Studio portraits of entertainers created by Thomas Houseworth & Co. that comprise a portion of the Houseworth's Celebrities, ca. 1870-1880. Images include female burlesque actresses and dancers Viola Clifton, Lizzie McCall, Lulu Mortimer, and Mabel Santley, while other portraits depict actress Noko McCabe; actress and singer Emelie Melville; and acrobat and circus entrepreneur Edward W. Orrin.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts. and Portraits of McCabe, Melville, Orrin, were a gift of Dr. Leonard R. Kauffman, 2004. Portraits of Clifton, McCall, Mortimer, and Santley: source unknown.
Subject (Name):
Clifton, Viola, Houseworth, Thomas,--1829-1915, McCall, Lizzie, Melville, Emelie, Mortimer, Lulu, Orrin, Edward W, Santley, Mabel, and Thomas Houseworth & Co
Subject (Topic):
Acrobats--Portraits, Actresses--Portraits, Burlesque (Theater)--Portraits, Dancers--Portraits, Entertainers--Portraits, and Singers--Portraits
Photograph album probably compiled by Samuel Tepakeyah or his wife, Angeline Petty Tepakeyah, circa 1890-1915, which contains 59 photographs, including 29 cabinet photographs, 15 tintypes, and 8 photographic postcards. The photographs include studio portraits of American Indians, predominantly Ottawa as well as students at the United States Indian School, and others made by photographers in northern Michigan and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Ottawa men photographed in Petoskey, Michigan, include James Green, William Mitchell, and an infant, Joseph Jackson. The album also includes a studio portrait of Richard Henry Pratt, founder and superintendent of the United States Indian School, circa 1895, Photographers in northern Michigan include T. F. Nix in Boyne City; Edward E. Bowman and G. W. Priest in Charlevoix; H. Krueger in Grand Rapids; E. H. Koing in Mancelona; L. S. Morey in Mount Pleasant; Hoyt Steven Spencer in Northport; and The Park Gallery, P.A. Fisher, and H. M. Wilcox in Petoskey, Identified photographers in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, include J. N. Choate and Edgar Kurtz Gaugler, and The album includes a handbill for the Hines-Kimball Troupe of acrobats with a group portrait of its members for shows in 1904-1906
Description:
Samuel E. Tepakeyah (also known as Enore Ta-pe-ke-yah) (1875-1938) was an Ottawa, probably a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. He may have attended the United States Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Tepakeyah lived in Hayes, Charlevoix County, Michigan, and worked as a laborer in a limekiln and chopping wood. In September 1912, he married Angeline Petty (1879-1943) and they had five children., Inscriptions in English and album cover in Polish., Title devised by cataloger., Cover of the photograph album includes the coat of arms for Poland, January Uprising (1863), with the motto, Boże Zbaw Polskę, as well as a depiction of Saint Mary, Blessed Virgin., Photograph album measures 28.5 x 23.5 cm., and Ownership inscriptions by Tepakeyah on the versos of many prints.
Subject (Geographic):
Poland
Subject (Name):
Bowman, Edward E., 1868-, Choate, J. N. 1848-1902. (John N.),, Fisher, P. A. 1858-1932. (Perry A.),, Gaugler, Edgar Kurtz, 1861-1947., Krueger, H. 1856-1918. (Herman Carl August),, Lackey, Sanford Fillmore, 1858-1904., Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Morey, L. S. 1858-1945. (Loren Searle),, Nix, T. F. 1848-1920. (Theodore F.),, Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924, Priest, G. W. 1863- (George W.),, Spencer, Hoyt Steven, 1819-1914., Tepakeyah, Angeline Petty, 1878-1943., Tepakeyah, Samuel E., 1875-1938., Wilcox, H. M. 1846-1926. (Horace M.),, Hines-Kimball Troupe, Park Gallery (Petoskey, Mich.), and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Ottawa Indians, and History
Nelson Slater and Henrietta Slater McIntire papers
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Henrietta Slater McIntire (daughter of Nelson and Emily Slater) was born in California in 1851. She graduated from the State Normal School in San Francisco in 1868, and the San Francisco high school in 1872. She was a teacher until she married John A. McI
Nelson Slater and Henrietta Slater McIntire papers
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Henrietta Slater McIntire (daughter of Nelson and Emily Slater) was born in California in 1851. She graduated from the State Normal School in San Francisco in 1868, and the San Francisco high school in 1872. She was a teacher until she married John A. McI
Photographs of Siegfried Sassoon, his family, and his associates
Container / Volume:
Folder 1
Image Count:
2
Description:
In ink on recto: From Auntie Rachel., In ink on verso: 3940 a, In pencil on verso: [Rachel Sassoon Beer (1858-1927)., and Photographer's advertisement printed on verso.
In ink on verso below newspaper clipping: 1891., In pencil on verso: Archibald Campbell Niven. / Taken Dec. 1887. / Born Apr. 28 1871 Dec 1887 / April 28, 1871., Newspaper clippin affixed to verso at bottom., and Photographer's imprint on recto and verso.
Subject (Name):
Niven, Archibald C. (Archibald Campbell), 1803-1882
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849. The journal is accompanied by three photographs of Sarah Davis.
Nelson Slater and Henrietta Slater McIntire papers
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Henrietta Slater McIntire (daughter of Nelson and Emily Slater) was born in California in 1851. She married John A. McIntire of the Sacramento grocery firm of Booth and Company.