Theater, Motion Picture and Entertainment photograph collection, approximately 1880-1975

From attached material: Licia Albanese made her American debut on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in 1940, in the role of Madama Butterfly. In succeeding seasons she has proved her top ranking qualities as lyric soprano in La Traviata, as Marguerite in Faust, Mimi in La Boheme, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, etc. Prior to her arrival in America, Miss Albanese sang leading roles at La Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London.

Autographed on photo.

Carl Paige Wood was a director of the University of Washington School of Music.

Written on photo: To Dr. Carl Paige Wood with kind regards Béla Bartók Ditta Pástory Bartók.

Printed on verso: Orpheum Circuit. Martin Beck, General Manager.

Written on verso: Gift of Mrs. M.G. Burglehaus, (granddaughter presumably), May 1942.

Written on verso: Jan. 11 - 1945 - Moore Theater.

Written on verso: Pantages theatre October 19, 1910. Mrs. Charles Kuhn, Blanche and Ina [ill.] Will and wife.

Advertisement for the film reads: With Gloria as a nurse, war would lose many of its hardships.

Stamped on verso: John Carter. Tenor. Metropolitan Opera Association.

Printed on verso: Julie Carter, brunette beauty, who will soon be seen in RKO-Radio's "Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men," starring Charles Farrell and Wynne Gibson.

Printed on verso: Enrico Caruso (right) was the first big-name celebrity in the music world to sign with the Victor Talking Machine Company as a recording artist. Outstanding performances of great artists of the past were recently re-issued by RCA Victor in a "Treasury of Immortal Performances" series.

Written on photo: For the [illeg.] and Md'm Hazel [illeg.] Kinsella with my best wishes. Carlos Chavez.

Autographed on photo.

Printed on verso: Knows his onions --- Andy Clyde, noted player of character roles in films, as he appears in RKO-Radio's "Village Tale."

Autographed on photo.

Printed on verso: S. Hurok presents Mary Costa, soprano. Hurok Attractions, New York.

Typed publicity notes on verso.

Stamped on verso: Antal Dorati. Conductor, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Autographed on front: To "Squire [ill.] May I come back and [ill.] all that's [ill.] Yours, Bob Edeson.

Written on verso: I like this head best.

Autographed on photo.

Written on verso: From Burke collection.

Written on photo: To Mrs. Burke, with admiration & [illeg.] good wishes, Cecil Fanning. Sept. 1, 1915.

Autographed on photo.

Printed on photo: MCA Artists Ltd, Music Corporation of America.

Printed on front: National Concert and Artists Corporation, New York.

Autographed on photo: To the Music Dept. With warmest regards.

Written on front: Dear "Mr. T" From Freddie Boy.

Caption on verso: La Bohème with Lillian Gish, Directed by King Vidor, A metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

Written on verso: the merry widow of the moore.

Authographed on photo.

Written on photo: To "Babette" Sincerely Walter Hampden as Manson in The Servant in the House 1922.

Caption on verso: Hatton plays the character of Mendel in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Straight is the Way" directed by Paul Sloane.

Caption on verso: Brilliant young English leading man, whose work with Lunt and Fontanne in the stage play, "Point Valaine", won him his first talking picture in "The Flame Within", a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, written and directed by Edmund Goulding.

Caption on verso: In Sir James M.Barrie's comedy "What Every Woman Knows" at the Metropolitan Theatre for 8 days starting Nov. 26.

Caption on verso: Leading Soprano Metropolitan Opera Co.

Written on verso: Pianist with Seattle Symphony October 2, 4, 8, 1944.

Written on verso: Conductor- Cincinnati Orchestra.

Caption on verso: "The Firefly is brought to the screen by M-G-M.

Printed on front: Joseph M. Schenck presents Buster Keaton in The General, United Artists Picture.

Stamped on verso: Samuel Goldwyn presents Madge Kennedy in "Dollars and Sense" by Octavus Roy Cohen, Directed by Harry Beaumont.

Stamped on verso: Pretty Evelyn Keyes, the Atlanta blonde under contract to Cecil B. Demille and featured by him with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea in "Union Pacific".

Autographed on photo: To my dear Prof. Wood with gratitude for his friendship and happiest recollections of my summer at the University. New York City.

Printed on verso: Metropolitan Opera

Attached to photo: Photo News from Lester Gottlieb Bureau of Industrial Service, Lawrence will relate her eartime experiences on "We the People." Sunday, Dec. 17 at 10:30pm over CBS. This wil lbe her first radio appearance since her arrival in this country.

Autographed on front: For Garrett Clark Cordially yours.

Autographed on front.

Autographed on front.

Printed on verso: as Philo Vance and the dachshund who is his constant companion in "The Garden Murder Case", produced by Lucien Hubbard and Ned Marin, directed by Edwin L. Marin and also featuring Virginia Bruce for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Inscribed on photo: To "My Foster Brother" [illeg.] with the very best. Martignan.

Autographed on front: to the music department and all its memories, Betty Martin.

Autographed on front: University of Washington school of music from Daniel Gregory mason, 1950.

Written on verso: Dr. William Mason, Son of Lowell Mason, One of America's first great concert pianists, Courtesy of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason

Printed on verso" Anthony (Billy Mauch) in Anthony Adverse.

Printed on verso: Exposition. 5, Rue Royale Paris

Printed on verso: James Melton leading tenor Metropolitan Opera Assn.

Harry Reed was an organist and musical director of the radio station KJR in Seattle. The Melodears frequently played at the Showbox in Seattle, Washington.

Inscribed on photo: To Carl Paige Wood - in remembrance of the Summersession 1944, and in sincere friendship - Alfred Mirovitch. Sept. 1944. Seattle.

Carl Paige Wood was director of the University of Washington School of Music.

Printed on verso: Dimitri Mitropoulos musical director, N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony

Written on verso: Madame Helena Modjeska in "Macbeth & Mary Stuart" at Yucina Opera House, Jan. 1 and 2.

Autographed on photo: To Carl Paige Wood with my sincere admiration, February 1943.

Printed on verso: Highlighting the whirlwind romance on a tropic isle are spectacular dances and underwater ballet in "On an Island With You". Heading the cast are Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse and Xavier Cugat. Richard Thorpe directed, Joes Pasternak producing.

Printed on verso: as "Pa Bence" in "Kempy", directed by E. Mason Hopper for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Autographed on front.

Written on verso: photo, property of Hazel G. [ill.], 2721 "R", Lincoln, Nebraska

Printed on verso: Paramount player in "John Meade's Woman," wears this romantic wedding dress designed by Edith Head.

Printed on verso: recently declared "America's daughter," enjoys several free hours from studio duties and basks in the sunshine which filters through her Hollywood garden. Her current role is that of the daughter in Paramount's production Make way for Tomorrow with Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi.

Printed on front: Paramount pictures Inc. Permission granted for Newspaper and Magazine reproductions.

Autographed on front: To Music Dept. U of W with pleasant memories of our Anderson Hall concerts, Ellen Repp, January 1939.

Autographed on front: To miss [ill.] with my affectionate regards.

Written on verso: From the Burke Collection

Printed on verso: Photo reproduced exclusively for the Orpheum circuit, Martin Beck-General Manager.

Printed on verso: Paramount's Easter present to the country will be Shirley Ross in "Waikiki Wedding" along with Bing Crosby, Bob Burns and Martha Raye. So Shirley picks up a couple of bunnies to get the spirit of the occasion.

Autographed on front: To Hugo Aide from Lillian Russell with good luck.

Printed on verso: Exposition. 5, Rue Royale Paris

Printed on verso: To the music editor or to the woman's page editor. The glamorous soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, poses in a dress and veil inspired by the fashions of her native Brazil.

Printed on verso: [The impresario Sol] Hurok presents Trudi Schoop and her comic ballet The Charlie Chaplin of the Dance.

Autographed on front: For my friends at the University of Washington Best Wishes, New York '58.

Written on verso: John R. Scott from the original painting. To James Brown Esq. with compliments of Aug. B. Luge. N.Y. Aug. 22. 1861.

Written on verso: Frank Sinatra and daughter in the dressing room during the filming of The Kissing Bandit.

Photo glued to cardboard backing, with quote from the play written below. Probably from mock-up for newspaper.

Printed on verso: Eight Saxones.

Written on verso: Not Mae [ill.], but Nau Sprague about 25 years ago, in "Jack Straw".

Printed on verso: Exposition Universelle 1889, Medaille D'or.

Printed on verso: Sutherland Family of Seven Sisters, Lockport N.Y., H. Bailey, Manager. Sarah Sutherland, Victoria ", Isabella ", Grace ", Naomi ", Dora ", Mary ".

The seven Sutherland sisters were famous for their long wavy hair, totalling 37 feet between them. They toured America and debuted on Broadway as a musical act, then joined Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth. They became rich through the sales of their father's patented Sutherland Hair Tonic.

Written on verso: Colonial Theatre, Seattle.

Printed on verso: Star in Paramount Pictures.

Printed on verso: Quilted satin in the palest flesh color makes a ravishing evening gown for Gladys Swarthout, Paramount star in "Ambush," with Lloyd Nolan.

Gift of Barrett H. Clark, 1941

Autographed on photo: To Mr. Barrett H. Clark with all the affection of your friend Pierrot. C. Severin, March 1922.

Photo glued to cardboard backing, with quote from the play written below. Probably from mock-up for newspaper.

Printed on verso: Miss Tobin wears this costume in "Behold, We Live," [movie adaptation called If I Were Free] starring Irene Dunne for RKO Radio studios.

Autographed on front: To my dear friends Judge and Mrs. Burke in memory of the charming [ill.] in Seattle.

Written on verso: Beerbohm Tree as "Marc Antony" From me with Mr. Tree's compliments. October 4th, 1904.

Autographed on photo.

Autographed on front: To the American Music Center [ill.].

Printed on front: 20th Century Pictures, Inc.- Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Zanuck present Wallace Berry, George Raft, Jackie Cooper in The Bowery.

The subject, Zora, may have been the photograhper's wife.

Caption on photo: Nov. 14th Orpheum Theatre

Written on verso: Double Harpsichord

Count Primo and Lavinia Warren were married in 1885 and operated a famous roadside stand in Middleborough, Massachusetts that performed various plays.

Printed on verso: Josef Roismann, 1st Violin; Alexander Schneider, 2nd Violin; Boris Kroyt, Viola; Mischa Schneider, violoncello showing the famous Stradivari instruments at the Library of Congress in Washington, where the Quartet plays them.

The names of the members are printed on the photo: Frank Mittler, Adam Garner, Edward Edson, Glauco D'Atilli, Originated and Produced by Edwin Fadiman.

The names of the group members are on accompanying materials: Cellist Kara Hunnicitt, Mary Jacobson, Henrietta Mastenbrook, Ingrid Fredrickson, J. Anne Cristen, Bonny Blanchard, Eileen Swanson, Greg Savage, Linda Melstad, Deedee Cook, Joy Wood, Scott Weaver, Sandra Schwartz, Dave Burgess, Page Smith, Betty Agent.

Photographers signature visible on front.

Printed on photo: Gladis and Gloria Gardner, Spike Jones' Musical Depreciation Revue

Presented by S. Hurok.

Autographed on photo.

Signed on photo: Just Pat. 2/29/32.

Written on verso: Colonial Theatre, Seattle.

Written on verso: Colonial Theatre, Seattle.

Written on verso: Colonial Theatre, Seattle.

Written on verso: Colonial Theatre, Seattle.

Marian Lewis, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.1.

Printed on verso: 838 Market St., Opp. Fourth, San Francisco. Medal Awarded over all competitors for the best photographs at the State Fair 1879. Medal awarded over all competitors for the best photographs at the Mechanics' Institute Fair 1880. Jones, Robinson & Co., Proprietors.

Written on verso: Judie

Printed on verso: 21, Boul. Montmartre, 16 Medailles.

Written on verso: Sweetest regards from Kathryn, Feby Fifteenth-Ninety six.

Printed on verso: Portland Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.

Printed on verso: Sarah Bullitt puts management up against the wall when 100,000 angry woman go on strike in San Francisco and shut down the financial capital of the West Coast in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's play on Woman's Liberation, the Independent Female, or a Man Has His Pride to be staged at Hub Ballroom on April 17, 8pm.

Printed on verso: Joel Bentham (Harry Davenport, right) exhibits the old musket that he carried in the Civil War, and tells tall tales about his army service to his friend, Benjie Collins (Clem Bevans).

Stamp for Educational Pictures on front.

Printed on front: Associated Exhibitors presents Harold Lloyd in Among Those Present.

Printed on front: With Sir Guy Standing, Rosalind Keith, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell, Douglas Blackley, Benny Baker, Richard Brodus and Louise Beavers. Directed by Alexander Hall. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: Jack Benny in Artists and Models with Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick, Ben Blue, Judy Canova, The Yacht Club Boys, Louis Armstrong. Specialties by Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra, Connie Boswell and Martha Raye. Directed by Raoul Walsh. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on verso: Gwen Kenyon, who portrays "Miss America," prepares to enter the 52 foot bathtub designed by Director Mitchell Leisen. The cutie removing her slippers is the Claire James, who finished second in the 1938 "Miss America" contest at Atlantic City, N.J.

Printed on verso: The Barrier by Rex Beach with Norman Kerry, Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall. Directed by George Hill. A Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer Picture.

Printed on front: One of Paramount's 15th Birthday Group.

Printed on front: Maurice Chevalier with Helen Twelvetrees and Edward Everett Horton.

Printed on front: With Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Jean Hersholt, Mary Brian, Louise Dresser, Andy Devine. A Charles R. Rogers Production. Directed by Ralph Murphy. A Paramount Picture.

This film has an alternate title of Song of the Eagle.

Printed on front: An RKO Radio Picture.

Printed on verso: Benny Goodman, swingmaster, brings his swing band to the screen. It is the first picture for Goodman who founded his dance band about two years ago.

Printed on front: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye and Dorothy Lamour with Lynne Overman, Shirley Ross, Bob Hope, Ben Blue, Leif Erikson. Specialties by Mme. Kirsten Flagstad, Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra. Copyright 1937, Paramount Pictures Inc.

Printed on verso: Edward Everett Horton, Ann Harding and Director E.H. Griffith enjoy a moment's conversation between scenes set when the company journeyed to mile-high Lake Arrowhead to shoot scenes on location. Robert Montgomery is co-starred with Miss Harding in the picture and Irving Thalberg produces.

Printed on verso: Sophie Tucker makes her debut. Metro-Goldwyn -Mayer's latest musical extravaganza co-stars Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor, with George Murphy, Buddy Ebson, Binnie Barnes, Judy Garland, Raymond Walburn, Billy Gilbert and Barnett Parker. Roy Del Ruth directs, and Jack Cummings produces.

Printed on front: A scene from the 20th Century Fox Production.

Printed on photo: A Hugh Ford Production. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: United Artists Picture.

Printed on verso: Samuel Goldwyn presents Will Rogers in Cupid- The Cowpuncher. Adapted from the story "Alec Llyod, Cowpuncher" by Eleanor Gates. Directed by Clarence Badger. Released by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.

Printed on verso: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Rafaela Ottiano and Grace Ford in the weird homecoming scene in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Devil Doll, directed by Tod Browning.

Printed on front: With Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Kent Taylor, Sir Guy Standing and Anne Revere. Directed by Charles Vidor. Paramount Picture.

Printed on verso: Mary Morris as Victoria Van Brett.

Printed on front: A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture.

Printed on front: With Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Llyod Nolan, Walter Catlett and Herman Bing. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. An Emanuel Cohen Production. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper with Adolphe Menjou and Mary Philips. A Frank Borzage Production. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on verso: A stranger breaks up the dance being executed by Lillian Belton (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Jack Kerry (Louis Hayward) in a scene of Edmund Goulding's production of The Flame Within for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ann Harding and Herbert Marshall are co-starred in the picture.

Printed on verso: Approved Advertising Advisory Council J.J. McCarthy, April 12, 1935, Hollywood.

Printed on front: Carl Laemmle presents Hoot Gibson in The Flaming Frontier, A Universal Gibson Production.

Printed on front: Mack Sennett comedies. Educational Pictures.

Printed on front: An RKO Radio Picture.

Printed on front: Released by Producers Distributing Corporation.

Printed on verso: Rosemary Lane and Eddie Albert rehearse an outdoor scene for Warner Bros. while technicians adjust the microphone above their heads to catch their conversation.

Printed on front: United Artists Picture.

Printed on front: With Karen Morley, Robert Baldwin, Eduardo Cianelli, Katherine Alexander and Milli Monti. Directed by Robert Vignola. An Emanuel Cohen Production. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: With Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Jack Whiting and Clarence Kolb. Directed by Elliot Nugent. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: An RKO Radio Picture.

Printed on verso: Ralph Forbes and Helen Chandler receive Billie Burke's maternal blessing in the scene from the RKO Radio Picture, Great Desire.

Printed on front: Elissa Landi, Adolphe Menjou, David Manners, Alan Mowbray and Lynne Overman. A Charles R. Rogers Production. Directed by Ralph Murphy. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: Mack Sennett Comedies. Educational Pictures.

A Paramount Artcraft Picture.

Printed on front: A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Picture.

Printed on front: With Richard Arlen, Judith Allen, William Frawley, Barton MacLane, Sir Guy Standing. Directed by Gorver Jones and Wm. Slavens McNutt. A Paramount Picture.

Originally had the working title of Cap'n Jericho.

Printed on front: 20th Century Fox Presents An Associates and Aldrich Company Production starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten. Co- starring Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, William Campbell. Produced and directed by Robert Aldrich. Screenplay by Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller. From a story by Henry Farrell.

Printed on front: With Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Stuart Erwin, W.C. Fields, Sari Maritza, Burns & Allen and Bela Lugosi. Directed by Edward Sutherland. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on front: Mae West in It Ain't No Sin. with Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown and John Miljan. Directed by Leo McCarey. A Paramount Picture.

Printed on verso: Noah Berry, Jr., Tom Tyler, Carmelita Geraghty, William Desmond and Cecilia Parker in a scene from Universal's serial, Jungle Mystery.