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Wilton Lackaye – Esther Palliser


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    Manuscripts

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    Manuscripts

    Includes the Lilliputians, a children's acting troupe; Helena Modjeska; and temperance activist Caroline "Carrie" Amelia Nation. Several Little people are also represented here: Countess Magri, Count Primo Magri, Baron Magri, and Miss Cora Mite.

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    Theatre and drama souvenir programs

    Manuscripts

    Includes programs for: Marie La Salle-Rabinoff, Madame Helena Modjeska, Lillian Burkhart, Florodora, Kyrle Bellew, Mary Mannering, William Tell, Ina Claire, Evelyn Laye, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and others.

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    Esther Palliser to Edith Millar

    Manuscripts

    This collection primarily contains letters addressed to Eric George Millar and Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell from various literary figures, artists, designers, musicians, scientists, librarians, and illustrators. There are two manuscripts concerning Phoebe Stabler, an English sculptor, along with seventeen pieces of ephemera relating to Stabler. There is also a volume compiled by Eric George Millar containing miscellaneous items relating to John Downman, a Welsh portrait and subject painter.

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    Opid, Adolf (1838-1892). 11 letters and 1 document

    Manuscripts

    Letters in Polish chiefly written from Krakow, Poland, consisting of: 1869 December 4 letter to Helena Modjeska; 1870 March 19 letter to his mother, Jozefa Bendow; 1871 March 19 letter to his mother; 1871 August 14 letter to Helena Modjeska; 1874 April 18 letter to Helena; 1875 July 24 to Charles Bozenta Chlapowski; 187[6?] November 13 letter to Helena Modjeska; undated letter to Helena Modjeska and her husband; 1878 July 18 letter to "Moi Kochani"; two undated letters to Helena Modjeska; 1888 document signed by Adolf Opid.

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    Helena Modjeska portraits (6 items)

    Manuscripts

    6 portrait photographs of Helena Modjeska consisting of: Studio portrait of Modjeska in costume wearing a headdress, approximately 1890s. Imprint of Louis Thors, San Francisco. Studio portrait of Modjeska sitting in profile. Undated. Studio portrait of Modjeska in profile. Signed "Waters 1907." 2 copies of "Madam Modjeska at her So. Cal Home, Art Supplement with Los Angeles Times May 5th 1907." "Helena Modrezjewska-Chłapowska..." memorial card, 11.5 x 8 cm, with printed text in Polish and photograph of Modjeska as younger woman, approximately 1909.

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