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Boyd Putnam papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2009MT-40
Summary:

Includes cabinet photographs, travel diary 1898, clippings scrapbook 1889-1908, and miscellaneous papers.

Cabinet photograph and cartes de visite of "Circassian beauties"

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2079
Overview:

Late 19th-century photographs of "Circassian beauties".

Cabinet photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2084
Overview:

Photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck.

Carlene Samoiloff papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2006MT-230
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.

Harvard Theatre Collection photograph collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: HTC 2
Overview:

Collection created by the Harvard Theatre Collection of purchased or given photographs.

Holland family papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1984
Overview:

Papers of the Holland family of English American stage and film actors.

Leonard Finger collection of images of female impersonators

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003MT-84
Summary:

30 postcards and 12 cabinet photographs. 11 are Pach Brothers cabinet cards, all from the same run.

Mary Anne Schwalbe collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-224
Summary: Consists of 10 letters from actress Laura Keene to William I. Paulding, 1871-1872 and undated; miscellaneous autograph letters by William Black (2 undated letters), Philip Doddridge (1748), B. L. Farjeon (1882), Bill Nye (1886), William Gifford Palgrave (1867), Anthony Trollope (1870), and "Volney" (undated); 8 pages of an unsigned manuscript short story titled "The Didactic Village"; a rare pamphlet by the American Tract Society titled The Burmese Boy, undated; cabinet photographs of Edwin...

Photographic sample cards of actresses and actors by Mora

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2019
Overview:

Sheets of sample cabinet photographs of 19th century actors and actresses.

Wulkan family theatrical cabinet cards

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1773
Overview:

Theatrical cabinet card photographs collected by the Wulkan family.