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Two Actors,

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions (Image): 215 x 165 mm (8.5 x 6.5 in.)

Inscribed on verso: “April 23’

Accession number: 1981.27.5.70

Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Purchased by the donors from a secondhand store in Bridgeport, CT; possibly collected by owner or manager W.P. Heuritze of the Roanoke Theater (location presently untraced), or by several managers or theaters.

Bibliography: See object file for research on the collection by Laura Plageman (B.A. Wesleyan 1999) and Erika Greene (B.A. Wesleyan 1988).

Work Type: photograph

Related Works: From a group of 74 vaudeville photographs, DAC 1981.27.5.1 – 1981.27.5.74.

Keywords: Click a term to find other records with the same keyword.

• comedy
• theater (discipline)
• vaudeville
• actors

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