Color lithograph portrait of actress Marie Cahill wearing a fur-trimmed coat, wide-brimmed hat, and fur muff. Marie Cahill, born in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1870s, appeared at Macauley's Theatre four times between 1903 and 1909, in "Nancy...
Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
Portrait of right profile of mustachioed man wearing suit jacket and bow tie. He may be the actor William T. Clark (1863-1925), who performed at Macauley's Theatre with Marie Cahill in "Marrying Mary" in February 1908. Inscription on...
Full-length character portrait of actress Marie Cahill in an indoor scene (amid a chair, an end table with lamp, a painting in the background), wearing a long gown with embroidered overlay and long white gloves, and holding a folded fan in her...
Three-quarter length character portrait of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske leaning against a rock formation, in front of a backdrop of a body of water, wearing an ermine-trimmed robe and holding a black hat in her hand. Born...
Color lithograph of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske in the role of Mary of Magdala. She wears regal robes of gold with a crown, and sits on a throne holding a scepter. The background of the drawing is of blue tile with various...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Three-quarter length character portrait of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink in costume as Amneris in the Verdi opera "Aida." She wears her hair down, with a crown atop her head, and a regal dress. Born Ernestine (Tini) Rössler in Lieben...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Costumes; Posing
Full-length character portrait of Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink in costume as a maid (wearing a long dress with apron and scullery hat). Born Ernestine (Tini) Rössler in Lieben (near Prague), Austria on June 15, 1861, the contralto and...
Portrait of a young man with thin mustache and three-piece suit and tie. "A Parlor Match," starring Charles E. Evans and William Hoey, was staged at Macauley's Theatre on the date of this portrait's inscription by C. (possibly Charles)...
Photogravure of three-quarter length portrait of American actress and director Minnie Maddern Fiske seated in a chair, next to an end table and a bookcase, with her head resting on her right hand. She is wearing a long white dress, and her hair is...
Oil, house paint, crayon, and pencil on canvas. "The classical setting and celebration of intellectual probity evoked in the title's reference to Raphael's School of Athens (c.1510-12, Vatican, Rome) are offset by markings evoking bodily...
