Summary
Consists of 64 photographs of Russian theater figures, many of them with signed autograph inscriptions, including Konstantin Stanislavsky, 1922-1923; cabinet photographs and cartes-de-visite, mostly of European actors, circa 1890; research material on the Moscow Art Theater, 1923-1973, including programs, clippings, a 1968 audiotape of a lecture by Samoiloff, and lecture notes from 1971-1973; and glass slides relating to Russian theater and the Federal Art Project.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within circa 1890-1973
Language of Materials
In English and Russian.
Restrictions on Access
The bulk of this collection is shelved offsite. Retrieval requires advance notice. Check with Houghton Public Services staff. Boxes 3 and 4 (glass-plate negatives) are housed onsite. Collection is open for research.
Collection is open for research.
Extent
3 linear feet (4 boxes)Biographical / Historical
Carlene Bowles Murphy, a native of Massachusetts, married Alexander Samoiloff. She resided in Winchester, Mass. and was a longtime patron of theater.
Arrangement
Unprocessed.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Processing Information
Minimal description derived from existing records and converted to online finding aid, Betts Coup, 2020.
- Title
- Samoiloff, Carlene, 1900-1985. Carlene Samoiloff papers, circa 1890-1973 (2006MT-230): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2018 November 16
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou04313
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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