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Album of cartes-de-visite of theater figures

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003MT-347
Scope and Contents:

Album of nine cartes-de-visite of late-19th and 20th-century persons involved in the theater.

Album of cartes de visite photographs of people with dwarfism

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2007MT-41
Summary:

With 5 sets of paper dolls of performers and other people with dwarfism and accompanying costumes. Volume in box 1; dolls in box 2.

Alekseĭ Remizov letters to Boris Ottokar Ungebaun with related papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Russ 143
Overview:

Alekseĭ Remizov correspondence, drawings, illustrations, calligraphy, and letters.

André Maurois letters and other papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 95M-26
Summary:

Includes: letters to Alexandre Rognedov; with letters from Mme. Maurois (Simone Marie de Caillavet Maurois); other letters; photographs; and clippings, chiefly concerning lectures by the Maurois in Madrid, arranged by Rognedov.

Arthur Greenwood Robinson papers on the Yung Wing Mission and YMCA work in North China

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: MS Am 2801
General Note:

Collection includes photographs, reports and other printed material, and correspondence.

AVACO slide set and script about the Nishikawa family and their Christian church

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 2000M-7
Summary:

Script titled "The Nishikawa's and Their Church", by Brian and Sally Kriska (typescript, 2 copies, one incomplete). Series of slides are preceded on sheets by identification notes made by donor. The included slide kit appears to have been produced with English and Japanese scripts.

Benjamin Grosbayne letters from others and photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 86M-96

Bernand photographs of productions of the Renault-Barrault Theatre Co.

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2009MT-17
Summary Note:

Photographs, most with captions, by the firm of Agence Presse Bernand.

Bill Penick photographs of a "womanless wedding"

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2144
Overview:

Photographs of a wedding performed by men and children in drag.

Bobb Parlan photographs of the Ridiculous Play-House's 'Cock Strong'

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2266
Overview:

Seventeen photographs depicting production of 'Cock Strong,' a musical production by the theatrical group Play-House of the Ridiculous.

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.

Cambridge Drama Festival records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2064
Overview:

The Cambridge Drama Festival records document the festival's operations during the 1950s-1960s, including materials relating to theatrical productions, business records, and construction of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center.

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.

Collection of papers by and about Ted Shawn

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Folder: 1Identifier: 2003MT-189

Collection of photographic portraits of African Americans

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3421
Overview:

70 photographic portraits of African Americans in black and white and color.

Collection relating to the life and death of Theodore Roosevelt

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 2001M-60
Summary:

Manuscript and printed ephemera relating to Theodore Roosevelt, including: 1911 cartoon of "a pretzel and the Colonel" by John L. De Mar; lyrics to an unsigned song ("Teddy"); photograph of Mrs. Alexander Lambert placing a wreath on Roosevelt's grave in 1935; and tributes by Josephus Daniels and Newton Diehl Baker.

Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made Against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, New York, 1937 : photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Russ 146
Overview:

Photographs of the of the Dewey Commission taken by Ruth Ageloff Poulos.

Correspondence with Rudolf Hirsch

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 2003M-44
Scope and Contents:

Manuscript drafts and typescript (carbon) letters, unsigned, from Demus; with typescript letters, signed, from Hirsch. With autograph manuscript poems in a gathering of 24 leaves, previously authored in 1940, 1943, and 1944 (according to dates); and five unidentified photographs, of which two are dated 1953.

Some correspondence concerns the so-called "Goll-Affaire" and the false plagarism charges brought by Claire Goll against Paul Celan.

Costas photographs for Stravinsky on Stage

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2008MT-95
Summary:

Photographs exhibited at Jordan Hall during a Stravinsky season.

Costas photographs of the New York City Ballet and others

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2009MT-59

Crosby family papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-211
Summary:

Includes a family bible published in 1766, recording the children of Sylvester Sage, 1793-1880, including daughter Huldah who married Jaazaniah Crosby, with an unsigned manuscript "Confession of Faith" in rear; a family photograph album of cartes-de-visite, many of them of the Crosby and Bridge families, undated; and a printed play inscribed "Crosby.".

David Drummond collection of periodicals and photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2005MT-76
Scope and Contents:

Includes the periodical Stage and others; letters and print purchased by the collector; and photographs of actors and stage scenes.



Dorothea Lynde Dix correspondence and other papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 69M-156
Summary:

Also includes 1 photograph, manuscript fragments and dried plant from the Holy Land.