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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Eugene Cowles by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Cowles, Eugene (1860-1948)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Eugene Cowles of The Bostonians. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_27
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Eugene Cowles
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Eugene Cowles by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Cowles, Eugene (1860-1948)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Eugene Cowles of The Bostonians dressed in a suit and overcoat and holding a top hat and a cane. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_26
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Eugene Cowles
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Alice Nielsen by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nielsen, Alice (1872-1943)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Alice Nielsen in costume with an embellished dress and a feather-topped hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_25
19th Century
Alice Nielsen
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Alice Nielsen by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nielsen, Alice (1872-1943)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Alice Nielsen wearing a loose white blouse, a scarf tied around her head, and a wide-brimmed hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_24
19th Century
Alice Nielsen
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman dressed in costume, possibly as Robin Hood. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_23
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/5820254ded720f4947db4fdf6d0a5efc.jpg
0df24ecdd18317080fcdd917aefcf2ed
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman dressed in costume, possibly as Alan-a-Dale from "Robin Hood." Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_22
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/6841eccfc1a064dd7e6fad366d20e853.jpg
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman. She is dressed in costume with a shawl over her head. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_21
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/32804cba7e38256b150680205451ce2c.jpg
4a1dead2b3a1aa0c7d93ed155f1a46fb
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman. She is wearing a costume that includes a pointed hat and she is standing next to a small table with a plant. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_20
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman smiling and leaning her elbows on a small, round table. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_19
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/4071cea23aa5c59d8e03cceb101a8049.jpg
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman dressed in costume with a dagger at her waist. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_18
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/5a724c01f1c5cb1f2ed84f0578a9ace5.jpg
25ea5e7e1c7f8aec23165979a70488b4
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman dressed in costume as a nun. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_17
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/6fc0cbdabe419a0918028adf747d690c.jpg
b0cfdd4b18863228f2faeb9777807a8c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in costume with a black dress, corsetted top, and pointed hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_16
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified man by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Men
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified man wearing a suit and tie. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_15
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/7aaa4505644331d5370e35e71f59a172.jpg
7f1279e05d028ee4649005cefa35ea18
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a hat embellished with feathers. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_14
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/6e28b0cf9668e54df55d5e6164c1d375.jpg
864635d97efc81b9d21a34807b0623d5
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Reginald De Koven by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
De Koven, Reginald (1859-1920)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Reginald De Koven, the composer of "Robin Hood." Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_13
19th Century
Bostonians
Composer
Frederick Bushnell
Reginald De Koven
Robin Hood
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/ad58bf96ef8068c8fd847c13d3ab2215.jpg
bf036085d665560b5628c0dcb17f8266
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman with a flower- and tulle-embellished, off-the-shoulder dress. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1897-1898
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_12
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/41d7b1d793fafc87aa278ab3d9514f03.jpg
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
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The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman. She is holding flowers and sitting at a small table with an open book. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
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Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_11
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/ac7b00994de0ac0b6cfe0fa983f990ab.jpg
39ad9e5f9a3ea975df78b4dbf5fb3563
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified man in costume by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Men
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified man dressed in a costume consisting of a jacket, shawl, and bow tie. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_10
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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61b08f4fe1b68a1443f7228038afac4a
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Alan-a-Dale by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in costume as Alan-a-Dale from "Robin Hood." Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_9
19th Century
Alan-a-Dale
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Robin Hood
San Francisco
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/7a638355171e31a7b1a2a42e232d2652.jpg
1e82e1ce3aefc49f0e45fe9e450badf7
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis by Frederick Bushnell, California, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in a costume with a white blouse, vest, and large brimmed hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
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Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1897-1898
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_8
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Oakland
Portrait
San Francisco
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Title
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
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Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
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Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
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Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
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Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
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This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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Type
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The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
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Title
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Portrait of unidentified man by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
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Men
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
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Black and white portrait of an unidentified man dressed in a costume consisting of an embellished jacket, a hat, and tie. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
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Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1897-1898
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_7
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Portrait
San Francisco