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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair and holding a newspaper in his lap. He is in front of a background of books. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "16" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_6
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair in front of a bookshelf background and holding a rolled newspaper. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "3" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_11
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee standing and holding a book. The background is comprised of bookshelves. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_9
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee standing and holding a book. The background is comprised of bookshelves. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_10
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee looking slightly to his right. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_11
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Hand coloring
Studio portraits
Double portraits
Barnabee, Clara George (1833-1917)
Description
An account of the resource
Hand-colored portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair with his wife, Clara, standing next to him. The corner reads: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_3
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
California
Clara George Barnabee
Color
Frederick Bushnell
Hand-colored
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1891
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Hand coloring
Studio portraits
Double portraits
Barnabee, Clara George (1833-1917)
Description
An account of the resource
Hand-colored photograph in which Henry Clay Barnabee sits on a carved bench with his wife, Clara, standing next to him. A forest is represented on the studio backdrop.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpeg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_4
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Bostonians
California
Clara George Barnabee
Color
Frederick Bushnell
Hand-colored
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee from the shoulders up.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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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1890
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_5
Language
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eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
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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
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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
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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.
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
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair, looking to his right, and holding a newspaper in his lap. He is in front of a background of books. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "4" is handwritten on the image.
Creator
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Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
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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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_7
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "33" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_8
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee standing next to a table with his hand on a book. He is in front of a background of bookshelves. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "6" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_9
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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3ba5e16378aea217a2cc2f10f08069b5
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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee standing next to a table, looking to his right, and holding a book in front of a background of bookshelves. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "5" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_10
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait in profile of Henry Clay Barnabee. The logo in the corner reads, "Bushnell / San Francisco / and Oakland" and "17" is handwritten on the image.
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
1890
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_12
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1890
19th Century
Black and White
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting on an ornate bench with columns in the background. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_7
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry clay Barnabee sitting on an ornate chair with bookshelves in the background. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_8
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee in profile. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_12
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee looking slightly to his right. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_13
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair and leaning on a table. He is holding a rolled up newspaper. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_14
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee by Frederick Bushnell, California, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Henry Clay Barnabee sitting in an ornate chair with a newspaper open in his lap. Photo is mounted on a mat with Bushnell's logo in the bottom right corner: "Bushnell / San Francisco and Oakland."
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
1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoA_4_15
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
California
Frederick Bushnell
Henry Clay Barnabee
Portrait
-
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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
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Title
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Photograph of Henry Clay Banabee with group at Florence Hotel, San Diego, California, 1893
Subject
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Barnabee, Henry Clay (1833-1917)
Women
Men
Group portraits
Description
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Black and white photograph of Henry Clay Barnabee with three unidentified men and three unidentified women at the Florence Hotel in San Diego, California. Inscription on the back of image reads: "I can't hold this heavenly smile much longer! / Florence Hotel San Diego Cal, / April 12 - 1893."
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1893
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoA_1_1
Language
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eng
1893
19th Century
Black and White
California
Florence Hotel
Henry Clay Barnabee
San Diego