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19th century portrait albums of French actors and actresses

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: unidentifiedIdentifier: 2004MT-68
General Note:

Contents include: an album of 22 signed watercolor caricatures by Lhéritier (including comedians of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, mid 1850s); and an album containing 42 portraits of actors and actresses (many from the Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves, rue de Thionville).

Collection of picture postcards of musicians

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2008MT-48
Scope and Contents:

Contains postcards of chiefly German instrumentalists, and composers.

Evert Jansen Wendell and Raymond S. Wilkins collection of American sheet music by title

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2015T-52
Summary:

Sheet music published in America, chiefly from (but not limited to) the Raymond S. Wilkins and Evert Jansen Wendell collections; for voice and piano, some for piano solo.

Harvard Theatre Collection of French theatrical portraits

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 801
General Note:

Approximately 190 portraits and caricatures, most colored and in costume, including many from famous published series. Includes most of the 1870 publication, Le théâtre illustré.

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.

Houghton Library collection of Black American portrait photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3380
Scope and Contents:

Collection contains portrait photographs of Black Americans in the latter half of the 19th century. Mostly consists of tintypes, with a few albumen and salted paper prints. With few exceptions, people in the portraits are unidentified.

J. C. McCord photograph albums and papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2008MT-62
Summary:

Six albums of photographs (including portraits of McCord), clippings, reviews, programs, and telegrams, with early material evidently collected by his mother; with additional loose material.

See summary of scrapbook contents in curatorial file.

Kate Gray Kilgour collection of portraits and documents

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2000M-16
Summary:

1. Watercolor, pencil, and charcoal portrait of Kate Gray Kilgour by J. Prentiss Swann. 2. Pastel portrait of Bayard L. Kilgour by M.A. Werboff, 1942. 3. Signed testimonial of Kuindji Society, Petrograd, to an anonymous American benefactor with wash drawing by [?] Wladimiroff, 1923. 4. Signal form, cessation of hostilities, 11 November 1918. 5. Admiral Arleigh Burke, typed letter (signed) to Camilla (Mrs. Neil H.) McElroy, 30 January 1959.

Medals concerning musicians and composers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2008MT-49

Meinhart Maur papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-216
Summary:

Publicity materials relating to Maur's career, including clippings, 1918-1945; programs; and photographs circa 1936-1951.

Thomas P. Lacy collection of theater and ballet photographs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2160
Content Description: Photographs in different formats of various actors, dancers, and other figures in theater and ballet, few of whom are identified. Some photographic portraits are signed by the photographer or the subject. Collection includes a letter by John Gielgud.Photographers include Cecil Beaton, James Berry, Eileen Darby, De Meyer, E. O. Hoppé, and Frederick Melton.Subjects include George Balanchine, Greta Garbo, John Gielgud, Joseph Jefferson, Vivien Leigh, and Anna...

William B. Osgood Field collection of portraits of John Leech

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 93M-243
Summary:

Portraits are by George Frederick Watts, William Powell Frith, Henry Robert Robertson, E. W. Frost, and J. Marmocchi.

Matted and framed.

William N. Dearborn collection of autographs and portraits of literary figures

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 92M-21
Summary:

Contains portraits and autographs of American and European literary figures.