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Carl Ritter


Image: Carl Ritter

Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo

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Carl Ritter

ca. 1905-1915
20th century
145 x 105 mm (5.7 x 4.1 in.)

Sommer Studio, American

Object Type: photograph
Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print
Marks: Inscribed in pencil on verso: “Carl Ritter #2 Ritter”; inscribed in pencil, upper center: [part ripped off] “Ritter”; embossed on mat, lower right: “The Sommer Studio 210 N. 8th St. ---PHILA”
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).
Credit Line: Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981
Accession Number: 1981.27.5.48

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This object has the following keywords:
  • blackface entertainers - From TGM: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/tgm/item/tgm001074
  • comedy
  • race (concept) - Identification of a group of people as distinct from other groups on the basis of physical or socially defined characteristics, such as language. [May 1995 descriptor added.]
  • theater (discipline) - Use for the professionally oriented study of theater, involving training, practice, and study in the processes of doing theater. For the academically oriented study of theater, use "drama." [August 1995 descriptor changed, was "theater". April 1993 related term added.]
  • vaudeville - LC sh 85142419

Dimensions
  • image Dimensions: 145 x 105 mm (5.7 x 4.1 in.)

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