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Title: Stark, Samuel. Theatre scrapbook collection.,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1950
Collection number: M0622
Collector:
Samuel Stark
Extent:
28.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: 19th century American and British stage material: photographs of 19th and
early 20th century American and British actors, Irish Theatre programs,
American silent film, and film and stage personalities.
Language:
English.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Sam Stark Scrapbook Collection. M0622. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Gift of Samuel Stark.
Collection started by Stark's mother and aunt. Stark's paternal grandmother
was the sister of Joseph Schurmann of Holland, a French impressario who
brought Bernhardt, Duse, and Patti to the U.S. The core collection came to
Stark on his mother's death in 1936, and he built on it through additional
gifts and purchases.
Authority on the history of the theatre, particularly American
theatre, and collector of theatre photographs and ephemera.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
19th century American and British stage material: photographs of 19th and
early 20th century American and British actors, Irish Theatre programs,
American silent film, and film and stage personalities.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Jefferson, Joseph, 1829-1905.
Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893.
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928.
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Shearer, Norma, 1900-
Power, Tyrone, 1914-
Lombard, Carole, 1908-1942.
Barthelmess, Richard, 1895-1963.
Cooper, Jackie, 1922-
Allister, Claude, 1891-1970.
Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934.
Georgi, Yvonne.
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968.
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973.
Greene, Patterson.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
Runyon, Damon, 1880-1946.
Allen, Viola.
Anglin, Margaret, 1876-1958.
Barrymore, John, 1882-1942.
Barrymore, John, 1878-1954.
Barrymore, Ethel, 1879-1959.
Benny, Jack, 1894-1974.
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.
Burke, Billy, 1885-1970.
Cagney, James, 1899-1986.
Castle, Irene, 1893-1969.
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
Cohan, George M., (George Michael), 1878-1942.
Davis, Bette, 1908-
Dressler, Marie, 1869-1934.
Epenscheid, Gertrude E., (Gertrude Elliot).
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939.
Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967.
Fiske, Minnie Madden, 1865-1932.
Frederick, Pauline, 1885-1938.
Gable, Clark, 1901-1960.
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993.
Held, Anna, 1877?-1918.
Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950.
Moore, Victor, 1876-1962.
Nazimova, Alla, 1879-1945.
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979.
Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922.
Starr, Frances.
Stewart, Anita, 1895-1961.
Swanson, Gloria.
Talmadge, Constance, 1898-1973.
Talmadge, Norma, 1897-1957.
Tanguay, Eva, 1878-1947.
Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926.
West, Mae.
Ade, George, 1866-1944.
Armstrong, Paul, 1869-1915.
Ballard, Frederick, 1884-1957.
Barry, Tom, 1884-1931.
Boucicault, Dion, 1820-1890.
Broadhurst, George H., 1866-1945.
Browne, Porter Emerson, 1879-1934.
Craven, Frank, 1875-1945.
Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958.
Davis, Owen, 1874-1956.
DeMille, William C.,q(William Churchill), 1878-1955.
Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909.
Forbes, James, 1871-1938.
Gates, Eleanor, 1875-1951.
Gillette, William, 1853-1937.
Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928.
Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908.
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956.
Kenyon, Charles, 1880-1961.
Kester, Paul, 1870-1933.
Klein, Charles, 1867-1915.
Knoblauch, Edward, 1874-1945.
MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956.
Manners, J. Hartley.
Mayo, Margaret, 1882-1951.
Megrue, Roi Cooper, 1883-1927.
Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn, 1862-1935.
Montgomery, James, 1882-1966.
Moody, William Vaughn, 1869-1910.
Moore, Carlyle, 1909-1977.
Moore, Martha, 1865-1925.
Nirdlinger, Charles Frederic.
Parker, Lottie Blair.
Paulton, Harry, 1842-1917.
Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922.
Peple, Edward, 1869-1924.
Presbrey, Eugene W., (Eugene Wiley), 1853-1931.
Rosenfeld, Sydney, 1855-1931.
Royle, Edwin Milton, 1862-1942.
Sayre, Theodore Burt.
Scarborough, George Adolphus, 1859-1900.
Selwyn, Edgar, 1875-1944.
Shipman, Louis Evan, 1869-1933.
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
Thomas, A. E., (Albert Ellsworth), 1872-1947.
Thomas, Augustus, 1857-1934.
Tully, Richard Walton, 1877-1945.
Walter, Eugene, 1874-1941.
Bates, Blanche.
Coleman, Ronald.
Friganza, Trixie.
Gray, Gilda.
Mannering, Mary.
May, Edna.
Ring, Blanche.
Templeton, Fay.
Fields, Weber C.
Anspacker, Louis.
Barry, Phillip.
Bartholomae, Philip.
Buchanan, Thompson.
Caldwell, Anne.
Carpenter, Edward Childs.
Clarke, Joseph I. C.
Davis, Richard H.
Dodd, Lee Wilson.
Ellis, Edith.
Goodman, Jules E.
Hutton, Frederick.
Hazelton, George.
Hoyt, Charles.
Howard, Sidney.
Hurlburt, William.
Kennedy, Charles R.
Long, John L.
McClellan, C. S. M.
Middleton, George.
Patterson, Joseph.
Paulson, Edward.
Reid, James.
Ryley, M. C.
Sheldon, Edward.
Sutherland, Evelyn.
Thompson, Denham.
Beiller, Bayard.
Williams, Jessie.
Winter, William.
Young, Rida Johnson.
Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland)
Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
Pasadena Playhouse (Pasadena, Calif.)
Moscow Art Theatre.
Teck Theatre (Buffalo, NY)
Harry Lofgren Minstrel Show.