The collection is divided into the following categories:
Photographs of motion picture, theater and other performers and performances. Some of the photographs include inscriptions to Carl Paige Wood, who was the director of the University of Washington School of Music and also to Caroline Burke, the wife of Judge Thomas Burke. Also includes movie stills and publicity photographs collected by the photographer Iwao Matsushita who seems to have collected publicity photographs of silent film stars and movie stills in an album.
The collection is open to the public.
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
This collection brings together photographs from many sources. A large portion of the photographs were originally in the UW Drama School collection before being transferred to Special Collections. Another group of photographs were transferred from the Iwao Matsushita collection. Matsushita seems to have collected publicity photographs of silent film stars in an album.
Items 271a-b source: KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs November 13, 2012.
Item 274a donor: Richard Merchant.
Processed by Elizabeth Russell and Stefanie Terasaki, 2012.
19 photographs were deaccessioned from the collection and destroyed due to their condition. The photographs were pasted on acidic cardboard containing glitter and remnants of glue.
Item 21a was transferred from the Portrait file, 2014.
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
American stage actress.
Label attached to verso: From Charles L. Fritzman, 943 Broadway, N.Y.
Label attached to verso: From Charles L. Fritzman, 943 Broadway, N.Y.
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was a ballet company that toured North America between 1939 and 1962.
Autographed on photo.
Borsten began her career as a child actress.
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.
President of Presser Foundation for music and music education
and editor in chief of
Printed on verso: S. Hurok presents Mary Costa, soprano. Hurok Attractions, New York.
Stamped on verso: Richard Crooks. Leading Tenor. Metropolitan Opera Co.
Stamped on verso: Richard Crooks. Leading Tenor. Metropolitan Opera Co.
Stamped on verso: Richard Crooks. Leading Tenor. Metropolitan Opera Co.
Stamped on verso: Richard Crooks. Leading Tenor. Metropolitan Opera Co.
Lore Deja was a German dancer who taught at Cornish College of the Arts for three years starting in 1930.
The Mrs. Burke of the inscriptions is Mrs. Thomas Burke.
Madame Donald-Ayer was Prima Donna at the Boston Opera Company, and later went on the vaudeville circuits.
Written on photo: For Mrs. Burke - In memory of my work in Seattle - Der Donald Ayer.
Written on photo: For Mrs. Burke - with deep appreciation from Der Donald Ayer.
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.
Edwwards appeared in the New York production of Music In May with Cary Grant.
Written on verso: I like this head best.
Autographed on photo.
Item a is inscribed to Glenn Hughes, director of the drama program at the University of Washington. Dated May 26, 1947.
Printed on verso: Property of W. Colston Leigh Inc., NYC.
Caption on photo: Douglas Fairbanks in "Don Q" Son of Zorro.
Inscribed on photo: Lip, Come across too [sic] the Red Crow. Douglas Fairbanks.
Written on verso: From Burke collection.
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
Walter Hampden (1879-1955) was an American actor noted for Shakespearian roles. He appeared in
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
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
Danish and American opera singer known for his Wagnerian style of singing.
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.
Printed on verso: Management Evans and Salter, New York
Printed on Verso: Management Evans and Salter, New York.
Printed on Verso: Jack Salter Artist Management, Inc. Division of Columbia Concerts, Inc., New York.
Printed on Verso: Lawrence Evans Artist Management Inc., New York.
Printed on Verso: Lawrence Evans Artist Management Inc., Division of Columbia Concerts, Inc., New York.
Printed on Verso: Management Evans and Salter, New York.
Printed on front: Blackstone Studios, Inc.
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
Mitropoulos was the musical director of the N.Y. Philharmonic- Symphony from 1949-1958.
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: While in Frankfurt, inspecting one of the ironies of the war. It's the Statue of Justice, which stands unscathed in the center of a bomb-blasted street.
Autographed on verso: To my good friend Mrs. Burke with my very best wishes, Jaifoi!
Written on verso: From Burke Collection
Autographed on verso: A la chere madame Burke. Souvenir de Emma Nevada Palmer. Jaifoi!
Written on verso: From Burke Collection
Autographed on front: To dear Mr. and Mrs. Burke with best wishes, Emma Nevada Palmer. Jaifoi!
Printed on verso: Paramount player in "John Meade's Woman," wears this romantic wedding dress designed by Edith Head.
Operatic soprano and coloratura soprano.
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
Printed on front: Paramount pictures Inc. Permission granted for Newspaper and Magazine reproductions.
Reitan was born in Tacoma, WA and won the Metropolitan Opera
Regionals in 1959. His first important role with the Metropolitan Opera was in
1959 as Homonay in
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
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
Autographed on photos.
Autographed on photo.
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".
Was the conductor of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
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.
Alex Templeton was a pianist and satirist known for his
amusing renditions of classical songs. He studied at the Royal College of Music
in London and came to the United states in 1935. He had a radio show on and off
from 1939-1947 called
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
Toscanini began conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1937 at the NBC Studio in Rockefeller Center. The concerts were moved to Carnegie hall in 1950. Toscanini's final year as NBC conductor was in 1954.
Autographed on photo.
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 subject, Zora, may have been the photograhper's wife.
Mrs. W. R. Blake was an actress and the widow of William Rufus Blake, a stage comedian. She was descended from a long line of performers that went back to Drury Lane in London.
J. W. Wallack, Jr. (1818-1873) was a performer and producer who appeared in original plays such as
Mrs. J. W. Wallack (Anna Duff Waring) was the daughter of Mrs. Blake from her first marriage and the wife of James W. Wallack, Jr.
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.
A flamenco dancing couple that was dubbed Los Chavalillos and was very active from 1930-1952.
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.
The Roth Quartet was started in Budapest in 1922 by Feri Roth.
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.
From the collection of Barrett H. Clark.
Written on verso: Prof. G.P. Baker at Harvard with his class in playwriting.
Autographed on front.
Autographed on photo to James Carlson Young.
Autographed on photo to Monsieur Young.
Written on verso: To accompany the plays of Oskar Kokoschka- Barrett H. Clark.
Printed on verso: Portrait of the artist by himself. By permission of Paul Cassirer, Berlin.
Autographed on photo to James Carlson Young.
Production by the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
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
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
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
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: The Yacht Club Boys, Ben Blue, Rufe Davis, Billy Lee, Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiian Orchestra and Eve Arden. Directed by Alfred Santell. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on verso: Here director Al Santell and Dorothy Howe are making a presentation on the set of "Cocoanut Grove" at Paramount. The placard was designed by an artist who got a tip on the races from one of the Yacht Clubbers.
Printed on front: United Artists Picture.
Printed on verso: Samuel Goldwyn presents Will Rogers in
Printed on verso: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Rafaela
Ottiano and Grace Ford in the weird homecoming scene in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
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
Printed on verso: Approved Advertising Advisory Council J.J. McCarthy, April 12, 1935, Hollywood.
Printed on front: Carl Laemmle presents Hoot Gibson in
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,
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
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.
Photos are printed with a stamp from The Museum of Modern Art Film Library Corporation, New York.
Written on verso: The Woman who Rocks the Cradle- Lillian Gish.
Printed on verso: Robert Harron as The Boy in a scene from
The Modern Story (1914), of D.W. Griffith's
Printed on verso: Mae Marsh as The Girl, in the courtroom
scene of the Modern Story (1914), of D.W. Griffith's
Printed on verso: Constance Talmadge as The Mountain Girl of
the Babylonian Story (539 B.C.) of D.W. Griffith's
Printed on verso: Margery Wilson as Brown Eyes, and Eugene
Pallette as Prosper Latour, her sweetheart, in the French Story (1572 A.D.) of
D.W. Griffith's
Printed on front: Mae West in
Printed on verso: Noah Berry, Jr., Tom Tyler, Carmelita
Geraghty, William Desmond and Cecilia Parker in a scene from Universal's
serial,
Produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Printed on front: With The Lion Man (Buster Crabbe) and Frances Dee.
Paramount symbol on front.
Printed on front: Otis Skinner and Loretta Yound in
Printed on front: With Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and Sari Maritza. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: Thos. H. Ince presents Douglas MacLean and
Doris May in
Printed on verso: Clark Gable and Franchot Tone are seen as rival newspapermen. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture starring Gable and Joan Crawford. W.S. Van Dyke directs and Joseph Mankiewicz is the producer.
Printed on front: With Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel and Helen Jerome Eddy. B.P. Production, directed by Marion Gering. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on verso: Joseph Calleia seems to have director Edwin L. Marin in a tough spot as they take a whirl at the old fashioned game of dominos between scenes.
A Paramount Picture.
Printed on verso: Robert Warwick and Harvey Stephens, starring Spencer Tracy with Virginia Bruce, new Harry Rapf production directed by Tim Whelan fro Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Printed on front: Starring Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston. Color by Technicolor. Directed by Byron Haskin. Screenplay by Philip Yordan and Ranald MacDougall. Based on a story by Carl Stephenson. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: A Universal Picture.
Printed on front: An RKO Radio Picture.
Printed on front: Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen with Minna Gombell and Sally Blane. A Charles R. Rogers production directed by Albert Rogell. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: Produced and Directed by W. Lee Wilder. Released through United Artists.
Printed on front: Republic Pictures. Based on the song by Al Dexter with Ruth Terry, Robert Livingston, Wally Vernon, Jack Larue and The King Cole Trio.
Printed on front: Harold Lloyd with Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley, Thurston Hall. Cora Witherspoon, Sterling Holloway. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: Harold Lloyd with Phyllis Welch, Raymond Walburn, Lionel Stander, William Frawley, Thurston Hall. Cora Witherspoon, Sterling Holloway. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: Educational Pictures, Mermaid Comodies.
Quizdown was an academic game show sponsored by the Post-Intelligencer that aired on KOMO-TV.
Printed on front: 20th Century Fox. Prints by DeLuxe.
Printed on front: A Universal Production.
An American film adaptation to the Shakespeare play that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936.
Printed on verso: Eddie Woehler, assistant to Director George Cukor on the filming of Irving G. Thalberg's production of "Romeo and Juliet." Norma Shearer and Howard are starred as the immortal lovers in the new Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer picture. In the supporting cast are John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone and others.
Printed on verso: The candid cameraman caught the famous star and director as they discussed the famous garden sequence of the classic.
Printed on front: Warner Bros. Classics of the Screen.
Printed on front: An RKO Radio Picture.
Printed on verso: Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) conceals her jealousy and selfishness under the guise of motherly solicitude for the welfare of her son, David, (Joel McCrea). An RKO Radio picture starring Irene Dunne.
Printed on front: With Anthony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, Helen Westley, Allan Lane, Dixie Dunbar. A Twentieth Century Fox Picture.
An RKO Radio Picture.
Printed on front: With Ted Donaldson, Stephen Dunne, Tom Powers, Ann Doran, Thurston Hall and Rusty. A Columbia picture.
Printed on front: An Ernst Lubitsch Production. Warner Bros. Classics of the Screen.
Printed on front: Tiffany Productions Inc. presents
A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture.
Printed on verso: George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in a scene
from F.W. Murnau's
Printed on verso: The Museum of Modern Art Film Library Corp. 485 Madison Avenue, New York.
Printed on verso: Street scene from F.W. Murnau's
Printed on verso: The Museum of Modern Art Film Library Corp. 485 Madison Avenue, New York.
Printed on front: Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott with May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Barrat, Robert Cummings and Harvey Stephens. Directed by James Hogan. A Paramount Picture.
A 20th Century- Fox Production.
Printed on verso: Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer's adaptation of the
Damon Runyon story.
Printed on front: Educational Productions. Mermaid Comedies.
Printed on verso: Husband, wife and lover. Melvyn Douglas,
Luise Rainer and Robert Young enact these roles in M-G-M's
Printed on front: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray with Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, Spanky MacFarland and Fuzzy Knight. Produced by Walter Wanger. Directed by Henry Hathaway. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on front: Monogram pictures Corp. presents Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. With Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Young and Tanis Chandler.
Printed on verso: Lee Tracy as Joe Gimlet, a man who relives
his life in the hilarious farce-drama
Printed on verso: Auer plays an impecunious Russian prince and Mowbray a playboy millionaire.
Printed on verso: Here the extras are shown at the novel circular bar in a swank fashion salon setting of the Technicolor picture.
Printed on verso: Alan Mowbray, abetted by James Carlysle (right) and J.W. Johnstone, are shown sitting in judgement at an art ball.
Printed on verso: Fashion shows woven into the romantic
omedy,
Printed on front: Talking Picture Epics, Inc.
Printed on front: Fox Picture.
Printed on front: Claudette Colbert with Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier, Genevieve Tobin and Walter Catlett. Directed by George Cukor. A Paramount Picture.
Printed on verso: Bert Lahr, Broadway revue comedian playing his first character role, is the friend and vaudeville partner of Claudette Colbert. Miss Colbert essays a role made famous by Mme. Rejane Nazimova.
Originally from the Matsushita Family Photograph Collection (PH Collection 162).
Printed on front: Frank Lloyd's production, Black Oxen, a First National Picture.
Has a stamp from Paramount Pictures on the front.
Printed on verso: Robert Z. Leonard presents Mae Murray in
Printed on front: Colleen Moore in
Printed on front: Colleen Moore in
Printed on verso: Metro Pictures Corporation presents
Printed on front: Agnes Ayres, new star in Paramount Pictures.
Printed on front: Betty Compson in Paramount Pictures.
Printed on verso:
Printed on verso: Although Marguerite de la Motte looks quite
contented here, she wears a wistful expression most of the time in
Printed on front: Pola Negri in Paramount Pictures.
Printed on verso: Metro presents Rex Ingram's
Printed on photo: Gloria Swanson in Paramount Picture.
Written on verso: Exterior of Pasadena Community Playhouse for
use in Glen Hughes
Teatro Olimpico, built between 1580 and 1585, is the oldest surviving enclosed theater in the world.
Photographer Pietro Poppi (1833-1914) signed his photographs using the name "Fotografia dell'Emilia Bologna"
Written on verso: Gift of BH Clark, 1940.
Series, labeled with initials P.Z.
Theaters in series include: Orange Theatre, Greek theater of Siracusa with a panorama of the city.
Caption: By the courtesy of the Gramophone Co., Ltd. Caricature of Caruso making a record. Drawn by himself.
Written on verso: John Gilbert as "Sir Peter Teazle." Bust by now at the The Players in N.Y.
Transferred from the KING Broadcasting Company Photograph Collection (PH Collection 1315), these are publicity photographs for national network programs not specific to KINGTV.
Caption: Richard Burton appears in and narrates Seven Arts
Television's half-hour TV Special,
Attached note: Noel Harrison is the male star of
Attached note: Bill Cosby
Attached note: Show: "Hostage" on NBC-TV's
Attached note: Neville Brand star,
Attached note: Host to celebrities--Bill Cullen, host of NBC
Television Network's
Attached note: The Wolper Award Specials. The writings of
Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner supply the theme and background of
Attached note: Robert Taylor acts as host and occasional
star on the true western adventure series,
Caption: Robert Taylor, host and occasional star of
Caption: Robert Taylor, host and occasional star of
Caption: Ronald Reagan, host and occasional star of
Attached note: Caption for Daytona 500. One of the 11 caution flags that went up during the Daytona 500. It was a demolition derby. Fifty cars started, but only 19 finished. Highlights of the Daytona 500 will be presented in color (day) at (time) on channel (#).
Attached note: Vera Miles Sees Ghost-Like Double. Vera
Miles stars as Millicent Barnes, a private secretary who sees her own
ghost-like double, in Rod Sterling's teleplay, "Mirror Image," on
Attached note: A Question of Time. Ed Wynn stars as an old
clockmaker and Carolyn Kearney plays his granddaughter in "Ninety Years Without
Slumbering," next
Attached note: Back to the Grind. James Best stars as a
young man who rises from his casket at his own funeral and Sherry Jackson
co-stars as his fiancee, in "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank," next
Attached note: Selfish Mother. Dee Hartford stars in "The
Bewitching Pool," story of a selfish mother who fails to give her children love
and affection, next
Attached note: Thirty Fathoms Down. John Considine, as a
Navy diver, prepares to descend into the waters off Guadalcanal to investigate
strange sounds apparently coming from a sunken submarine, during "The Thirty
Fathom Grave," next
Attached note: Lost World. Dana Andrews co-stars with
Patricia Breslin in "No Time Like the Past,"
Attached note: Togetherness. Pat Hingle stars as Horace
Ford, a toy designer, with Jim E. Titus (right) playing a featured role in the
Reginald Rose story, "The Incredible World of Horace Ford," next
Printed on verso: Lloyd Bochner and Vera Miles in
Printed on verso: "The Hate Syndrome" #172 - Starring Edward Franz.
Written on verso:
Written on verso:
Written on verso: Guy Stockwell & Diana Muldaur in
Attached caption: Travel Trailers comprising the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan. The Caravanners themselves left by passenger ship a day earlier.
Attached caption: Bamboo Bridge--Trailers of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan cross a small tributary of the Ganges River south of the village of Raxaul in India near border to Nepal. Lining up with the narrow, flimsy-looking bridge was quite a problem, but all the Airstreams got through with out incident.
Attached caption: Around the World Caravanners inside the reception hall at Old Palace in Katmandu, Nepal. Having left behind the monsoon rain and mud of Malaysia and Thailand--at least temporarily--there are plenty of occasions for "dress up".
Attached caption: Wally Byam Around the World Caravans enters Bangkok, Thailand. American tire company also anticipated the Caravan's visit as can be seen on the right.
Attached caption: School children near Songkhla, Thailand, wait to go inside this Airstream of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan. Each child said "Thank you" in English after the treat.
Attached caption: Temple at Nakor (Nakhon Si), Thailand provides unique setting for Wally Byam Caravan encampment.
Attached caption: Elephant roundup at Li, Thailand (150 kilometers south of Chiengmai). The villagers were more than glad to show off their proud elephants for the benefit of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan.
Attached caption: Cape Comorin, land's end, India. The Wally Byam Caravan enters an area set aside for them by the India Tourist Agency. The Caravanners found Cape Comorin among the most beautiful places of their trip around the world so far.
Attached caption: Airstreams of the Around the World Caravan enter Delhi, India. Governmental buildings are in the background. Here the trailers are traveling convoy fashion. Elsewhere they sometimes drove separately, meeting at a pre-set point. (Airstream Photo No. 963-5).
Attached caption: Andrew J. Charles, leader of the Around the World Caravan returns a gesture with this amiable elephant belonging to the Maharajah of Banares.
Attached caption: Maharajah of Benares, India, H.S. Vibhuti Narayah Singh, becomes an honorary member of the Wally Byam Caravan., He is shown with his family and Andrew J. Charles, leader of the Around the World Caravan just before a tour of the caravan and a visit inside Charles' Airstream travel trailer.
Attached caption: Rangoon, Burma--Caravanners with the Around the World Caravan go on a picture-taking expedition. Burma refused entry for the Airstreams of the Caravan but welcomed the Caravanners, who flew in by plane.
Attached caption: Jami Masjid, temple at Mandu, one of the finest examples of Adghan architecture in India, attracts this Airstream of the Around the World Caravan. The high, walled city of Mandu was once a playground for India's royalty.
Attached caption: Airstream with the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan enters residential area near Calcutta, India. Like people everywhere the Indians where hospitable.
Attached note: Airstream of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan pauses at the tombs of Qutub Shahi Kings at Hyderabad, India. Tombs date from 1518 to 1689.
Attached caption: Caravanners with the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan pose for this picture inside the Golconda Fort near Hyderabad, India. The fort is on a high hill and its wall enclose seven square miles of territory.
Attached caption: Meenakshi temple, near Madurai. Trailer of the Around the World Caravan pauses at highest (160 feet) of four elements of temple complex near southernmost tip of India. (Airstream No. 986-12).
Attached caption: Bas relief of Sapor I, emperor of the Second Persian empire near Persepolis, Iran. Trailerists of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan traveled through the Nagh-e-Rustam, or City of the Dead, on its way through the desert toward Jerusalem.
Attached caption: Roman forum at Jerash, Jordan. Wally Byam Caravanners park their Airstreams in the remarkably well preserved ruin. Later they were taken on a special tour of additional Roman ruins by a technical advisor to the Department of Antiquities of the Jordanean government.
Attached caption: Kremlin Wall--Travel trailers of the Wally Byam Around the World Caravan park just outside the Kremlin in Moscow during their historic overland circuit of the globe.
Attached note: "Rona Barrett Looks at Oscar". John Wayne,
winner of last year's Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance in