| Dates: | circa 1895-1910 |
| Size: | .25 linear feet in 1 box, includes 1 scrapbook |
| Repository: | Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 |
| Collection Number: | spe-ctc-sbd |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | The compiler and source of this scrapbook is unknown. |
| Conditions governing use: | Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection |
| Conditions governing access: | Materials open without restrictions |
| Preferred citation: | When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Theater Scrapbook “D,” [Page #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library |
| Finding aid author: | Original author unknown, 1986. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Sarah Zimmerman, 2022. |
Abstract
Theater scrapbook “D” consists of portraits of late 19th and early 20th century actors and actresses clipped from sources such as newspapers, periodicals and programs.
Biographical / Historical
This anonymous scrapbook has been given its name by the penciled letter “D” on the lower right-hand corner of its first page. The source is unknown.
Scope and Contents
Theater Scrapbook “D” consists of portraits of late 19th and early 20th century actors and actresses, clipped from sources such as newspapers, periodicals and programs and pasted into a folio-sized, clothbound office ledger scrapbook. There are no annotations other than the date January 21, 1904 written inside the front cover, and a penciled letter “D” in the lower right-hand corner of the first page. Images are occasionally accompanied by captions including the role and/or production depicted.
Arrangement
The scrapbook remains bound in its original order. Pages were numbered in 1986, and an alphabetical index to actors and actresses represented was created.
Related Materials
Chicago Theater Collection, historical programs and scrapbooks
Subject Headings
- Theater – Illinois – Chicago – 19th century – Sources.
- Theater – Illinois – Chicago – 20th century – Sources.
- Scrapbooks.
- Clippings.
- Portraits.
Collection Inventory
| Box SBD | Page 148 | Abeles, Edward | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 12-14, 52, 96, 112-113, 143, 148, 153, 159, 164, 185 | Adams, Maud | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 102, 158 | Ade, George | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 12, 164 | Ainley, Henry | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 115 | Allen, Louise | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 38-40, 47, 69, 138, 150-151, 153, 190 | Allen, Viola | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 108-109 | Anglin, Margaret | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 87, 129, 137, 163, 194 | Arbuckle, Macklyn | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 147 | Archie, Will | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 133, 192-193 | Arden, Edwin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 36 | Arliss, George | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 78, 139 | Arthur, Julia | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 72 | Ashley, Minnie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144 | Barnabee, Henry Clay | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 186 | Barrison, Mabel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 181 | Barry Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 20, 37-38, 47, 174-175, 188 | Barrymore, Ethel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 148 | Barrymore, John | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 156 | Barrymore, Lionel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 156 | Barrymore, Maurice | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 47, 50, 78-79, 140-141, 165 | Bates, Blanche | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 79 | Belasco, David | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 45-47, 80, 121-123 | Bellew, Kyrle | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 58-59, 184 | Bernhardt, Sarah | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 116-117, 180 | Bingham, Amelia | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 101 | Block, Sheridan | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 55, 160, 194 | Bloodgood, Clara | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 69 | Booth, Edwin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 105 | Boucicault, Louise Thorndike | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 102 | Byron, Arthur | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 68 | Cahill, Marie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 166 | Calvé, Emma | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 15, 138 | Campbell, Mrs. Patrick | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 101, 180 | Carle, Richard | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 60-61 | Carter, Mrs. Leslie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 36 | Cartwright, Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 111 | Cassarant, Louis | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 147 | Cherry, Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 146 | Clark, Marguerite | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 179 | Cohan, George M. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 115, 148 | Collier, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 11, 148 | Comstock, Nanette | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 102 | Connor, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 167 | Conquest, Ida | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70, 173, 178 | Cook, Madge Carr | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 101 | Coquelin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 145 | Corrigan, Emmett | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 137 | Courtleigh, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144 | Cowles, Eugene | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 77, 131, 163 | Crane, William H. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 53-54 | Crosman, Henrietta | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 175 | D’Orsay, Lawrence | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144 | Daly, Nellie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 95, 115, 133, 188 | Daniels, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 40 | Davenport, Edgar | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103 | Davies, Phoebe | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 68 | Davis, Fay | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 93, 167 | Davis, Jessie Bartlett | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 30 | DeAngelis, Jefferson | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 124 | Dixey, Henry | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 193 | Doanne, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 180 | Dockstader, Lew | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 111 | Donaldson, Arthur | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 94 | Dressler, Marie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 48-50 | Drew, John | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 130 | Drew, Mrs. John (Louise Lane) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 137 | Drouet, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 106, 168-169 | Duse, Eleonara | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 93, 187 | Eames, Emma | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 25, 62-64, 112 | Edeson, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 97 | Edwardes, Paula | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 26-27, 173, 185 | Elliott, Gertrude | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 43-44, 120, 122, 170, 173 | Elliott, Maxine | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 110 | Elliott, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 137, 190-191 | Farnum, Dustin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 87 | Farnum, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 187 | Faust, Lotta | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 50-52, 140, 153 | Faversham, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66 | Fawcett, George | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 29-31, 74-76, 79 | Fealy, Maude | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 71 | Fields, Anna | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66, 156, 161, 165 | Fields, Lew | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 107 | Fields, W.C. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70 | Figman, Max | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 52 | Figman, Oscar | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 142 | Filkins, Grace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 75 | Fischer, Alice | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 29, 31, 33, 36, 38, 49, 57-58, 70, 75-76, 98 | Fiske, Minnie Maddern | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 136 | Fitch, Clyde | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 100 | Florence, Katherine (Mrs. Fritz Williams) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 26, 28-29, 138 | Forbes-Robertson, Johnston | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 179 | Four Cohans | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 94 | Fox, Della | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 95 | Foy, Edwin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 87, 103 | Friganza, Trixie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8 | Gallard, Bertha | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 152-153 | George, Grace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 67 | Gilbert, Mrs. George H. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 74-75, 195 | Gillette, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 44, 55, 134-135, 184 | Glaser, Lulu | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 93 | Golden, Grace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 120-122, 130 | Goodwin, Nat C. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 162 | Grey, Catherine | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144 | Guyer, Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8-9, 50, 65, 72, 98 | Hackett, James | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 145 | Hackett, Norman | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 141 | Haines, Robert T. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 71 | Hall, Alexandra | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 100 | Hall, Pauline | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70 | Hall, Thurston | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 186 | Hammond, Dorothy | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 4-7, 28 | Harned, Virginia (Mrs. E.H. Sothern) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 62 | Harwood, Harry | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 111, 144 | Haworth, Joseph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 101, 107, 119 | Hawtrey, Sir Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 147 | Haynes, Minna Gale | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 41-42, 74, 132, 166, 168, 191 | Held, Anna | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 142 | Henderson, Grace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 31, 170 | Hilliard, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 169 | Hitchcock, Raymond | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70, 169 | Hodge, William T. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 132 | Hoffman, Maud | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 26 | Holbrook, Florence | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 107, 130 | Holland, E.M. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 130 | Holland, Joseph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 110, 158-159, 194 | Hopper, Edna Wallace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103 | Hosmer, May | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 164 | Hunter, G.H. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 118 | Irving, Henry | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 48, 96-97, 188 | Irving, Isabel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 166 | Irwin, May | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66, 101, 147 | James, Louis | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 65 | James, Millie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 130-131 | Jefferson, Joseph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 25 | Johnson, Orrin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 67 | Jones, Mrs. W.G. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 157 | Keim, Adelaide | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 89, 102 | Kelcey, Herbert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 69, 107 | Kendall, Ezra | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 178 | Kilgour, Joseph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 179, 182 | Kimball, Grace | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 182 | Krieghoff, Bertha | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 82 | Lackaye, James | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 83 | Lackaye, Wilton | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 86-87 | Langtry, Lily | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 34, 182, 187 | Laughlin, Anna | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 106 | LeMoyne, Sarah Cowell | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 71 | Leslie, Elsie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 30, 49 | Lewis, Dave | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 69, 98, 171 | Loftus, Cissie (Cecelia) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 112 | Lorraine, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70 | Lowell, Helen | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 124 | MacDowell, Melbourne | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 55, 81 | Mack, Andrew | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 36 | Mack, William B | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 88 | Maginn, Bonnie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 69 | Mann, Louis | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 59-60, 72, 144-145, 165, 168 | Mannering, Mary | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 1-3, 26, 112, 149 | Mansfield, Richard | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 124, 163 | Mantell, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 16-18, 44, 82, 86, 99, 105, 119, 131, 172-173 | Marlowe, Julia | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 36, 54, 66, 95 | Mason, John | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 49 | Master Gabriel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70, 122 | Master Jaynes | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 91, 162 | Matthieson, Edith Wynne | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 185 | May, Edna | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 70 | McManns, May | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 153 | Miller, Agnes | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 108-109, 114, 151, 153, 180 | Miller, Henry | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 62 | Milliken, Sandol (fem.) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 51 | Millward, Jessie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144-145 | Mitchell, Doris | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 182, 187 | Montgomery, David | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103 | Morgan, D. Eloise | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 49, 99, 114 | Morgan, Edward | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 115 | Morris, Clara | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 55 | Morrison, Mabel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 161 | Moulan, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 146-148 | Nethersole, Olga | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 12 | Nielsen, Alice | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 90 | Nordica, Lillian | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 44, 72, 86 | Norris, William | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 90, 187 | Norwood, Adelaide | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 80 | O’Neill, James | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 106 | Oaker, Jane | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 81, 157 | Olcott, Chauncey | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 115, 132, 142 | Opp, Julie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 9 | Patti, Adelina | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8 | Perry, Albert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 181 | Pixley, Gus | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 162 | Plympton, Eben | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 123, 185 | Potter, Mrs. James Brown (Cora Urquhart) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 107 | Power, Tyrone | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 95, 100 | Quinlan, Gertrude | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 110 | Reed, Roland | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 19-21 | Rehan, Ada | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 131 | Rice, Fanny | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 126-127, 176-178 | Richaman, Charles | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 142 | Ring, Blanche | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 101 | Roberts, Franklin | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8 | Roberts, Theodore | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 22-24, 63, 106, 121, 192-193 | Robson, Eleanor | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 107, 125 | Robson, Stuart | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 108 | Rogers, Gus (Rogers Brothers) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 108 | Rogers, Max (Rogers Brothers) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 53, 128 | Ross, Thomas W. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 100 | Rush, Isadore (fem.) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 25 | Rushworth, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 54-56 | Russell, Annie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 32-34, 39, 49, 160-161 | Russell, Lillian | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103 | Russell, Sol Smith | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 50, 90, 165 | Scheff, Fritz | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 148 | Seabrook, Thomas Q. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8 | Seeley, James | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 164 | Selwyn, Edgar | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 94 | Sembrich, Marcella | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 24, 128 | Serrano, Vincent | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 89, 161 | Shannon, Effie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 159 | Simpson, Cheridah | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 11 | Skinner, Mrs. Otis (Maud Durbin?) | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 10-11, 116-117, 121, 150, 156 | Skinner, Otis | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 4-6, 28, 30, 48-49, 69, 71, 171, 184 | Sothern, Edward H. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66-67, 87, 167 | Spong, Hilda | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 136 | Stewart, William G. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 124 | Stoddard, J.H. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 182, 187 | Stone, Fred | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 144 | Stuart, Ralph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 110, 153, 169, 194 | Sykes, Jerome | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 131 | Taber, Robert | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 49, 70, 87, 122, 129, 135 | Taliaferro, Mabel | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 96-97, 186 | Tempest, Marie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 129 | Terry, Beatrice | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 162 | Terry, Edward | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 119 | Terry, Ellen | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 104, 160 | Tilley, Vesta | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 136 | Tree, Herbert Beerbohm | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 178 | Tynam, Brandon | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 154-155 | VanDresser, Marcia | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 8, 98 | Walker, Charlotte | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 71, 85, 90 | Walsh, Blanche | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66, 101 | Warde, Frederick | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 86 | Warfield, David | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 157 | Warrington, Anna | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 182 | Webb, Nella | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 66, 156, 161, 165 | Weber, Joseph | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 93 | Wentworth, Estelle | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 94, 96 | White, Ruth | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 145 | Wiehe, Charlotte | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 76 | Willard, E.S. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103, 114 | Williams, Fritz | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 11 | Wills, Nat M. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 130, 140 | Wilson, Francis | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 137 | Wilson, George W. | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 159 | Worthing, Frank | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103 | Wynn, Bessie | circa 1895-1910 |
| Box SBD | Page 103, 119 | Zabelle, Flora | circa 1895-1910 |
