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[, F/ V C Edna Hammer Cooley 1986 APPROVAL SHEET
WOMEN IN AMERICAN THEATRE, 1850-1870: A STUDY IN PROFESSIONAL EQUITY by Edna Hammer Cooley I i i Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland in parti.al fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ~ /, ,, ·' I . 1986 I/ '/ ' ·, Cop~ I , JI ,)() I co uI (~; 1 ,[, f/ v c Edna Hammer Cooley 1986 APPROVAL SHEET Title of Dissertation: Women in American Theatre, 1850-1870: A Study in Professional Equity Name of Candidate: Edna Hammer Cooley Doctor of Philosophy, 1986 Dissertation and Approved: Dr. Roger Meersman Professor Dept. of Communication Arts & Theatre Date Approved: .;;Jo .i? p ,vt_,,/ /9Y ,6 u ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: Women in American Theatre, 1850- 1870~ A Study_ in Professional Equi!:Y Edna Hammer Cooley, Doctor of Philosophy, 1986 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Roger Meersman Professor of Communication Arts and Theatre Department of Communication Arts and Theatre This study supports the contention that women in the American theatre from 1850 to 1870 experienced a unique degree of professional equity with men in the atre. The time-frame has been selected for two reasons: (1) actresses active after 1870 have been the subject of several dissertations and scholarly studies, while relatively little research has been completed on women active on the American stage prior to 1870, and (2) prior to 1850 there was limited theatre activity in this country and very few professional actresses. A general description of mid-nineteenth-century theatre and its social context is provided, including a summary of major developments in theatre in New York and other cities from 1850 to 1870, discussions of the star system, the combination company, and the mid-century audience. -
Proquest Dissertations
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Charlotte Cushman Papers
Charlotte Cushman Papers A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2008 Revised 2010 April Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact Additional search options available at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm77017525 Prepared by Audrey Walker Revised and expanded by Margaret McAleer Collection Summary Title: Charlotte Cushman Papers Span Dates: 1823-1941 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1861-1875) ID No.: MSS17525 Creator: Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876 Extent: 10,000 items ; 21 containers plus 1 oversize ; 5.5 linear feet ; 1 microfilm reel Language: Collection material in English Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. People Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882--Correspondence. Bigelow, John, 1817-1911--Correspondence. Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893--Correspondence. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861--Correspondence. Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866--Correspondence. Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872--Correspondence. Crow, Wayman, 1808-1885--Correspondence. Cushman, Charles Augustus, 1818-1896--Correspondence. Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876. Cushman, Edwin Charles, 1838- --Correspondence. Cushman, Emma Crow, 1840?- --Correspondence. Cushman, Mary Eliza, 1793-1866--Correspondence. -
Diverse Scholarship on Lincoln's Life, and His Death
Civil War Book Review Spring 2016 Article 2 LOOK AT LINCOLN: Diverse Scholarship on Lincoln's Life, and His Death Frank J. Williams Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr Recommended Citation Williams, Frank J. (2016) "LOOK AT LINCOLN: Diverse Scholarship on Lincoln's Life, and His Death," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 18 : Iss. 2 . DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.18.2.02 Available at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol18/iss2/2 Williams: LOOK AT LINCOLN: Diverse Scholarship on Lincoln's Life, and His D Feature Essay Spring 2016 Williams, Frank J. LOOK AT LINCOLN: Diverse Scholarship on Lincoln's Life, and His Death. A Close Look at America’s Most Infamous Assassin Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford Publisher: Oxford University Press Retail Price: $29.95 ISBN:9780195054125 Of the 16,000 books and pamphlets written about Abraham Lincoln since his assassination, over 2,000 of them relate to his death and the military trial and execution of the assassins. Along with Michael W. Kauffman’s American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (2004), Fortune’s Fool provides a comprehensive view of Booth. Clearly enigmatic, his dastardly deed shocked the country. He was well liked and occasionally lazy. But at heart, he was obsessed with the Confederacy and its search for independence. Alford describes in great breath and detail Booth’s trajectory in finally accepting the fact that the Confederacy was about to end in April 1865. He Published by LSU Digital Commons, 2016 1 Civil War Book Review, Vol. -
ACTORS (19Th Century)
Library of Little Masterpieces In Forty-four Volumes LITTLE MASTERS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY: ACTORS (19th Century) Edited by GEORGE ILES VOLUME XXXVI 1 Table of Contents PREFACE 5 JOSEPH JEFFERSON 6 HOW I CAME TO PLAY RIP VAN WINKLE 7 THE ART OF ACTING 10 PREPARATION AND INSPIRATION 10 SHOULD AN ACTOR "FEEL" HIS PART 11 JOSEPH JEFFERSON IN MONTREAL: PLAYWRIGHTS AND ACTORS 13 THE JEFFERSON FACE 13 EDWIN BOOTH 15 TO HIS DAUGHTER: BOOTH'S THEATER, NEW YORK, November 15, 1871. 16 TO HIS DAUGHTER: CHICAGO, March 2, 1873. 16 TO HIS DAUGHTER: April 23, 1876. 17 TO HIS DAUGHTER: CHICAGO, October 9, 1886 17 TO HIS DAUGHTER: NEW YORK, January 5, 1888, 17 TO HIS DAUGHTER: DETROIT, April 04, 1890. 18 TO HIS DAUGHTER: THE PLAYERS, NEW YORK, March 22, 1891. 18 TO MISS EMMA F. CARY SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, 1864. 19 TO MISS EMMA F. CARY [Three weeks after the assassination by his brother, John Wilkes Booth, of President Lincoln.] Saturday, May 6, 1865 20 TO MR. NAHUM CAPEN: [In response to an inquiry regarding his brother, John Wilkes Booth.] WINDSOR HOTEL, NEW YORK, July 28, 1881. 21 ADVICE TO A YOUNG ACTOR: [TO WALTER THOMAS] NEW YORK, August 28, 1889.21 CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN 23 AS A CHILD A MIMIC AND SINGER 24 FIRST VISITS TO THE THEATRE 24 PLAYS LADY MACBETH, HER FIRST PART 25 TO A YOUNG ACTRESS [PART OF A LETTER] 25 TO A YOUNG MOTHER [FROM A LETTER] 26 EARLY GRIEFS. ART HER ONLY SPOUSE [FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND] 27 FAREWELL TO NEW YORK 28 CLARA MORRIS 29 SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH 30 THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN 32 WHEN IN MY HUNT FOR A LEADING MAN FOR MR. -
Guide to the Brooklyn Playbills and Programs Collection, BCMS.0041 Finding Aid Prepared by Lisa Deboer, Lisa Castrogiovanni
Guide to the Brooklyn Playbills and Programs Collection, BCMS.0041 Finding aid prepared by Lisa DeBoer, Lisa Castrogiovanni and Lisa Studier and revised by Diana Bowers-Smith. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit September 04, 2019 Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Collection , 2006; revised 2008 and 2018. 10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY, 11238 718.230.2762 [email protected] Guide to the Brooklyn Playbills and Programs Collection, BCMS.0041 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 7 Historical Note...............................................................................................................................................8 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 8 Arrangement...................................................................................................................................................9 Collection Highlights.....................................................................................................................................9 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................10 Related Materials ..................................................................................................................................... -
The Richard L. Coe Early Scrapbook Finding
Richard L. Coe early scrapbook. Contents: [312] items, [307] pieces on first 74 pages of 155 p. volume. lccn: 2010414967 Call no.: PN2093.C65 1866 (Items with bold no. indicate separately cataloged titles) p. [Ii. Newspaper clippings from the Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser “The Rambler’s Note-Book” from Aug. 13, 1892, August 27, 1892, October 1, 1892 and Octoeber 8, 1892. Also clipping “Our Frank in Atlanta” correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch, n.d. (5 items. 8 pieces; portion of three clippings formerly folded, broken away) p. [2]. “The Rambler’s Note-Book” clippings from June 16, 1892, July 23, 1892, Nov. 19, and Nov. 23, 1892 (4 items, 5 pieces) p. [3]. “The Rambler’s Note-Book” clippings from Sept. 24, 1892, Sept 3, 1892, Oct. 29, 1892 and January 14, 1893 (4 items, 5 pieces) p. [4] “The Rambler’s Note-Book” clippings from Dec. 16, 1892, Dec. 15, 1892, Nov. 19, 1892, Dec. 12, 1892. 2 additional clippings:”Communicated” and “Communicated. A suggestion” undated (6 items, 7 pieces) p. [5]. The Rambler’s Note-Book clipping from Oct. 17, 1892. Additional clippings from January 23, 1891, Nov. 24, 1892, and December 22. 1891 and additional undated clippings: 5 notices. I clipping of verse and I clipping “The Return of Joy” by George Newell Lovejoy. (11 pieces) p. [6]. Clippings of verse: “The Old Road” by Oliver Dufour, poem by Mrs. A.L. Ruter Dufour, “The Bride’s Farewell”, “Silenus” by James B. Kenyon, “Renouncement” by Alice Mevnell, “Old time songs: “Annie Lisle”, “Do they miss me at home”, “Ossian’s serenade”. -
P-Winter 05.Indd
PSmithsonianR NationalOFIL Portrait Gallery ENews Winter 2005–6 From the DIRECTOR Charles Willson Peale, featured on our cover, is considered the father of Ameri- can museums, as well as one of the new Republic’s great portraitists. Because of this, and because the National Por- trait Gallery is home to the Peale Papers documentary history project, we have chosen the patriot artist’s great self-portrait to represent the unveiling of the renewed Gallery in July. But 2006 is not just a banner year for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. It also marks the 150th anni- versary of the very idea of a national portrait gallery. In 1856 the first National Portrait Gallery opened in London, dedicated to telling the sto- ries of Britain’s greatest historical figures through the presentation of their portraits. The founding portrait was, fittingly, of William Shakespeare. More than a century later, our founding portrait—also fittingly—was Gil- bert Stuart’s “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington (on long-term loan until we were able to purchase it some thirty years later). The English National Portrait Gallery set the standard for all future portrait galleries. Begun initially as their survey of noble lives alone, the English curators increasingly realized that they could not fully tell the story of those who had shaped their society without including a few notorious lives. The celebration of that magnificent collection will occur throughout 2006. We have hopes of bringing some of their greatest treasures, includ- ing Will Shakespeare himself, to Washington in the late spring of 2007 to acknowledge our debt to our mother institution. -
James Thomas Fields Papers: Finding Aid
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2z09n5tc No online items James Thomas Fields Papers: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Huntington Library staff and updated by Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2203 Fax: (626) 449-5720 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © 2000 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. James Thomas Fields Papers: mssFI 1 Finding Aid Descriptive Summary Title: James Thomas Fields Papers Dates: 1767-1914 Bulk dates: 1850-1914 Collection Number: mssFI Creator: Fields, James Thomas Extent: 5,438 items in 74 boxes Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department The Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2203 Fax: (626) 449-5720 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: The collections consist primarily of letters, as well as poems and manuscripts, from various American and British authors to American editor, publisher, and poet James Thomas Fields (1817-1881), mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic Monthly. The collection also includes letters to Fields's wife Annie Fields (1834-1915) concerning literary matters. Language of Material: The records are in English. Access The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please visit the Huntington's website: www.huntington.org. Processing Information The collection was processed and a summary report first created in 1976, and revised in 1983. -
Women Subjects, Women Artists
WOMEN SUBJECTS, WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE ART COLLECTION Commonwealth of Massachusetts State House Art Commission 2020 Paula Morse, Chair Susan Greendyke Lachevre, Curator ` WOMEN SUBJECTS, WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE ART COLLECTION INTRODUCTION While the Commonwealth’s art collection has been on display at the Massachusetts State House since its opening in 1798, it was not until the early 20th century that women were represented. The first tributes were either symbolic – the Civil War Army Nurses Memorial, added in 1914, - or allegorical, as seen in the personifications of nations in murals dating from 1927 - 1938. In fact, the first statue of a historical female figure, that of Anne Hutchinson, was not accepted by the leadership until 1922. Furthermore, the first portrait of a woman, that of Esther Andrews, added in 1939, was not solicited by the Commonwealth but was offered as a gift by her family. In 1863, Emma Stebbins was awarded the contract for a statue of Horace Mann, one of the earliest public monuments in Boston. Although there were certainly many professional women artists working in Boston during the decades that followed, they did not receive commissions until the turn of the century when $9,000 was appropriated for the programmatic expansion of the portrait collection to fill in the gaps in the display of governors under the Constitution. At that time, Boston was blessed with a talented pool of artists, both male and female, trained at the Boston Museum School and in Europe, from whom copies could be commissioned, since original likenesses of former governors were usually privately owned. -
Theater Playbills and Programs Collection, 1875-1972
Guide to the Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection, 1875-1972 Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 Contact: Brooklyn Collection Phone: 718.230.2762 Fax: 718.857.2245 Email: [email protected] www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org Processed by Lisa DeBoer, Lisa Castrogiovanni and Lisa Studier. Finding aid created in 2006. Revised and expanded in 2008. Copyright © 2006-2008 Brooklyn Public Library. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Creator: Various Title: Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection Date Span: 1875-1972 Abstract: The Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection consists of 800 playbills and programs for motion pictures, musical concerts, high school commencement exercises, lectures, photoplays, vaudeville, and burlesque, as well as the more traditional offerings such as plays and operas, all from Brooklyn theaters. Quantity: 2.25 linear feet Location: Brooklyn Collection Map Room, cabinet 11 Repository: Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection Reference Code: BC0071 Scope and Content Note The 800 items in the Brooklyn Theater Playbills and Programs Collection, which occupies 2.25 cubic feet, easily refute the stereotypes of Brooklyn as provincial and insular. From the late 1880s until the 1940s, the period covered by the bulk of these materials, the performing arts thrived in Brooklyn and were available to residents right at their doorsteps. At one point, there were over 200 theaters in Brooklyn. Frequented by the rich, the middle class and the working poor, they enjoyed mass popularity. With materials from 115 different theaters, the collection spans almost a century, from 1875 to 1972. The highest concentration is in the years 1890 to 1909, with approximately 450 items. -
Life and Military Career of Major-General William Tecumseh
u— 56 f OC- &</,*04/ SV**vC&' . yt^u A&a£ZeL£t*->*s £J%t££-4fcA*r£ P S>.\,"> 5iX > s '• v \ \ L IN THE EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA. r 75 )p(r LIFE AND MILITARY CAREER OF MAJQK-GEJSTEBAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. ftEV. P. C. HEADJjET, AETHOB OF " NAPOLEON," " JOSEPHINE." " WOXEIT OF THE EI31I 10 BOY," ETC., ETC. NEWYOEK: GEO. A. LEAVITT, PUBLISHER. 43 MERCER & 455 BROOME STREETS. 1868. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by WM. H. APPLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. HENKY STANLEY ALLEN", Esq., OF NEW TORE, THIS YOLUME IS INSCRIBED, WITH SINCERE RESPECT AND REGARD, BY THE AUTHOR. PEEFACE Although General Sherman's military career lias only reached its most interesting and brilliant period, grateful and admiring thousands mil wel- come an authentic outline of his history to the pres- ent time. The facts of his early life were obtained from those who knew him best. To Colonel Bowman, an appreciative friend of General Sherman, whose sketches of him in the XT. S. Service Magazine were graphic and reliable, to the Army and JVavy Journal and able corre- spondents, we are indebted for valuable material. The pen-portrait of the great commander, by Mr. Alvord, which has never before been published, will be read with special interest. 6 PREFACE. The volume is not offered to the public as a com plete biography, with all that might have been omit- ted carefully sifted from the essential statements, but the annals of a remarkable man, with incidents connected with his movements ; affording the youth and all others, a general view of the nation's hero, from infancy to the unrivalled distinction he now holds.