Descriptive Summary
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives
Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3000
Phone: 435 797-8248
Fax: 435 797-2880
Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_P0146
Dupille,
Ernest.
Ernest Dupille travelogue and photographs
1914
2 boxes
1.5 linear ft.
Consists of a travelogue and 49 black &
white silver gelatin photographs that document Vaudeville performer Ernest Dupille's
travels across the United States, focusing mainly on the western states, in 1914.
Dupille's handwritten observations are contained in a notebook entitled "Travels of a
troubador" and include facts and impressions of the places and people he encountered,
but he does not include much information on his performances. Black and white
photographs include scenic views, Dupille posing with local people, photographs of
Native Americans, etc.
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
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Permission to publish material from the Ernest Dupille travelogue and photographs must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Ernest Dupille travelogue and photographs, 1914. (P0146). Utah State University. Special
Collections & Archives Department.
The Ernest Dupille travelogue and photographs were purchased in March of 1994.
Register completed by Peter Schmid, May 1998, and revised by Daniel Davis, May 2006.
Arranged in numeric sequence according to Box, Folder, and Item
The text and photographs (49 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs, 24 x 17.5 cm.
and smaller) document the travels across the country of Vaudeville performer Ernest
Dupille in 1914. He traveled all over the western United States and wrote his
observations down in a notebook entitled, "Travels of a Troubador" (58 pages of
holograph text, single-sided). Dupille's observations include facts about the places
visited and his perceptions of the people. The photographs include scenic views, Dupille
posing with local people, and images of Native Americans. He does not, however, offer
much comment on his performances.
Images
Dupille,
Ernest.
Indians of North
America--Photographs.
Vaudeville--United States.
Billboards--West
(U.S.)--Photographs.
West
(U.S.)--Description and travel.
West
(U.S.)--Description and travel--Photographs.
West
(U.S.)--Pictorial works.
Container List
1
1
Travelogue, "Travels of a Troubador"
1914
1:01:01-03
Views of Niagara Falls, New York
undated
1:01:04
Billboard advertising Dupille's act (along with
others), Empress Theatre, Spokane, Washington
undated
1:01:05
"Cowboy at Billings, Montana"
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1:01:06
Dupille with Indian man, "Lone Elk," Butte,
Montana
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1:01:07
"Tulsa," an Annie Oakley look-alike
undated
1:01:08
Billboard advertising Dupille's act (along with others), Empress Theatre,
Spokane, Washington
undated
1:01:09
Dupille with a "Spokane Indian Chief" on
horseback, Couer de Alene, Idaho
undated
1:01:10
"‘Hindoos' at Victoria,
B.C."
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1:01:11
"Camp of Siwash Indians at Victoria
B.C"
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1:01:12
"Strait of San Juan de Fuca, between Vancouver
& Victoria B.C."
undated
1:01:13
"Piute Indians in the Mojave
Desert"
undated
1:01:14
View of the Mojave Desert
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1:01:15-16
Dupille and orchard owner, Mr. Thom, with
Japanese laborers in orange groves of the San Fernando Valley,
California
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1:01:17
View of cannon at Santa Monica,
California
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1:01:18
"Among the Cacti in California"
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1:01:19
Dupille with a life preserver around him in San
Diego, California
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1:01:20
"Old Mission Bells in San Diego"
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1:01:21
"Mexican Adobe Oven, Tia Juana
Mexico"
undated
1:01:22
"Ernest Dupille The Disciple of Drollery in Mexico" [outside
saloon with locals]
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1:01:23
Dupille in an automobile, La Jolla,
California
undated
1:01:24
Federal prisoners marching under armed guard,
Point Loma, California
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1:01:25
"After the Bull Fight Tia Juana Mexico" [Dupille
holding a severed hoof]
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1:01:26
"Billy B. Van, Beaumont Sisters, Lou Anger and
Sophie Barnard at Mormon Temple, Salt Lake City Utah"
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1:01:27-28
The Empress in Salt Lake City advertising Dupille's performance.
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1:01:29
"Arrow-Head Springs, California"
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1:01:30
Dupille with Cheyenne Indians on
horseback
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1:01:31
Osage Indian women with their
horses
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1:01:32
Cheyenne man Swift Horse and two
women
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1:01:33
Little Soldier, a Ponca Indian
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1:01:34
Cut Finger and Blue Bird, Piutes
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1:01:35
Chicksaw Indian women bathing
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1:01:36
Sioux children and tepees
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1:01:37
Cut Finger, Piute
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1:01:38
Chocktaw Indians posing before tepees at the
reservation
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1
2
1:02:01
Snapshot of Dupille
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1
3
1:03:01
Publicity photograph of Dupille,
inscribed
undated
2
2:01-09
Snapshots, "Among the Micmac Indians–Dartmouth, Nova Scotia September 8th
1909."
September 8, 1909
Mounted on 35 cm. x 27 cm. board