Visual Materials

Volume 13 (1-130)

Description: The shows are unidentified; dates are included with the photographer imprints on the images.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1934-1936
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.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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.

photCL 487

Fanchon & Marco, Volume 13

Visual Materials

222 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 approximately 1932 to 1936. Some of the photographs include imprints for Archer's Art Shop, Irving Archer, and Irving Archer Studios of Hollywood, California, and a few have White Studio of New York City (see pages 204-205); two of the California Exposition at Balboa Park in San Diego, California, contain the imprint of John Sirgio (pages 22 and 24); and page 220 has the imprint of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 13 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

photCL 487

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.

photCL 487

Fanchon & Marco, Volume 5

Visual Materials

58 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 1930 to 1931. Pages 1-39 contain four images per page; Pages 40-58 contain one image per page. Many of the photographs include the imprint of photographer Curt Fox of Hollywood, California. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 5 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

photCL 487

Fanchon & Marco, Volume 8

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 from approximately 1931 to 1932. Some of the photographs include imprints for Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles and Archer's Studio of Hollywood, California. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 8 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

photCL 487

Fanchon & Marco, Volume 14

Visual Materials

106 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 approximately 1936 to 1938. The photographs include imprints for Irving Archer and Archer's Studios of Hollywood, California. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 14 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

photCL 487

Volume 13 (1-130)

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