Grossman family papers
- Title
- Booth-Grossman family papers, 1840-1953.
- Author
- Booth-Grossman family.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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| Vol/Date | Format | Access | Status | Call Number | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 5 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 6 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 7 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | Available | *T-Mss 1967-001 Box 8 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3.5 lin. ft. (8 boxes).
- Subjects
- Grossman, Edwina Booth, 1861-
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
- Booth, Junius Brutus, 1796-1852
- Actors
- Grossman, Edwin Booth
- Photographic prints
- Barrett, Lawrence, 1838-1891
- Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
- Theater > United States
- Booth family
- Grossman family
- Booth, Junius Brutus, 1821-1883
- Grossman, Ignatius R
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- Booth, Mary Devlin, 1840-1863
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. White
- Biography (note)
- Edwin Booth, the focus of this collection of family papers, was one of the most famous American actors of the 19th century.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1967-001
- Author
- Booth-Grossman family.
- Title
- Booth-Grossman family papers, 1840-1953.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Summary
- The collection contains correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, personal ephemera, programs, printed material and a few speeches. The primary focus of the collection is on the actor Edwin Booth. While there is some professional correspondence and letters from Booth's first wife, Mary Devlin Booth, the bulk of the correspondence consists of his letters to his daughter Edwina from 1867 until his death in 1893, many written while he was on tour. Most of these include her transcriptions made in preparation for her book, EDWIN BOOTH: RECOLLECTIONS BY HIS DAUGHTER EDWINA BOOTH GROSSMAN AND LETTERS TO HER AND TO HIS FRIENDS, a published edition of a selection of edited letters to his family and friends. The writings include Edwina Booth Grossman's reminiscences of her father, the clippings document Booth's theatrical career, the printed material is mainly about Booth and the photographs are of Booth as well as of his immediate family members and descendants.The collection is also of interest for the light it sheds on family life and social relations in the 19th century and for the times when the larger world intrudes as in a Civil War soldier's account of a battle, transcribed in a letter to Mary Devlin Booth. There are, however, no clippings documenting the Lincoln assassination.
- Biography
- Edwin Booth, the focus of this collection of family papers, was one of the most famous American actors of the 19th century. Other family members represented in this collection are his first wife, Mary Devlin Booth, their daughter and his biographer, Edwina Booth Grossman and her husband, Ignatius R. Grossman. There is only a small amount of material on Booth's father, the actor Junius Brutus Booth Sr. and his acting brothers, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. and John Wilkes Booth, most famous as the man who assassinated President Lincoln.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893.Booth, Mary Devlin, 1840-1863.Grossman, Edwina Booth, 1861-
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1967-001