1493 images originally hung in the lobby of Macauley's Theatre on Walnut Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky (1873-1952). Primarily studio portraits of actors and actresses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these images document the...
A woman and two men pose on the set of "May Blossom, or the Fisherman's Daughter" which debuted at New York's Madison Square Theatre on April 12, 1884, and was staged at Macauley's Theatre in December 1884 and January 1886. Georgia Cayvan...
A woman in a short velvet dress with an emblem of a heart holds a fencing epee. She sits, with one leg crossed over the other, on a brocade divan, surrounded by pillows. A fencing helmet rests beside her. Judging by the title, she performed with...
A young child, Alice Hanlon, faces a strange-looking inanimate creature atop a base reading "Cant [sic] You Talk." This scene, from the Hanlons' "Fantasma, or Funny Frolics in Fairy Land," appears within a five-sided shape...
Actor and female impersonator Julian Eltinge was born William Dalton in Newtonville, Massachusetts on May 14, 1883 and died in New York City on March 7, 1941. Eltinge performed at Macauley's Theatre in George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris Minstrels...
Portraits; Theatrical posters; Actors; Actresses; Men; Women
Actor, playwright, and manager Nathan Salsbury (also known as Nate or N. Salsbury) was born in Freeport, Illinois on February 28, 1846 and died December 24, 1902 in Long Branch, New Jersey. In 1875 he organized the musical comedy troupe Salsbury's...
Actress Emily Rigl was born in the Netherlands and began performing in musicals and burlesques in the United States by the mid-1860s. American actor Charles Fisher was born in 1816 and died in 1891. In this full-length portrait, on the set of...
Autographed character portrait of Emilie Gardner wearing a hat and sleeveless dress. She performed in "The Burgomaster" at Macauley's Theatre in September 1902, as well as opposite Francis Wilson in "The Devil's Deputy" in...
Autographed character portrait of Flora Walsh tipping a wide-brimmed hat while wearing a polka-dot shirt with bow and vest. She appeared at Macauley's Theatre in "A Texas Steer" three times in two years: in February 1891, October 1892,...
Autographed character portrait of performer Maud Durbin (who was married to fellow actor Otis Skinner) wearing a blouse with puffy sleeves and a bonnet with ostrich plume. Maud Durbin performed at Macauley's Theatre in "A Country Sport"...
Autographed character portrait of performer Selena Fetter in left profile, wearing a bonnet and dress with bustle. Fetter was born in Kentucky circa 1860, and performed at Macauley's Theatre eight times between 1881 and 1895. She married fellow...
Autographed character portrait of performer, producer, and arranger Joseph Jefferson III as Rip Van Winkle, with long white hair and beard. Jefferson was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died April 23, 1905 in Palm Beach, Florida....
Autographed character portrait of stage and screen star Melbourne MacDowell wearing a laced-up jacket for a role in an Italian play. MacDowell was born in 1857 in South River, New Jersey. He married fellow performer Fanny Davenport (1850-1898) in...
Autographed character portrait of Vaudeville performer Harry Lauder wearing a Scottish beret and jacket with bow tie. Harry Lauder performed in "Ever Ne" at Macauley's Theatre on December 19, 1923. The performance listed at Macauley's on...
Autographed full-length character portrait of actress Jennie Reiffarth in costume for her role in the comic opera "The Merry War." She stands in front of a set backdrop featuring a tree, wearing a dress with a feminine version of an...
Autographed full-length character portrait of actress, producer, and director Amelia Bingham seated in a chair, holding a rose and wearing a long dress. Born Amelia Smilley on March 20, 1869, in Hicksville, Ohio, she married Lloyd Bingham, and died...
Autographed full-length character portrait of John Drew, Jr., of the famous Drew/Barrymore theatrical family (the son of John Drew Sr. and Louisa Lane Drew, and uncle of Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore), wearing a mustache and a tuxedo with white...
Autographed full-length character portrait of Otto Kruger and Norman Hackett in costumes featuring long capes over white tie and tails. Hackett's character also wears a pointed hat. They stand on either side of a potted plant on the stage set for...
Autographed full-length character portrait of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin costumed for the role of Sir Lucius O'Trigger in "The Rivals." He wears a black hat; long jacket; shirt with ruffled collar; short pants;...
Autographed full-length character portrait of performer and writer Clara Morris in costume for the role of Sister Genevieve in "The Two Orphans." She stands in a room with curtains and an end table, wearing a habit with a rosary at the...
