Visual Materials

Volume 9 (1-85)

Description: Contents list based on pencil identifications on photograph backs.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1932
Call number: photCL 487
Creator: Fanchon & Marco(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sandra Holden and William H. Simon, Jr., July 2008.; gift of Faye Hueston, 2013.; gift of Sandra Holden, January 2023.
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Volume 13 (131-222)

Visual Materials

Dates written on images. The images are primarily unidentified, though most of items 152 to 222 have dance, stage, and lighting directions in typescript on the backs of the photographs. Gloria Wolff Holden, Marco's daughter, is identified in items 132 and 140.

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Fanchon & Marco, Volume 10

Visual Materials

75 album pages, each containing an 8 x 10-inch photograph depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed from around 1932. No photographers are identified on the images. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 10 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

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Fanchon & Marco, Volume 12

Visual Materials

87 album pages, each containing an 8 x 10-inch photograph depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed around 1932. Some of the photographs include imprints for Irving Archer of Hollywood, California and Talbot of New York (on the "Girl Trouble" images). The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 12 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

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Volume 13 (1-130)

Visual Materials

The shows are unidentified; dates are included with the photographer imprints on the images.

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Fanchon & Marco, Volume 1

Visual Materials

114 album pages, each with four photographs per page, depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas" were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed from approximately 1924 to 1928. Identified photographers include Harry Wenger and Weaver of Los Angeles and H.W. Steward of San Francisco. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 1 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

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Fanchon & Marco, Volume 7

Visual Materials

76 album pages, each containing an 8 x 10-inch photograph depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed from around 1931. No photographers are identified in this volume. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 7 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

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Volume 9 (1-85)

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