Discovery
Description:
Theater: Cabinet Cards of Actors, 19th Century.
Fifty photographs, mostly cabinet cards, two very large, and one a stereoscopic view, some signed; images of the actors Sarah Bernhardt, Maud Adams, "Little Nell," Ellen Terry, Lillian Russell, Minnie Palmer, Rhea, Madge Lessing, and Carolina "La Belle" Otero, and others; housed in sleeves in a three-ring binder.
Estimate $200-300
Some cards are signed: Edna Wallace, Little Nell, J.V. Chauvave [?], Ada Rehan, Rhea, and Pauline Hall.
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