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Title
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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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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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
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis and an unidentified woman named Clara by Hugo Broich, Milwaukee, 1891
Subject
The topic of the resource
Double portraits
Women
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis and an unidentified woman named Clara. Mat reads, "Hugo Broich / Milwaukee." Handwritten on the front: "Jessie [and] Clara. / "Aint we sweet?" Handwritten on the back: "July/91."
Creator
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Broich, Hugo (1831-1905)
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
1891-07
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_11
1891
19th Century
Black and White
Hugo Broich
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Milwaukee
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
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis by William McKenzie Morrison, Chicago
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis wearing a hat with feathers. Mat reads, "Jessie Bartlett-Davis / Morrison / Haymarket Theatre / 161 West Madison St. / Chicago." Handwritten on the image: "Off for the [illegible] / Your Jessie."
Creator
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Morrison, William McKenzie (1857-1927)
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
1891-1895
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_9
19th Century
Black and White
Chicago
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Portrait
William McKenzie Morrison
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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 Jessie Bartlett Davis by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in costume with a black dress, corsetted top, and pointed hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_16
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Portrait
San Francisco
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Alan-a-Dale by Frederick Bushnell, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in costume as Alan-a-Dale from "Robin Hood." Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_9
19th Century
Alan-a-Dale
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Robin Hood
San Francisco
-
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1e82e1ce3aefc49f0e45fe9e450badf7
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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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
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis by Frederick Bushnell, California, San Francisco
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed in a costume with a white blouse, vest, and large brimmed hat. Part of an album that reads, "Bostonians / Season 1897-98. / Bushnell / Fotografer / San Francisco, Cal."
Creator
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Bushnell, Frederick (1858-1903)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897-1898
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_9_8
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Frederick Bushnell
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Oakland
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis by I.W. Taber, San Francisco, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis holding a small bouquet of white flowers. Handwritten on the image: "With / love to / Mr. and Mrs. / Barnabee, from / Jessie Bartlett Davis. / 1895." Debossed in the corner: "Taber / S.F." Debossed on the mat: "Artist Proof / Photogravure."
Creator
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Taber, I.W. (1830-1912)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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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
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_7_6
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
I.W. Taber
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Photogravure
Portrait
San Francisco
-
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9997d63ed1f104b0cb8cc09609cc7a4d
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis, 1889
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis wearing Roman-style costume including an arm band and ribbons in her hair. Handwritten on image: "Lovingly yours / Jessie Bartlett Davis / 1889."
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
1889
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_5_4
1889
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Jessie Bartlett Davis
-
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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 Jessie Bartlett Davis, 1889
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Jessie Bartlett Davis wearing a checkered winter coat with a fur hat and muff. Handwritten on image: "My! But you're / a funny man Barnabee, / Jessie Bartlett Davis / 1889."
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1889
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_5_2
1889
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Jessie Bartlett Davis
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
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Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
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
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This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
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The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
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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
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Cynisca by Max Platz, Chicago, 1889
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis in costume as Cynisca from Pygmalion and Galatea. Handwritten on image: "Yours sincerely / Jessie Bartlett David / 1889 / 'O, heart foolish heart / than art loved no longer' / (Galatea)."
Creator
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Platz, Max (1850-1894)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1889
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_13
1889
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Chicago
Costume
Cynisca
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Max Platz
Portrait
Pymalion and Galatea
-
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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
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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 Jessie Bartlett Davis as Cynisca by Max Platz, Chicago, 1889
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis in costume as Cynisca from Pygmalion and Galatea. Handwritten on image: "Sincerely yours / Jessie Bartlett Davis / 1889 / 'I see it all I / have returned too soon.' / Galatea." On back of image: "Max Platz, / Photographer, / 88 N. Clark Street, / Chicago."
Creator
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Platz, Max (1850-1894)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1889
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_12
1889
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Chicago
Costume
Cynisca
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Max Platz
Portrait
Pymalion and Galatea
-
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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
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Alan-a-Dale by Benjamin J. Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis in costume as Alan-a-Dale from Robin Hood. Mat reads, "Jessie Bartlett Davis / Falk / 949 Broadway NY."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
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
1889-1896
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_10
19th Century
Alan-a-Dale
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Bostonians
Costume
Jessie Bartlett Davis
New York
Portrait
Robin Hood
-
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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.
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Still Image
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Title
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Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Dorothea by William McKenzie Morrison, Chicago, 1890
Subject
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Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
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Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis dressed as Dorothea from Don Quixote. Mat reads, "Morrison / Jessie Bartlett-Davis / Haymarket Theatre Building." Handwritten on back: "'Lost in a city, lost am I, / What can I do but sob and sigh.' (Dorothea 'Don Quixote') / With love from / Jessie. / Buffalo / 1890."
Creator
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Morrison, William McKenzie (1857-1927)
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
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_9
1890
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Chicago
Costume
Don Quixote
Dorothea
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Portrait
William McKenzie Morrison
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Title
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
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Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
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Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
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The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
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Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
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.
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
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This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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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.
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Still Image
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Title
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Portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis as Cynisca by William McKenzie Morrison, Chicago, 1890
Subject
The topic of the resource
Davis, Jessie Bartlett (1860-1905)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Jessie Bartlett Davis in costume as Cynisca from Pygmalion and Galatea. Mat reads, "Morrison / Jessie Bartlett Davis / Haymarket Theatre Building / 161 West Madison St." Handwritten on back of image: "'I know no half moods, / I am love or hate.' / (Cynisca) / With love to dear / Mr. and Mrs. Barnabee / Buffalo / 1890."
Creator
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Morrison, William McKenzie (1857-1927)
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
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_8
1890
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Chicago
Costume
Cynisca
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Portrait
Pygmalion and Galatea
William McKenzie Morrison