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Additional authors

1. Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925
2. Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
3. New York Photo-Gravure Company, photographer
4. American Tobacco Company.
5. Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company.

Description

1. 1 volume; 35.5 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook extensively documents actresses, actors, singers, and dancers of interest to Bertha L'hommedieu Greene during her adolescence and young adulthood through published portrait albumen photographs, large-format photogravure images, and chromolithograph and albumen cards included with Sweet Caporal and Jack Rose cigarettes. The images are primarily of female performers from the United States and Europe, many costumed for roles. In most examples, the sitter's name and a publisher's stock image number is included in the image. For others, L'hommedieu made manuscript attributions next to or on the verso of the image. Of note, portrait photographs of Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison and a small group of U.S. presidents and other prominent civic, literary, and military figures are also present. A few loose portrait photographs, portrait photogravures, newspaper clippings, and autograph examples are also included.
2. Identified personalities include Viola Allen, Mary Anderson, Belle Archer, Lawrence Barrett, Wilson Barrett, Kyrle Bellew, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Hope Booth, Josephine Louise Boucicault, Anna Boyd, Marie Burroughs, Amy Busby, Emma Calvé, Carmencita, Leslie Carter, Georgia Cayvan, Bessie Clayton, Estelle Clayton, W. H. Crane, Camille D'Arville, Fannie Davenport, Jefferson De Angelis, Zélie De Lussan, Dorothy Dene, Emma Eames, Thomas A. Edison, Cissy Fitzgerald, Della Fox, William Gillette, Jennie Goldthwaite, Nat Goodwin, Maud Granger, Lulu Glaser, Pauline Hall, Minnie Hauk, Annie Held, Edna Wallace Hopper, Henry Irving, Joseph Jefferson, Lyla Kavenaugh, Herbert Kelcey, Kathryn Kidder, Lillie Langtry, Madge Lessing, Cissy Loftus, Inez L'Orma, Richard Mansfield, Margaret Mather, Julia Marlowe, Metzer & Desprez, Henry Miller, Caroline Miskel-Hoyt, Helena Modjeska, Marion Manola, Adelaide Nielson, Caroline "La Belle" Otero, Minnie Palmer, Tony Pastor, Ada Rehan, Fanny Rice, Adele Ritchie, Lillian Russell, Marie Shortwell, Cora Tanner, Marie Tempest, Ellen Terry, Vesta Tilley, H. Beerbohm Tree, Mark Twain, Theresa Vaughn, Queenie Vassar, and Blanche Walsh.

Subject

1. Allen, Viola, 1867-1948
2. Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940
3. Archer, Belle, 1858-1900
4. Barrett, Lawrence, 1838-1891
5. Barrett, Wilson, 1846-1904
6. Bellew, Kyrle, 1855-1911
7. Bernhardt, Sarah 1844-1923
8. Blauvelt, Lillian, 1873-1947
9. Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
10. Booth, Hope 1878-1933
11. Boucicault, Josephine Louise Thorndyke, 1864?-1956
12. Boyd, Anna
13. Burroughs, Marie
14. Busby, Amy, 1872-1957
15. Calvé, Emma, 1858-1942
16. Carmencita
17. Carter, Leslie, Mrs., 1862-1937
18. Cayvan, Georgia, 1858-1906
19. Clayton, Bessie
20. Clayton, Estelle
21. Crane, William H., 1845-1928
22. D'Arville, Camille
23. Davenport, Fanny, 1850-1898
24. De Angelis, Jefferson, 1859-1933
25. De Lussan, Zélie, 1861-1949
26. Dene, Dorothy, 1859-1899
27. Depew, Chauncey M. 1834-1928
28. Eames, Emma, 1865-1952
29. Edison, Thomas A. 1847-1931
30. Fitzgerald, Cissy, 1873-1941
31. Fox, Della
32. Gillette, William, 1853-1937
33. Glaser, Lulu, 1874-1958
34. Goodwin, Nat. C. 1857-1919
35. Granger, Maude, 1850 or 1851-1928
36. Hall, Pauline, 1860-1919
37. Hauk, Minnie, 1851-1929
38. Held, Anna, 1877?-1918
39. Hopper, Edna Wallace, -1959
40. Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
41. Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905
42. Kavenaugh, Lyla
43. Kelcey, Herbert, 1856-1917
44. Kidder, Kathryn
45. Langtry, Lillie, 1853-1929
46. Lessing, Madge
47. L'Orma, Inez
48. Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-1943
49. Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
50. Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950
51. Mather, Margaret, 1859-1898
52. Miller, Henry, 1860-1926
53. Miskel-Hoyt, Caroline, 1873-1898
54. Modjeska, Helena, 1840-1909
55. Manola, Marion
56. Neilson, Adelaide, 1848-1880
57. Rehan, Ada, 1857-1916
58. Ritchie, Adele, 1874-1930
59. Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922
60. Otero, Caroline, 1868-1965
61. Palmer, Minnie, -1936
62. Pastor, Tony, 1837-1908
63. Rice, Fanny, 1859-1936
64. Tanner, Cora English, 1860?-1946
65. Tempest, Marie, 1866-1942
66. Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928
67. Tilley, Vesta, 1864-1952
68. Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917
69. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
70. Vassar, Queenie, 1870-1960
71. Vaughn, Theresa, 1867-1903
72. Walsh, Blanche, 1873-1915
73. Actresses -- United States -- 19th century -- Photographs.
74. Actors -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Photographs
75. Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Photographs
76. Advertising -- Cigarettes.
77. Costume.

Genre/Form

1. Cigarette cards.
2. Photographic prints.
3. Photogravures (prints).
4. Publicity photographs.
5. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. *T-Vim 2018-015

Source (note)

1. Glenn Bowman and Elizabeth Cowie

Author

1. L'hommedieu, Bertha Violetta, 1866-1968.

Title

1. Bertha L'hommedieu scrapbook, circa late 1870s-late 1890s.

Biography

1. Bertha Violetta L'hommedieu was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 27, 1866. She married Delbert Greene on October 2, 1888, and lived in Brooklyn until moving to Smithtown, Long Island, New York, in 1961. She died in 1968 at the age of 102.

Source

1. Gift: Glenn Bowman and Elizabeth Cowie, 2018.

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Added author

1. Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925, photographer
2. Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer
3. New York Photo-Gravure Company, photographer
4. American Tobacco Company.
5. Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company.

Research call number

1. *T-Vim 2018-015