Ithaca movie industry photograph collection, 1915-1965.
Collection Number: 2959
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ithaca movie industry photograph collection, 1915-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2959
Abstract:
Photographs of movie actors and actresses, movie sets in Ithaca, New York, scenes
from movies and various public events in Ithaca.
Creator:
Hennessy, Mame
Quanitities:
.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Ithaca, New York was a silent film center from 1910 through the 1920s. The Wharton
Brothers Studio was located in Renwick (now Stewart) Park.
Photographs of movie actors and actresses, movie sets in Ithaca, New York, scenes
from movies and various public events in Ithaca, collected by actress Mame (Mary L.)
Hennessy. Also, personal photographs of Mary Hennessy, her family, friends and residences;
letters and postcards, 1917-1964; news clippings, 1917, 1949-1961; miscellaneous manuscript
and printed material, 1947-1965; and photographic negatives. Includes photographs
of Irene Castle, Grace Darling, Doris Kenyon, Derwent Hall Caine, Florence Short,
Marguerrete Marsh, Lillian Walker, Betty Howe, Frances White, Pearl White, Jean Sothern,
Elsie Baker, Evelyn Ferris, Dick Steward, Eddie Kaw, E. Coit Albertson, and Creighton
Hale.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ithaca movie industry photograph collection, #2959. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Albertson, E. Coit.
Caine, Derwent Hall.
Castle, Irene, 1893-1969.
Darling, Grace, 1893-1963.
Farris, Evelyn.
Howe, Betty.
Kaw, Eddie.
Baker, Elsie.
Hale, Creighton.
Kenyon, Doris.
Marsh, Marguerrete.
Sothern, Jean.
Stewart, Dick.
Thixton, Lillian Walker.
White, Frances.
White, Pearl, 1889-1938.
Hennessy, Mary L.
Wharton Studio (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Places:
Tompkins County (N.Y.)
Ithaca (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Women in the motion picture industry.
Motion picture studios -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Series I. Photographs
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Subseries Ia. Still Photographs of Actors and Actresses
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Mary Hennessy in Spanish riding costume
ID #A1 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Mary Hennessy in fur coat for "The Great White Trail."
ID #A2 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Mary Hennessy, with hair down, sitting on a beach
ID #A3 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Mary Hennessy, with hair down, sitting on beach. Different than above shot
ID #A4 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Mary Hennessy, with hair down, passport style photographs (14 photographs, different
poses)
ID #A5 |
1920s |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Irene Castle, with famous Castle "bob" and pearls
ID #A6 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Irene Castle, costumed in military uniform
ID #A7 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Irene Castle in satin gown with ostrich feather fan. Autographed
ID #A8 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Grace Darling, head and shoulders. Autographed
ID #A9 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Grace Darling, seated on rock face
ID #A10 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Doris Kenyon, with tulle veil. Autographed
ID #A11 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Florence Short, black lace dress. Autographed
ID #A12 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Florence Short, black lace dress. Different from above.
ID #A13 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Marguerrete [sic] Marsh, head and shoulders. Autographed
ID #A14 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Lillian Walker, with parrot. Autographed
ID #A15 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Betty Howe, with flower (copy)
ID #A16 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Betty Howe seated on a table against a mirror. Autographed
ID #A17 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Frances White, with long ringlets. Autographed
ID #A18 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Pearl White, head and shoulders, in "Hazel K"
ID #A19 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Pearl White, reclining on a stone bench
ID #A20 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Jean Sothern, on a tree trunk with a cat. Autographed
ID #A21 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Elsie Baker in velvet gown with buttoned boots. Autographed
ID #A22 |
March 30, 1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Elsie Baker head and shoulders with fur neck piece
ID #A23 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Evelyn Ferris leaning against tree trunk. Autographed
ID #A24 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
"Muro", a young woman in Japanese Costume
ID #A25 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified Ithaca girl trying out. Diaphanous white shawl and dress against background
of willow trees
ID #A26 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified star, head and shoulders, pearls around neck. De Barron Studios, NYC
ID #A27 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Same star as above, with pearls around neck. De Barron Studios, NYC
ID #A28 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Derwent Hall Caine, arms folded. Autographed
ID #A29 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Creighton Hale, head and shoulders, arms folded
ID #A30 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
E. Coit Albertson costumed for "Million Dollar Mystery." Autographed
ID #A31 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Eddie Kaw head and shoulders, arms folded. Autographed
ID #A32 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Dick Steward, costumed for "The Circus." Autographed
ID #A33 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Dick Steward in cowboy costume
ID #A34 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Pearl White, head and shoulders with fox neck piece
ID #A35 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified man with mustache in Western Costume
ID #A36 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified man in headgear with triangular piece over forehead
ID #A37 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified girl in Hawaiian costume with straw skirt
ID #A38 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Unidentified girl with flowers in her hair, sitting pose
ID #A39 |
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Subseries Ib. Movie Sets, Lots, and Shooting
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Group of people outside casting office
ID #B1 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Shows photographer (US Flag and tents in the background)
ID #B2 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Interior with man holding numbers in foreground (shot sequence?)
ID #B3 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Airplane with Jim Gordon, Leo Wharton, and other men. Sign in background reads "Wharton-Inc.
Ithaca, NY."
ID #B4 |
1915-1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Wharton-Inc. movie lot viewed from lake
ID #B5 |
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Subseries Ic. Scenes from Movies Pre-1928
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Mary Hennessy and others in scenes from the "Great White Trail"
ID #C1-C6 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Doris Kenyon, Paul Gordon, Harvey Davenport in the "Great White Trail"
ID #C7 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Mary Hennessy, Louise Hotaling, Dick Stewart in the "Great White Trail"
ID #C8 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Mary Hennessy and others in the "Great White Trail"
ID #C9-C10 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Irene Castle costumed for "Patria"
ID #C11 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Irene Castle dancing in "Patria," with Bob Causer, Pat Hennessy, Hazel Marion, Lena
Keigan, Mrs. James Ward and Bernard Randall
ID #C12 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Bess Emerich (Mrs. Leo Wharton), King Baggott, Margaret Campbell. Scene from "The
Eagle's Eye"
ID #C13 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Irene Castle and Milton Sills in "Patria." Taken in Ithaca gorge, likely Cascadilla
ID #C14 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Bess Emerich and Dick Stewart in "Patria"
ID #C15 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Irene Castle and Mary Hennessy in "Patria"
ID #C16 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Unidentified actors and actresses, probably in a scene from "Patria" with Warner Oland,
Irene Castle and others
ID #C17 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Matt Schiltz, Major Bill Guderman, and others at Mr. Moxon's Feed Store in "The Adventures
of Wallingford"
ID #C18 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
George Homill, Maurice Bond, Pat Hennessy, all of Ithaca, in "Adventures of Wallingford"
ID #C19 |
1915 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Howard Teachout, Frances White, Lolita Robertson, and Max Figman with Burr McIntosh
in "Get Rich Quick" ("Adventures of Wallingford")
ID #C20 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy and Margie Reulin with others unidentified in Wallingford Series
ID #C21 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy, Mrs. Reulin, Hazel Marion, Mrs J Ward, Helen Buck in Wallingford Series
ID #C22 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Burr McIntosh in "The Adventures of Wallingford"
ID #C23 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Early plane with pilot rescuing woman from the water
ID #C24 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Woman in washtub, policeman and a dog in someone's garden. 2 shots
ID #C25-C26 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Court room scene with Jim and Pat Hennessy, Dick Stewart, Lou Oliver, Dan Crowley
and others. 2 copies
ID #C27 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy with two unidentified women on a settee
ID #C28 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Harry Fox and Ithaca policemen in "Beatrice Fairfax" series
ID #C29 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Bill Bracken, Marguerite Marsh, Carylyn Marbo, Precious Personius--warden, in "The
Million Dollar Mystery"
ID #C30 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Dale Gass, Clarence Smith, George Connor, Ralph Durphy, Harry Fox, Berry. 2 copies
ID #C31 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Motor launch on a lake
ID #C32 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy, Edith Tree, Hazel Marion, Babe Cole in restaurant scene
ID #C33 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy and Lillian Walker
ID #C34 |
1915 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy, Lillian Walker, Billy Pike
ID #C35 |
1915 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Billy Pike and Lillian Walker
ID #C36 |
1915 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy and Lillian Walker
ID #C37 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Unidentified man and woman with Saint Bernard dog
ID #C38 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy with unidentified man and woman in doorway
ID #C39 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy with same man and woman as above, but with three other people
ID #C40 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy about to use the telephone
ID #C41 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Hennessy telephoning
ID #C42 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Howard Teachout, Mary Hennessy, Max Figman in "Get Rich Quick"
ID #C43 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Unidentified actors and actresses
ID #C44-45 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Ariel and Norma Bement, George Homill, Maurice Bond, Harold Urband
ID #C46 |
1915-1916 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Grace Darling and others outside a hotel
ID #C47 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Grace Darling and others, including man with rifle and a man holding a bucket and
a rope
ID #C48 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Unidentified group of people standing on the grass outside a hotel
ID #C49 |
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Subseries Id. Various Public Events in Ithaca
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1940s-1950s | ||
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Mary Hennessy, Hostess at Warren Hall, CU
ID #D1 |
October 25, 1946 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Rally. Sue Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Mary Hennessy, Daniel Crowley, Katie
Crowley
ID #D2 |
October 16, 1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Unidentified banquet with Mary Hennessy
ID #D3-D4 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Old Time Minstrel Show, Immaculate Conception Church
ID #D5 |
April 1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Hennessy at back of auditorium during production
ID #D6 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Women's dinner, Hennessy in background
ID #D7-D9 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Unidentified group of people, apparently at a costume ball. Personius, Elmire, photographer
ID #D10 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Backstage preparations, Toby Clarey, applying makeup for amateur production, presumably
Community Players. Two copies
ID #D11 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Mary Hennessy and Bess
ID #D12 |
April 4, 1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Amateur production, girl dressed as majorette
ID #D13 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Ithaca Theatre--"The Playboy of the Western World"
ID #D14 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Old Ithaca College Theatre
ID #D15-D16 |
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Unidentified scene from production of an operetta
ID #D17 |
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Subseries Ie. Personal Photographs
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Photographs featuring children. 10 items
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n.d., 1946, 1959 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Mary Hennessy with others. 79 items
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1940s-1960s |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Snapshots of residences: 319 E. Court Street, Coral Gables, Unidentified houses (most
likely in Florida). 6 items.
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Group shots without Mary Hennessy. 62 items.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Mary Hennessy alone. 18 items
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous. 14 items
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous negatives. 21 items
ID #I |
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Series II. Letters and Postcards
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Postcards to JJH from "Dick" from Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, NYC. 6 items
ID #F-1-6 |
1917 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Postcard from Mame to J Hennessy, on location at Saranac Lake for "The Great White
Trail"
ID #F-7 |
1917 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Sympathy acknowledgement card and note from Irene Castle after husbands death in aviation
accident. 2 items
ID #F8 |
February 15, 1918 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letter from Bess Harris complaining of lack of mention of herself and small group
for work they did in Ithaca
ID #F9 |
July 27, 1989 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letter from Arch Merrill, author of newspaper articles
ID #F10 |
1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letter from Robert E. Treman thanking Mame for being hostess at Democratic Dinner
at Ithaca Hotel
ID #F11 |
October 1, 1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Mimeo. letter and coupon stub from Community Players
ID #F12 |
1952-1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Letter from James Farley, enclosing picture of him and grandson with Pope Paul VI
ID #F13 |
April 17, 1964 |
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Series III. Miscellaneous Printed Material
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
"The Cornell Widow"
ID #G1 |
December 1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
"The Cornell Widow"
ID #G2 |
May 1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Program, "Hats Off! to Theatre in Ithaca", Statler Club
ID #G3 |
May 4, 1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Advertisement on WHCU; Mary used as example of mother for fur gift from Louis Herman's
ID #G4 |
May 8, 1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
"Letter to the Editor" by Charles Chatfield, WHCU
ID #G5 |
July 9, 1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Copy of term paper done with help of interview from Mame, "The Development of the
Motion Picture Industry in Ithaca, NY" by Charlotte White
ID #G6 |
December 17, 1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Program for Citizenship Award Dinner, VFW. Daniel Crowley guest of honor
ID #G7 |
April 3, 1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Script of play "Prim and Promiscuous", probably for benefit of Policemen's Ball. Spoof
on "Pride and Prejudice."
ID #G8 |
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Series IV. News Clippings
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Elmira Paper, death of Dennis Crowley
ID #H1 |
January 1917 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Ithaca Journal"
ID #H2 |
July 26, 1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Ithaca Journal"
ID #H3 |
August 12, 1949 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Elmira Sunday Telegram"
ID #H4 |
August 20, 1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Elmira Sunday Telegram"
ID #H5 |
August 21, 1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Ithaca Journal" local democrats
ID #H6 |
May 28, 1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Ithaca paper, with Janet O'Daniel
ID #H7 |
May 9, 1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Bake sale for democrats, 2 copies. Ithaca and Syracuse papers
ID #H8 |
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