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21913Paris, Librairie théâtrale, artistique et littéraire, 1914. In-8, 78 pp., broché, couverture originale imprimée (petits manques, taches et déchirures marginales à la couverture, dos fendu, 1er cahier débroché).
17877(Ecrit sous le pseudonyme de Paul Smith). Paris, Labitte. 1844. Deux volumes in-8 (21x13). 384-366 pages. Demi-chagrin prune, dos à nerfs ornés de fleurons dorés (reliure fin 19°).
D19738Collection of approximately 20 real photo postcards most signed and many addressed to a Miss Florie Florrie Hopkins. First decade of the 20th century. Vaudeville performers. A delightful group. Also included is a large photo of a young woman dated Kansas City 1915. <br/><br/> unknown
1920List2734Unknown location 1920. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges very good contrast editorial overpainting on recto overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12â€. Very good. Julian Eltinge 1881/1883–1941 was an American actor and “female impersonatorâ€â€”in today’s terms a drag performer—from Newtonville Massachusetts. Eltinge’s drag career began at age ten and by the early 1900s he was touring internationally performing a vaudeville act wherein the “audience was completely deceived as to Eltinge’s sex until he removed his wigâ€1. This portrait shows Eltinge seated in costume. On the reverse is written “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12†and the front is signed “Herold Brown†this signature does not appear to belong to commercial photographer Harold M. Brown. A stamp is legible that dates the photograph to the 1920s though the exact year is not legible. Eltinge has been described as “without question the most famous female impersonator of all time†ibid.<br /> <br /> 1 Slide Anthony “Julian Eltinge†in The Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers Westport Connecticut: Arlington House 1981 46. unknown
192555679Kokomo IN & Lewiston ID: Lylburn B. Johnson 514 S. Webster ca. 1925-1933. Seven pieces. 1st - Folio. 11 x 14 in. Photo-illustrated broadside printed on thick card stock minor soiling very small and slight oil stain at upper fore-edge still VG; 2nd -- 8vo. 4 x 8 in. Four pieces printed on colour-tinted newsprint stock 1 w/ additional stamping minor toning edgewear; 3rd. - 16mo. 2.5 x 3.5 in. Photo-illust. on playing card by T.L. DeLand design on verso rounded corners NF; 4to. 2 x 4 in. photo-printed business card w/ lettering & address on recto illustration on verso NF. Fascinating small collection of exceedingly scarce promotional advertising for the Kokomo IN illusionist and magician Lylburn Johnson b. 1904. He performed with the Chautauqua Circuit between 1925 and 1929 and later on the vaudeville circuit throughout the Midwest and West for private clubs fundraisers vaudeville theaters and more. His act illustrated as illustrated on these pieces incorporated his double death defying feat of begin handcuffed and locked in a barrel full of water escaping from ropes tied to a chair as well as the Mysterious Mail Bag Escape in which he had been locked. In addition he would drive a car blindfolded perform illusions such as the floating woman floating ball and skull the burning cone of water and perform mind reading and spiritualist portions as well. One of the playbills specifically cites performing at the Legion Club House for a P.T.A. Benefit in Lewiston ID Friday Nov. 10 1933. Johnson was the only child of the noted Kokomo IN physician Dr. Oliver Johnson 1878-1927 and although continuing to list the family home as his place of residence and business on the advertising cards included here appears in no street directories trade directories or census records after 1910. No copies in Worldcat; See: Lylburn B. Johnson The Great Johnson with His Mysteries Brochures and Promotional Materials Redpath Chautauqua Collection Univ. of Iowa Special Collections No. MSC0150. Lylburn B. Johnson, 514 S. Webster, unknown
33409Paris: Chez Le Fuel n. d. 1st edition. Ca 1817. Bound in beautiful color printed silk onlays same design to front & back affixed to gold boards with floral motif panel affixed to spine. AEG. Slipcase also with color printed silk onlays. General wear to silk panels. One engraving protrudes slightly. A Very Good copy in a rubbed slipcase with 1 cm seam splits at slipcase opening. 4 209 5 pp. Printed by Didot. Engraved title with vignette. Illustrated with 8 full-page copperplate engravings. 1817 calendar at rear with engraved headpieces by Bosselman. 18mo in 6s. 4-5/8" x 3" 11.8 cm x 7.7 cm. <br/><br/>Quite scarce work compiling divers French theatrical pieces from 1792-1815. OCLC locates 4 cc worldwide with KVK adding a 5th. at the time of cataloging Chez Le Fuel hardcover books
184511299Paris, H. Fournier, 1845 ; cartonnage polychrome à fond noir représentant un personnage chinois fumant, en habit traditionnel doré rehaussé de rouge, bleu et blanc, fond décoré de scènes et objets symboliques, second plat à grand décor doré et vert, tranches dorées ; VI, (2), 396 pp., 50 planches hors-texte, nombreuses illustrations in-texte de tous formats, dessins de Auguste Borget.
190915615np: np 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong small 4to. commercial album produced by R.A. Leet and Co. Oakland California. Textured cloth covered stiff card boards. Measuring approximately 10.5" x 7". 44 cyanotype prints recto mounted to 10 black paper leaves. Remaining 15 leaves blank. Area of discolor to front board. 5 prints perished. Overall clean sound. Prints with occasional rubbing though overall well preserved. <br/><br/>A small archive of cyanotype photgraphs capturing primarily a mother and daughter members of a Vaudeville performance troop touring the Orpheum Circuit in the United States Pacific Northwest in 1909. Identified locations include Portland Seattle Spokane San Francisco and Oakland. A clear portrait captures a woman and young child standing beneath an Orpheum marquee in Spokane which lists acts for a Sunday July 25 1909 matinee performance including: Joseph Hart's Bathing Girls Mr. George Auger Carson and Willard Lew Bloom Moffett and Clare and Frank Rogers the colored ventriloquist. Additional images capture the troop members travelling with families and at rest. Of note is a clear shot showing George Auger who reportedly stodd nearly 8 feet tall towering above other members of the troop. np hardcover books
1880222891880. Photographs and printed ephemera of female stage performers dating from the 1880s through the 1910s document the emergence of women as visible figures within vaudeville and burlesque entertainment at a time when theatrical labor offered one of the few public professions available to working women. The archive identifies named performers including Gracie Wilson Jennie Joyce and Mlle. Marcia and records their presentation within commercial and studio imagery that circulated widely in mass print culture. These materials support research into women's history performance studies and the development of popular entertainment industries particularly the ways female performers navigated public visibility economic opportunity and gender norms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<br /> <br /> Archive consists of sixteen pieces including two sepia cabinet cards mounted on cardstock chromolithographic advertising trade cards hand colored and monochrome postcards and real photo postcards measuring approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches to 4.25 x 6.5 inches. The cabinet cards issued by Newsboy of New York include studio portraits of Jennie Joyce dressed in breeches and jacket and Gracie Wilson in a militarized costume with exposed legs both demonstrating the use of theatrical costume to construct stage identity. Additional items include postcards and trade cards depicting British and American burlesque performers in staged poses often accompanied by advertising text for commercial products such as barbershops and hair dressing parlors. Several pieces from series such as "British Burlesque Artists" present lithographed and photographic images of performers in theatrical settings including classical backdrops and studio interiors emphasizing pose costume and visual composition associated with stage publicity.<br /> <br /> These materials were produced during a period when mass printing technologies expanded the circulation of performer imagery allowing actresses and dancers to reach audiences beyond the theater through postcards and advertising media. The inclusion of cross gender costume stylized poses and commercial branding reflects the intersection of entertainment gender presentation and consumer culture in this period. Female performers used such imagery to establish recognizable personas while operating within a commercial system that marketed their appearance and performance. Light edge wear creasing and surface wear to some items with foxing present on certain advertising cards; overall very good condition. This archive provides concentrated visual and material evidence of women's participation in early popular entertainment and the commercial frameworks that shaped their public image. unknown
21911Paris, Librairie théâtrale, artistique et littéraire, 1914. In-8, 376 pp., broché, couverture originale imprimée (petits manques, taches et déchirures à la couverture, quelques rousseurs).
21912Paris, Librairie théâtrale, 1910. In-8, 280 pp., broché, couverture originale imprimée (petits manques, taches et déchirures marginales à la couverture, second plat détaché, marges empoussiérées).
22125reunis dans un volume IN4 reliure demi chagrin ,dos à faux nerfs titré,TE BOURR’ PAS l’CRANE revue en 2 actes ,janvier 1908,151p.- A C’ qu’ ON S’TORD, revue en 2 actes et un prologue 1909,non pagine 150p, -BEN ! QUOI D’NEUF;revue en 2 actes et 3 tableaux couplets et rondaux ,100p.
19285820Various locations 1928. Good. 28 leaves illustrated with seventy-five photographs and numerous ephemeral items. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black paper-covered boards string tied. Some chipping scuffing and soiling to boards. Contents worn and shaken with some leaves detached or trimmed some images detached. Still a lively collection. A unique vernacular photograph album and scrapbook documenting a couple of years of Strout's Military Hussar Band a notable sideshow act that toured the country in the early part of the 20th century. A newspaper clipping one of about thirty in the album describes the group: "one of the finest bands in the country is furnishing music at the fair and has already made a big hit with the visitors. In the bright red uniform of the Hussars the band makes an excellent appearance." Another clipping states that "This attraction a singing band of some 16 members is said to be one of the most pretentious organizations of its sort on tour this year." The photographs within are mostly portraits of the band members the majority of which have been shape-cut out of larger photographs. There are also group photographs of other circus performers and sideshow acts as well as some images capturing the after-effects of a train crash; the side of the train reads "D.D. Murphy Shows" a well-known promoter during this period with whom the Hussar Band apparently traveled. One of the more interesting group photographs is pasted on the inside front cover and shows seven large individuals next to a manuscript caption reading "World's Fattest Family."<br /> <br /> The ephemeral items peppered throughout the album include tickets to fairs in Beaumont Texas; Little Rock Arkansas; Fargo Minot and Devil's Lake North Dakota; Memphis Tennessee; and Sedalia Missouri. Other ephemeral items include a business card for the solo clarinet and saxophonist of Strout's Hussar Band Benne Kenner; other business and calling cards newspaper clippings and other clippings probably from magazines. unknown
17767597Sans lieu (Paris), sans nom, 1776 ; deux tomes ; suivi de "Les A propos de la Folie ou chansons grotesques, grivoises et annonces de parades". Sans lieu (Paris), sans nom, 1776. Ensemble de trois tomes in-8 ; demi-basane havane, dos à faux-nerfs dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison vert-sapin, plats de papier imitation cuir havane raciné, tranches marbrées (reliure début XIXe) ; (2) ff. blancs, X (dont titre gravé), 302 pp., (1) f. blanc ; 316 ; VI, 319, (1) pp. et en tout pour les tomes 1 et 2 : 1 titre gravé dessiné et gravé par Moreau, identique aux tomes 1 et 2, 2 figures hors-texte par Moreau, gravées par De Launay et Simonet, 2 vignettes et 2 culs-de-lampe par Moreau, gravés par Duclos, Martini et De Launay ; et au tome 3 : titre-frontispice, 1 figure, 1 vignette et 1 cul-de-lampe par Moreau, gravés par Martini.
60174Various places including Auburn New York early 20th century. Formerly framed; some items laid down on mat boards; generally very attractive. various sizes up to about 20 x 16 inches matted. 18 items including illustrated flyers advertising Milo Vagge and the Vagge Bag Punching Act original photographs of vaudeville acts with the blind-embossed stamp of the "White Hats Actor's Union of American and Associated Actresses of America" 4 photographs of other performers inscribed to the Vagges and 8 broadsides etc. featuring clog dancing comedy and musical bag punching steel top table dancing juggle lifting and posing the "High-class Irish Comedy 'The Wright and Mr. Wrong'" Novelty Acrobats comedy Boxers etc. hardcover
192059766Portland OR New York & Hollywood & Los Angeles CA: Earl Mossman Revue and Productions ACME Commercial Studio Allara Blixt Braun Bruno Allen J. De Lay Photo-Art Commercial Studio et al ca. 1920-1976. Three vols. Thick 4to. 179; 124; 117 leaves unnumbered. all archival mylar sleeves some 2-pocket for 5 x 7 in. material most for holding 8 x 10 in. images. With 425 photographs sized from 4 x 4 in. up to 8 x 10 in. over 90% are 8 x 10 in. most images w/ photographer’s imprints on versos many w/ pencil annotations editing notes camera-ready copy several are negative contact print sheets a few colour images many are signed some have minor tears or creasing a few show remnants of old scrapbook leaves together with several newspaper and magazine clippings printed promotions holiday leaflets. All preserved in three black cloth 3-ring clamshell binders an excellent archive. This unequaled archive of photographs chronicling the successful and colourful Vaudeville and entertainment career of Earl Mossman reveals wealth of musical and theatrical history from the Pacific Northwest during first album in this archive is largely devoted to Earl Mossman’s contributions and managing of his the first half of the 20th Century as well as impact on historic events. The chorus-line all-girl revue shows at the Frontier Village during the 100 day run of the Oregon Centennial Exposition. This re-created town from the 1870’s Old West featured the Golden Nugget dance hall & saloon as well as livery stable church post office and hotel and proved to be the most successful attraction. Mossman’s Can-Can girls put on daily shows and held dances where the daringly dressed women would dance with visitors and hired actors. The 1859-1959 Centennial Exposition lasted from June 10 to Sept. 17 on 65 acres along the Columbia River formerly Vanport wiped away in the tragic 1948 flood and also featured a Gayway Amusement Park Garden of Tomorrow & Adventureland. The photos depict not only Mossman’s Can-Can girl revue but also steam locomotives Modernist sculptures and murals by Louis Bunce and other Oregon artists as well as photos of the Mid-Century Modern Lumber Industry Pavilion and the striking Hall of Religious History in the Garden of Tomorrow which featured murals of Carl Morris. Also shown are neon sculptures the filled arena showing the opening ceremonies which featured actor Raymond Burr as master of ceremonies the Nelson Picket Dancers the Golden Nugget and Frontier Trading Post from the air and more. The second album includes as well more images from the Centennial as well as many from Earl Mossman’s “Productions†talent agency and entertainment group who supplied vaudeville dance and music acts such as Beverly Short Eleanor Malcolm Gary Marvin Ginger McClane Gwen Gibson Jerry Brown Freddie Keller’s Orchestra and Maury Meriweather’s Band to Portland OR and surrounding Pacific Northwest clubs and venues. Photos included here depict as well the Nelson Pickett Dancers The Glenns “originating new tricks in a dancing mood;†The Carsony Brothers; the Earl Mossman Girls featuring models from the Gloria LaVonne modeling agency; along with Walter Blacke Jacqueline Clark Earl Mossman’s Dolls for “Delta Dome†and more. Other notable names include Billy Daniels d. 1988 with photos of his ‘The Masculine Touch†recorded live at the Mocambo on the Sunset Strip well-known African-American singer form the mid-1930’s to 1986 who launched his career in the Harlem Renaissance; along with Jeanne Gayle who sang with Bob Crosby and starred in the Great Gildersleeve 1954 Jack Nagel and even Shirley of the Hoti PocaDot Bikini Contest.The many photos also depict Mossman meeting and greeting celebrities rolling into Portland running for mayor of Portland OR he never won: touting and promoting the “Straw hat day May 15†by not only wearing straw hats himself but inducing his all-girl revues to wear as well along with leading parades including the 1972 Merrykhana Parade where he was appointed “King of the Parade.†Many of the images show him with many different canes drawn from his large collection signing contracts for the American Legion seated in limousines and Porsches and even attending dinners. One photo includes dinner guests of Miracle Oxygen which featured the editor of The Oregonian Dick Nokes Paul Hauron stage feature writer the Todds and others. Of additional interest are the photos of Mossman showing off his scrapbook filled with images from his long career as well as images while convalescing with his bevy of beauties in the Shriner’s Hospital in Portland OR. Mossman 1894-1976 was an Oregon native and grandson of Isaac Mossman who had fought in the 1855-1856 Indian Wars rode with the Washington Territory’s Pony Express out of Walla Walla and was the first Washington Territorial librarian in 1870. Earl Mossman began running away from home as a young boy to perform in taverns and saloons in downtown Portland later worked for Pacific Power & Light Co. as an office boy and in 1913 after marrying his childhood sweetheart Catherine Groos launched his career on the Vaudeville Circuit. He initially played with the Basco Comedy Co. and later with Connie & Mack’s and the Bert Levy Circuit. Walter Winchell coined him as the “Beau Brummel of Broadway†during the 1920’s and by the 1930’s was performing with Norma Lawton in Broadway productions such as “The Dancing Producer†and performed with his partner Ray Vance at the Lotus Isle Amusement Park and the Peacock Ballroom. He would marry five different times performed at civic activities Rose Festivals and beauty pageants across the Pacific Northwest.Over half the photographs in this collection were shot by Allen J. De Lay photographer with The Oregonian from 1947 until the newspaper strike of 1960 who was not only an extraordinary photographer but also musician and competitive swimmer. He is perhaps best remembered for his photographs of the darker seamier side of Portland in the post-World War II era. Other Oregon photographers represented include Maxwell Allara Paul Blixt Kirk Braun Bill Gray Hodge Kennell-Ellis Verne Lewis Alfred Monner Dick Slater Don Thompson Donald Wilson and others. Of particular interest are noted theatrical photographers such as Bruno in Hollywood and James J. Kriegsmann 1909-1994 celebrity & theatrical photographer from 1929 to the 1980’s. We could find no similar archive of Mossman related photos in any institutional holdings except for a few images. See: Ellis Lucia Earl Mossman Oral History Recording pacific University Archives 1914-1918 Washington County Oral Histories; Walkathons - Dance Marathons Al Painter’s Lotus Isle Walkathon Organization PDX History 2022; David Kludas Centennial Exposition of 1959 Oregon Encyclopedia 2022. Earl Mossman Revue, and Productions, ACME Commercial Studio, Allara, Blixt, Braun, Bruno, Allen J. De Lay, Photo-Art Commercial hardcover