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Subject Source: Fast

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin Booth papers

 Collection — Box BW-13: [Barcode: 31151030055580]
Identifier: MS-0253
Scope and Contents

Collection consists largely of clippings related to Edwin Booth and other 19th century actors. Booth items include notice of a birthday celebration in Baltimore (1898), and the dedication of a memorial window in a church in New York City (1898). Also included are orbituaries of other actors of the period: Stuart Robson, John Sleeper Clarke and Creston Clarke. A photograph of John Wilkes Booth and a clipping describing Greenmount cemetery, where Booth is buried.

Dates: 1890-1940

Harriet L. Lagowitz autograph albums

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030051688]
Identifier: MS-0170
Abstract

Harriet L. Lagowitz was a resident of New York city in the late nineteenth century. The collection (1877-1890) is formed by two autograph albums and approximately 80 envelopes containing the autographs of theater and stage performers.

Dates: 1877-1890

Moncure-Lyne Family scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030044279]
Identifier: MS-0171
Abstract

The collection (1897-1943) consists of three scrapbooks, the subjects of which are the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe. The scrapbooks were compiled by Cassandra Moncure Lyne (born 1875) in collaboration with her mother, also named Cassandra Moncure Lyne (1845-1934).

Dates: 1897-1943