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Gail Plummer photograph collection, 1888-1954

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Plummer, Gail, 1899-1964
Title
Gail Plummer photograph collection
Dates
1888-1954 (inclusive)
Quantity
6 box, (6 archives boxes)
Collection Number
P0138
Summary
The Gail Plummer photograph collection contains photographs of performers and performances in the Salt Lake Theater and at Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah. Includes photographs of various professional performers of the time.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Plummer collection contains photographs of Utah performers and performances in the Salt Lake Theater and Kingsbury Hall. Two albums of professional cabinet cards of well-known performers of the day also belong to the collection and are stored with the oversize material. Also included are images from the University of Utah's summer festivals of 1952 and 1954.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Elva Plummer in 1982.

Processing Note

Processed by Mary Ann Curtis 2000.

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Gail Plummer papers (MS 0667).

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Gail Plummer audiovisual collection (A0409).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Performers A-Z and Other Performers

    • Description: Performers, A
      • Photograph number 1: Unidentified woman, 1904
      • Photograph number 2: Lionel Adams
      • Photograph number 3: Viola Allen
      • Photograph number 4: Mary Anderson
      • Photograph number 5: Margaret Anglin
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, B
      • Photograph number 1: Ethel Barrymore, in "The Witness For the Defense"
      • Photograph number 2: Sarah Bernhardt
      • Photograph number 3: Holbrook Blinn, star of Paul Armstrong's " A Romance of the Underworld."
      • Photograph number 4: Mary Boland
      • Photograph number 5: "Elizabeth Brice who will play the principal part in A.H. Woods' new production 'Tantalizing Fancy'"
      • Photograph number 6: Minnie Littell Brune
      • Photograph number 7: Billie Burke in "The Runaway."
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, C
      • Photograph number 1: Mrs. Leslie Carter
      • Photograph number 2: Mrs. Leslie Carter
      • Photograph number 3: Enrico Caruso, composer and Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921)
      • Photograph number 4: George M. Cohan, author and actor
      • Photograph number 5: William Collier
      • Photograph number 6: Reon Cophlan, 1904
      • Photograph number 7: Jane Cowl as Mary Turner
      • Photograph number 8: William H. Crane in "Father and the Boys."
      • Photograph number 9: Henrietta Grosman in "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary."
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, D
      • Photograph number 1: Margaret Dale in "Father and the Boys."
      • Photograph number 2: Gertrude Dallas
      • Photograph number 3: Frank Daniels the comedian in "Little Puck," 1890.
      • Photograph number 4: Lawrence D'Orsay in "The Earl of Pawtucket."
      • Photograph number 5: Blandie Douglas
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, E-F
      • Photograph number 1: Robert Edeson as Robert Clay in "Soldiers of Fortune."
      • Photograph number 2: Dustin Farnum
      • Photograph number 3: William Farnum, the star of "The Littlest Rebel"
      • Photograph number 4: William Faversham
      • Photograph number 5: "Tallie Fisher, prima dona of A.H. Woods' newest musical production, 'The Woman Hater's Club.'"
      • Photograph number 6: Mrs. Fiske
      • Photograph number 7: "Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932), chief portrayer of Ibsen roles."
      • Photograph number 8: Trixie Friganza
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, G
      • Photograph number 1: Erma George
      • Photograph number 2: Jon Geyans in the University of Utah's Summer Festival's "Samson and Delilah." 1952
      • Photograph number 3-4: Paul Gilmore
      • Photograph number 5: J.W. Grady
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, H
      • Photograph number 1-3: Norman Hackett, 1903
      • Photograph number 4: Pauline Hall in "Wildfire"
      • Photograph number 5: Walter Hampden
      • Photograph number 6: Charles B. Hanford
      • Photograph number 7: Anna Held
      • Photograph number 8: Forest Huff in " Love"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, I-L
      • Photograph number 1: Henry Ibsen, author
      • Photograph number 2-3: Margaret Illington
      • Photograph number 4: Isabel Irving
      • Photograph number 5: Louis James as Alexander
      • Photograph number 6: Wilton Lackaye
      • Photograph number 7: Maude Leone
      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, M
      • Photograph number 1-2: Mary Mannering
      • Photograph number 3: Richard Mansfield
      • Photograph number 4-5: Robert Bruce Mantell
      • Photograph number 6: Julia Marlowe
      • Photograph number 7-8: Henry Miller
      • Photograph number 9: Madame Modycock
      • Photograph number 10: Patricia Morrison, 1952
      • Photograph number 11: Ann Murdock
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, N-P
      • Photograph number 1: Nazimova
      • Photograph number 2: Olga Nethersole
      • Photograph number 3: James O'Neil
      • Photograph number 4: Kathryn Osterman
      • Photograph number 5: Ignace Jan Padarewski, Polish Statesman, pianist, composer, and Prime Minister in 1919.
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, George D. Pyper
      • Photograph number 1-2: George D. Pyper portraits
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, Q-R
      • Photograph number 1: Rhean Ade as Lady Teasdale
      • Photograph number 2-3: Florence Roberts as Zaza
      • Photograph number 4: Eleanor Robson
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, S
      • Photograph number 1: Dorothy Sarnoff
      • Photograph number 2: Madame Schuman-Heuck
      • Photograph number 3: Hilda Spong
      • Photograph number 4: Lilly Stewart
      • Photograph number 5: Marguerita Sylva in "Gypsy Love"
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Sothern, Edward Hugh
      • Photograph number 1: E.H. Sothern in "An Enemy to the King"
      • Photograph number 2: E.H. Sothern in "The Prisoner of Zenda"
      • Photograph number 3-6: E.H. Sothern portraits
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, T-Z
      • Photograph number 1: Claramae Turner
      • Photograph number 2: Blanch Walsh in "Resurrection"
      • Photograph number 3: Frederick Warde as Alexander the Great, 1903
      • Photograph number 4: Frederick Warde
      Container: Box 2, Folder 7
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performers, Groups
      • Photograph number 1: Front Row: H.L. Marshall. 1st Row: Ellen Tibbits, Ardella Bitner, Elbert D. Thomas, Edna Parker, Retta Snow. 2nd Row: Elva Parkinson, Oscar H. Carlson, Claudia Schmierner, Jay E. Johnson, William Miffin.
      • Photograph number 2: "The Professor's Love Story," 1911. 1st Row: Lucille Rogers, Vivian Tolhurst, Laura Paulson, Maud May Babcock, Ellen Clark, Edna Hall. 2nd Row: Harold Goff, Benjamin Harvells, Harold A. Johnson, Hugo B. Anderson, Whitmore, Dr. Earl VanCott, Col. Robert W. Sharp.
      • Photograph number 3: Phyllis Partington and Arthur Albra in "Gypsy Love."
      • Photograph number 4: 1st row: Glen Kilburn, Valois Zarr, June Callister, Elvira Robbin, Evelyn Blood, Julia Brixen. 2nd Row: Keith Brown, Sam Holmer, Charles W. Elliott, Miran Taylor, Maud May Babcock, Max Wisner, Harold S. Jensen, Newcombe McCall. 1926
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performances, "Our Town"
      • Photograph number 1: Margaret Jones
      • Photograph number 2: Ruth M. Clark
      • Photograph number 3-5: Unidentified man
      • Photograph number 6: Martha Flancho and Wilson Thomas
      • Photograph number 7: Margaret Jones
      • Photograph number 8: Martha Flancho
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performances, Unidentified
      • Photograph number 1: Musicians
      • Photograph number 2-3: Crowds
      • Photograph number 4-15: Unidentified Performance
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers
    • Description: Performances, Unidentified
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11-13
      Location: Performers A-Z and Other Performers

  • Portraits, Ballet, University of Utah Summer Festival

  • Oversize Photographs

    • Description: Photograph Album
      • Photograph number 1: Rhea as Josephine
      • Photograph number 2: Mirna K. Gale
      • Photograph number 3: Agnes Evans
      • Photograph number 4: Loveler
      • Photograph number 5: Effie Sharmon
      • Photograph number 6: Sophie Eyre
      • Photograph number 7: Emma Nevada
      • Photograph number 8: Minnie Maddern
      • Photograph number 9: Mandi Granger
      • Photograph number 10: Lotta
      • Photograph number 11: Sara Jernett
      • Photograph number 12: Ida Mulle
      • Photograph number 13: Rhea
      • Photograph number 14: Unidentified woman
      • Photograph number 15: Erma Inch
      • Photograph number 16: Esther Palliser
      • Photograph number 17: Ollie Archmere
      • Photograph number 18-19: Lillian Russell
      • Photograph number 20: Annie Pixley
      • Photograph number 21: Isabella Irving
      • Photograph number 22: Estelle Clayton
      • Photograph number 23: Georgie Cayvan
      • Photograph number 24: Unidentified woman
      • Photograph number 25: Louise Dillon
      • Photograph number 26: Two young girls
      • Photograph number 27: Adeline and Pattie Theice
      • Photograph number 28-29: Unidentified woman
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: Oversize Photographs
    • Description: Photograph Album
      • Photograph number 1: Ida Mulle as cupid
      • Photograph number 2: Pauline Hale as Venus
      • Photograph number 3: Patti
      • Photograph number 4: Modjeska
      • Photograph number 5: Helen Hastreiter
      • Photograph number 6: Ellen Terry
      • Photograph number 7: Margaret Matter as Juliet
      • Photograph number 8: Hatti Doluno
      • Photograph number 9: Carlotta Brianza
      • Photograph number 10: Isabell Irving
      • Photograph number 11: Alice Evans
      • Photograph number 12: Maude Branscombe
      • Photograph number 13: Minnie Palmer
      • Photograph number 14: Emma Nevada
      • Photograph number 15: Leslie Chester
      • Photograph number 16: Marie Jensen
      • Photograph number 17: Alice J. Shaw
      • Photograph number 18: Patti Rosa
      • Photograph number 19: Enid Leslie
      • Photograph number 20: Christine Nillson
      • Photograph number 21: Pauline Hatt
      • Photograph number 22: Selena Fetter
      • Photograph number 23: Maggie Arlington
      • Photograph number 24: Vernona Jarbeau
      • Photograph number 25: Grace Barton
      • Photograph number 26: Tammy McLean
      • Photograph number 27: May Williams
      • Photograph number 28: Mary Anderson
      • Photograph number 29: Etelka Gerster
      • Photograph number 30: Marie Rose
      • Photograph number 31: Maud Brauscombe
      • Photograph number 32: Emily Rigl
      • Photograph number 33: Marie Wainwright
      • Photograph number 34: Effie Ellsler
      • Photograph number 35: Estelle Clayton
      • Photograph number 36: Maud Granger
      • Photograph number 37: Annie Prixley
      • Photograph number 38: Alice Lorimer
      • Photograph number 39: Laura Russell
      • Photograph number 40: Agenetti Alma
      Container: Box 5, Folder 1
      Location: Oversize Photographs
    • Description: Various Plays
      • Photograph number 1: "Her Husband's Wife." 1st row: Maurine Prouse, Eliza Packar, Orpha Kingsbury, Clare Kimball, Daisy Rolopp. 2nd row: Don Wood, Dee Angus Boyer, Henry Ruggeri, John Cotter, Duane G. Hunt.
      • Photograph number 2: "The Rainbow." 1st row: Margaret Ewing, Dolores Stohl, Blanche Marks, Helen Spencer, Fay Cornwall. 2nd row: Moroni Olsen, John Cotter, Nils Bolin, John Harrington, Frank Rassmussen, Don C. Wood, Van Y. Spencer, W.H. Veach.
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1
      Location: Oversize Photographs
    • Description: Various Plays
      • Photograph number 1: "Trelawney of the Wells," 1902. 1st row: Ellen Tibbits, Lulu Trane, Jay E. Johnson, Maud Driggs Christensen, Mabel Harker (Cannon). 2nd row: Edna Harker (Thomas), Ivy Dix. 3rd row: Harold Goff, John Condie, Jack Hyme, John V. Buckle, Angeline Holbrook (Taylor), Mr. Corry, W.L. Dunn, Lylia Knudson (Clayton), Elbert D. Thomas.
      • Photograph number 2: "O Me Thumb," 1912. Miss Babcock, Nat Webb, Harold Goff, Gilbert W. Williamson, Ethel Thomas (Bowman), Lina Wolf (Hickman), Janetta Stephens (Barker), Alberta McCan (Clark), Lucile Thurman.
      • Photograph number 3: "Arms and the Man," 1912. Front row: Lucille Rogers (Marshall). Middle Row: Nat H. Webb, Robert Goodwin, Col. Robert W. Sharp, Edna Hull (Bennion), Lila Eccles (Brimhall). Back row: Robert Dalgleish (Major Sergius Saranoff), Walter Gaby (Russian Officer).
      • Photograph number 4: "The Professor's Love Story," 1911. First row: Lucille Rogers (Marshall), Vivian Tolhurst (Butler), Laura Paulson (Hopkins), Maud May Babcock, Ellen Clark (Henderson), Edna Hull (Bennion). Second row: Harold Goff, Benjamin Harvells, Harold A. Johnson, Jugo B. Anderson, Whitmore, Dr. Earl VanCott, Col. Robert W. Sharp.
      Container: Box 6, Folder 2
      Location: Oversize Photographs

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Subject Terms

  • Actors--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs
  • Actresses--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs
  • Ballet dancers--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs
  • Theater--Utah--Salt Lake City--Photographs

Corporate Names

  • Kingsbury Hall (Salt Lake City, Utah)--Photographs
  • Salt Lake Theatre--Performances--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

  • Portrait photography
  • black-and-white photographs
  • cabinet photographs

Finding aid prepared by Mary Ann Curtis.
2000 (last modified: 2025)

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