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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
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
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of John Ernest McCann by Napoleon Sarony, New York, 1894
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
McCann, John Ernest
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of songwriter and playwright John Ernest McCann. Handwritten on image: "Dear / Henry Clay / Barnabee: / Yours, this side of / Heaven, and a [illegible] side / of Hell, John Ernest McCann. / April 18, 1894." Mat reads, "Sarony / 37 Union Sqr, N.Y." Back reads, "Sarony / Gold Medal Paris, 1878. / 37 Union Square, / New York. / Negatives preserved, duplicates may be / obtained at a ny time. / Elevator from the street."
Creator
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Sarony, Napoleon (1821-1896)
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
1894-04-18
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_17
1894
19th Century
Black and White
John Ernest McCann
Napoleon Sarony
New York
Portrait
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Madeleine Bouton by Jacob Schloss, New York, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Bouton, Madeleine
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of theater actress Madeleine Bouton wearing an embellished collar and multiple rings on her hand. Mat reads, "Madeleine Bouton / Schloss / 54 West 23d St. / New York." Handwritten on the mat: "1895."
Creator
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Schloss, Jacob (1856-1938)
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
1895
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_16
19th Century
Black and White
Jacob Schloss
Madeleine Bouton
New York
Portrait
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Paul Arthur by Benjamin Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Arthur, Paul
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of theater actor Paul Arthur. Mat reads, "Paul Arthur / Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y." Handwritten on the front: "Thine / Paul Arthur." Handwritten on the back: "To Mr [and] Mrs HC Barnabee / with the [illegible] regard / of their friend / Paul Arthur."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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
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_14
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
New York
Paul Arthur
Portrait
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of an unidentified woman by George Gardner Rockwood, New York, 1898
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Women
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman. Photographer's logo is debossed on the mat and reads, "Rockwood / 1440 Broadway / New York." Handwritten on the image: "To my dear friends / Mr. and Mrs. Barnabee / with ever so much love / from Jennie [illegible] / '98."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Rockwood, George Gardner (1832-1911)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1898
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_13
1898
19th Century
Black and White
George Gardner Rockwell
New York
Portrait
-
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9ad9afa1e0ef2a37cdab7b0694537fae
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
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder and Louis de Valois Wilder by Benjamin Falk, New York, 1892
Subject
The topic of the resource
Double portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859-1915) and his father Louis de Valois Wilder (1817-1911) wearing suits. Mat reads, "Comrades / Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y." Handwritten on the image: "Father and I / Marshall [illegible] / 1892."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
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
1892
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_6_8
1892
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
New York
Portrait
-
https://portsmouthexhibits.org/files/original/c26c0e55d25dfbde743baf41347744d8.jpg
c35c5bcd5b428fc47e03f100a5df0d20
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 Maud Morgan by Benjamin Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Morgan, Maud
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of harpist Maud Morgan. Mat reads, "Falk / 947-951 Broadway, N.Y." Handwritten on the back: "Maud Morgan."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
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
1891-1895
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_6_5
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Harpist
Maud Morgan
New York
Portrait
-
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a4fc58bf1cbf77ac7830dccbe3920d9e
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 Leopold Damrosch by Benjamin Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Single-sitter portraits
Damrosch, Leopold (1832-1885)
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of composer Dr. Leopold Damrosch dressed in a suit. Mat reads, "Falk / 949 Broadway, N.Y." Handwritten on the back: "Dr Dainroseh."
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
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_1
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Composer
Leopold Damrosch
New York
Portrait
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified woman by Warren H. Hazer, Syracuse, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified woman with her hair pulled back, wearing a white top and beaded necklace. Mat reads, "Hazer / Extra Finish / Syracuse N."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hazer, Warren H.
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1895-1897
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_7_3
19th Century
Black and White
New York
Portrait
Warren H. Hazer
-
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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 Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
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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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Title
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Portrait of Anna Robinson by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1896
Subject
The topic of the resource
Robinson, Anna
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Anna Robinson wearing a white dress with a ruffled shawl and feathered hat and holding a staff. Handwritten on image: " To Mr. and Mrs. Barnabee / Cordially Yours / Anna Robinson / Oct. 19th, 96." Mat reads, "Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1896-10-19
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_9
1896
19th Century
Anna Robinson
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
New York
-
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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
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Portrait of unidentified woman by Benjamin J. Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Women, Single-sitter portraits, Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of an unidentified woman wearing a gown, long necklaces, and gloves, and holding a pair of glasses as she leans on a stone pillar. Mat reads, "Falk / 13 & 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1884-1894
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_7
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
New York
-
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937c2e774b2bd70d04ff310dcaf9e8db
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
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Portrait of Maud Ulmer as Maid Marian by George Prince, 1895
Subject
The topic of the resource
Ulmer, Maud
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white photograph of Maud Ulmer dressed as Maid Marian and posing next to a chair and potted plant. Handwritten on image: "Maud Ulmer / To / Uncle Henry and Auntie Clara / Maid Marian / 1895." Mat reads, "Maud Ulmer / Prince / 31 Union Square / New York / Penn. Ave. & 11th St. / Wash D.C."
Creator
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Prince, George
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
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_5_6
1895
19th Century
Black and White
Costume
George Prince
Maid Marian
Maud Ulmer
New York
Washington D.C.
-
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3ff351408d528befa71e46062478102d
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 Arlando Harley by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1893
Subject
The topic of the resource
Harley, Arlando
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Arlando Harley wearing a suit and tie with a fur overcoat. Mat reads, "Falk / 13 & 15 West 24th St., N.Y. / Madison Square." Handwritten on the back: "Arlando Harley / 1893."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1893
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_5_3
1893
19th Century
Arlando Harly
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
New York
Portrait
-
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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
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
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Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
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These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
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The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
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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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Title
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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
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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
1889-1896
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
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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8f027c916b8392cf23fc64880adbd67a
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
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of unidentified man by Benjamin J. Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Men
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of an unidentified man in theatrical costume with light, curly hair and a decorative hat with feathers. Mat reads, "Falk / 13 & 15 24th St. NY / Madison Square."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
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
1889-1896
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Language
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eng
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_4_7
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Costume
New York
Portrait
-
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2611a24900bf5d44845a7b3d4d59be69
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 Edwin W. Hoff as Robin Hood by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1891
Subject
The topic of the resource
Hoff, Edwin W.
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Edwin W. Hoff as Robin Hood. He is posing with a finger pointing up and holding a horn. Mat reads, "Falk / 949 Broadway, N.Y." On the back: "Dec. 19, 1891."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
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
1891-12-19
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_1
1891
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Bostonians
Edwin W. Hoff
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.
--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 Katherine Grey as Helen Berry by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1894
Subject
The topic of the resource
Grey, Katherine (1873-1950)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Katherine Grey in costume as Helen Berry from "Shore Acres." Handwritten on the image: "Affectionately yours / Katherine / To Aunt Clara + Uncle Henry." Mat reads, "Katherine Grey. / Falk / 13 & 15 West 24th St. NY." Handwritten on the back: "May 1894 / Shore Acres / Helen Berry."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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
1894
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_2_8
1894
19th Century
Benjamin J. Falk
Black and White
Costume
Helen Berry
Katherine Grey
New York
Shores Acres
-
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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 Marie Stone by William A. Robinson and Alfred J. Roe, 1888
Subject
The topic of the resource
Stone, Marie
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Marie Stone wearing a sleeveless dress embellished with flowers and gathers, long gloves, and a hat topped with flowers. Mat reads, "Robinson and Roe / 77 & 79 Clark St. Chicago / 54 W. 14th St. New York." Handwritten on the back: "May 1888."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Robinson, William A.
Roe, Alfred J.
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
1888-05
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_2_5
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1888
19th Century
Black and White
Bostonians
Chicago
Costume
Marie Stone
New York
Portrait
Prima Donna
Robinson and Roe
-
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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 Joseph Jefferson by Benjamin J. Falk, New York
Subject
The topic of the resource
Jefferson, Joseph (1829-1905)
Single-sitter portraits
Studio portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905) wearing a suit jacket with a bow tied around his neck. Mat reads, "Joseph Jefferson / Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Henry Clay Barnanbee Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_1_38
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Benjamin J. Falk
Joseph Jefferson
New York
Portrait
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Put whatever you want in here.
--title::Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
--text::The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
--images::2125,2120
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Portrait of Julia Marlowe by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1894
Subject
The topic of the resource
Marlowe-Taber, Julia (1866-1950)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
An account of the resource
Black and white portrait of Julia Marlowe dressed in costume with a sword and fez-style hat. Mat reads, "Julia Marlow. / Copyright 1894 by B.J. Falk, N.Y. / Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square." Handwritten in the corner: "286 / (1894)."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
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
1894
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Jpg derived from Tif
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
StillImage
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PPL2017IIPhotoB_1_18
Language
A language of the resource
eng
1894
19th Century
Benjamin Falk
Black and White
Julia Marlowe-Taber
New York
Portrait
-
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Subject
The topic of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee
Description
An account of the resource
Henry Clay Barnabee was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1833, the son of a stage-driver turned innkeeper in Portsmouth. At the age of twenty, Barnabee moved to Boston, where he worked in the dry goods business while also pursuing acting and amateur singing. In 1859, he married Clara George of Portsmouth in Warner, New Hampshire, where her family originated. They made their home in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1865, Barnabee made his formal performance debut and began touring New England with a concert troupe. In 1878, he joined the Boston Ideals, a group formed to present Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S Pinafore, though the Ideals would go on to perform other operettas. Barnabee and two other actors from the Boston Ideals formed the Bostonians in 1887. The latter group toured widely, making a number of transcontinental trips, until it finally disbanded in 1904. Its mainstay production was Smith and DeKoven’s comic opera, Robin Hood, in which Barnabee played the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Clara George Barnabee died in 1906, the year in which Barnabee’s career essentially ended. Henry Clay Barnabee published his autobiography, My Wanderings, in 1913 and died in 1917.
According to the Library Trustee Meeting Minutes Volume, Dec. 1883 – Oct. 1939, page 62, meeting of September 24, 1907, the Henry Clay Barnabee Collection was offered to Portsmouth Public Library in September of 1907 by Barnabee himself. The Library Trustees accepted the gift and were to confer with Barnabee about his wishes for the collection. An article in the States and Union newspaper, September 9, 1909, leads one to wonder when the collection actually physically arrived at the Library. Plans were being made at that time to house the collection in a special room described in great detail in the article. Barnabee was working on an exhibition to be mounted in the Library in 1909. It is unclear from available materials if that exhibition ever materialized or if the collection was even on site at that time.
The original collection was assembled between 1866 and 1906 by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee. Some of the collection was reportedly transferred to the Lamb Club in New York City according to Hannah Fernald in 1943, as quoted in the Portsmouth Herald April 23, 1943. The current collection consists of approximately 10 linear feet of materials, including scrapbooks, photograph albums, loose photographs, musical scores, and books, as well as a small number of other loose items such as a large daguerreotype of a child (probably Barnabee) and two framed watercolors of Barnabee in costume. Most of the material dates from 1866-1906. There are a few items before and after that range, most notably the program from a testimonial held in Barnabee’s honor in Boston during March of 1907. It is arranged in eight series, outlined in a series-level finding aid.
The collection was arranged by Woodard D. Openo, an Archives student in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the time, in the fall of 1995. Library staff and Simmons College interns have been working on a detailed finding aid since spring of 2010. During the spring of 2014, the New England Archivists Community Outreach Project spent time indexing and scanning parts of the Barnabee collection. In 2018, funds from the Rosamond Thaxter Foundation were procured for the specific use of cleaning and rehousing items from Box Series II B. 1-9 and Box VII Libretto Series.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
The collection was assembled by Henry Clay Barnabee and his wife, Clara George Barnabee between 1866 and 1906. It was donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909 by Henry Clay Barnabee, himself.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
Donated to the Portsmouth Public Library between 1907 and 1909.
Collection arranged, 1995.
Finding aid created, 2010.
Collection partially indexed and scanned, 2014.
Grant funds procured for a collection-level assessment by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), 2015.
Grant funds procured for the cleaning and re-housing of the collection, 2018.
Digital collection created in OMEKA, 2019.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Collected by Henry Clay Barnabee and Clara George Barnabee.
Arranged by Woodard D. Openo, 1995.
Digitized by Nicole Luongo Cloutier, Jessica Ross, Alexa Moore with assistance from Portsmouth Public Library volunteers and the New England Archivists Community Outreach Program, 2010-2017.
Omeka addition and metadata by Katie Czajkowski. Poleena Vassiliev, and Robyn Nielsen.
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
These images are intended for research and reference use only. The library holds copyright to the digital images of this collection. Please see the copyright information page (link at bottom of page) for information about obtaining permission for image use and reproduction.
Relation
A related resource
This is a small part of a larger collection. Other items from the collection may be viewed by contacting Special Collections at the Portsmouth Public Library. Note that viewing of the physical collection is at the discretion of the Library staff. Some pieces of the collection may be deemed too fragile for in-person viewing.
Additional parts of the collection will be scanned and added to the digital archive at a later time.
Vertical Files in the Special Collections Room contain historical information about Henry Clay Barnabee.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
The images appearing in this database are JPG format, they are derived from archival TIF files.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
The Henry Clay Barnabee Collection is comprised of scrapbooks, albums, photographs, musical scores, books, a daguerreotype, and watercolors.
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--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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Title
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Portrait of Maud Jeffries by Napoleon Sarony, New York
Subject
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Jeffries, Maud (1869-1946)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
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Black and white portrait of Maud Jeffries with her hand on a chair. Mat reads, "Maud Jeffries / Sarony / 37 Union Sqr., N.Y."
Creator
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Sarony, Napoleon (1821-1896)
Source
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Henry Barnabee Clay Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_1_15
Language
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eng
19th Century
Black and White
Maud Jeffries
Napoleon Sarony
New York
Portrait
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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.
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.
Type
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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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Title
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Portrait of Pauline Hall by Benjamin J. Falk, New York, 1892
Subject
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Hall, Pauline (1860-1919)
Studio portraits
Single-sitter portraits
Description
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Black and white portrait of Pauline Hall. Mat reads, "Pauline Hall / Falk / 13 and 15 West 24th St. N.Y. / Madison Square." In the corner of the image, "22" is handwritten and a small printed square reads, "1892 / Copyright / By B.J. Falk / New York."
Creator
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Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925)
Source
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Henry Clay Barnabee Collection
Publisher
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Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Date
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1892
Format
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Jpg derived from Tif
Type
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StillImage
Identifier
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PPL2017IIPhotoB_1_14
Language
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eng
1892
19th Century
Benjamin Falk
Black and White
New York
Pauline Hall
Portrait
Prima Donna