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...
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 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...
Autographed full-length character portrait of performer Helen Western in costume, possibly for a role in "The French Spy." She wears a hat, tall sandals, and tattered tunic, cinched at the waist. Her long hair is worn down and she has a...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Opera singers; Women; Posing
Autographed full-length character portrait of Trixie Rallston posing with right hand in the air, as if gesturing while singing. She wears a printed dress, hat with trailing ribbon, and white gloves. Her annotation indicates that she performed in...
Autographed full-length character portrait of, from left, Norman Hackett (actor and manager, born September 7, 1874, in Arnherstbury, Ontario, Canada); Otto Kruger (actor, born September 6, 1885 in Toledo, Ohio, and died September 6, 1974 in...
Autographed full-length portrait of young woman, wearing long-sleeve, belted dark dress with white ruffled collar and dark hat with flowers around brim. She carries a package, a small dog, and a suitcase. Although the handwritten annotation reads...
Autographed portrait of young woman seated on floor near seat holding a suitcase amid brown paper and small items. She wears long-sleeve, belted dark dress with white ruffled collar and dark hat with flowers around brim. Although the handwritten...
Autographed three-quarter length seated portrait of actress Eleanor Barry wearing her hair in a bun, a pearl necklace, a long gown with sparkly embroidered patterns, and a large floral corsage. The Stuart Robson Company, of which Eleanor Barry was...
Character portrait of actor Ernest Stallard in costume for the role of "Mark Topley" in "Tom Pinch" (a play based on Charles Dickens' "Martin Chuzzelwit"), which was performed at Macauley's Theatre on March 29, 1901....
Character portrait of actor James O'Neill in costume for the role of Pierre Frochard in "The Two Orphans," which he performed at Macauley's Theatre in November 1904. He wears a white powdered wig with ponytail and a beribboned brocade...
Character portrait of actress Blanche Roosevelt in the role of Josephine, from the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore." She wears an elasticized cap. Annotation on print, lower center: Blanche Rosewell, Blanche Roosevelt....
Character portrait of actress Marcia Van Dresser in the role of Francesca in "Francesca da Rimini" (ca. 1901), which she performed opposite Otis Skinner at Macauley's Theatre in November 1901. She wears a white blouse, and flowers in her...
Character portrait of actress Mary Servoss in costume for her role in "The Master of the House," which does not appear to have been performed at Macauley's Theatre. She is seated on an ornate wooden chair facing her right, wearing a...
Character portrait of Adelaide Cherie looking to her right, wearing a costume possibly of a Bavarian maiden, featuring a brimless hat with elastic closure, her hair in a single braid, and a dress with laced bodice and floral trim. Annotation on...
Character portrait of Bernard "Barney" Macauley wearing a fur hat, jacket, vest, and bow tie. Barney Macauley founded Macauley's Theatre in 1873, although his younger brother John T. Macauley became the theatre's proprietor in 1879....
Character portrait of Fernando Michelena in three-quarter profile, wearing a mustache and velvet tunic. He is likely in costume for the title role in the opera "Ernani," which he performed with the Emma Abbott Grand English Opera Company...
Character portrait of Gertrude Coghlan wearing a fascinator and sleeveless evening gown with black gloves for the role of Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." Born circa 1879 in Hertfordshire, England, she married...
Character portrait of Julia Marlowe wearing a regal gown. Julia Marlowe was a child actress born Sarah Frances Frost on August 17, 1865 in England. She spent her late childhood in the United States, and married actor Robert Taber in 1894. With her...
Character portrait of left profile of performer Vernona Jarbeau wearing her hair in a bun, with a hat with black lace veil perched atop it. Jarbeau appeared at Macauley's Theatre five times: in "Evangeline" and "Conrad, the...
