Theater Ephemera: Theatrical Photographs and Autographs.

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Theater Ephemera: Theatrical Photographs and Autographs. Box of various items, containing nineteen tintypes, two in cloth cases, one in an embossed Bakelite case, and one daguerreotype in a lacquer case; two literary card games in boxes; thirteen turn-of-the 19th century pamphlets, including cook books, almanacs, and New York City material; disbound section of a German album with photographs of actors in character; a collection of twenty-three portraits of Mrs. Siddons removed from books, nine matted; seven black and white photographs of actors on the stage, including several of Isabel Irving, 10 1/2 x 13 in.; thirty-seven glossy 8 x 10 in. stills from Peter Brook's production of "Marat/Sade"; approximately fifty photographic portraits of actors, some by Downey, Dover, and Bassano, including Cyril Maude, Minnie Palmer, and Maude Adams; ten photographs of Molly Picon, 10 x 13 in.; twelve actor autographs and letters: Jack Benny, Lawrence Hutton, Eleanora de Cisneros, Forrest, Macready, Henry Irving, and others, some mounted and trimmed; thirty-four photographs of actors, mostly autographed, a few with stamped or photo-reproduced signatures, including Lew Fields, Joe Weber, Edward Kipling, the Koms sisters, Mary Anderson, Basil Sidney, Richard Bennett, Jane Wyatt, Otto Kruger, Mary Ellis, Ann Pennington, Alice Joyce, Katherine Grey, Johnny Marvin, Dorothy Hall, Henry Hall, Harry Lauder, Pauline Land; a large sepia-tone signed photographic portrait of Laurence Barrett, a matted sketch of Tommaso Salvini with a signed note, and others.
Estimate $600-800

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