Rose Melville
Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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Rose Melville
ca. 1905-191520th century
140 x 99 mm (5.5 x 3.9 in.)
J. B. Wilson, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in pencil, upper center: “Rose Melville”; inscribed in red ink, lower right: “J.B. Wilson 389 State St. Chicago”
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 Laurie, pp. 228 and 322; 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:
1981.27.5.1
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- comedy
- music - The art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. [January 1995 scope note added. December 1991 related term added; related term 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: 140 x 99 mm (5.5 x 3.9 in.)
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Credit Caption
J. B. Wilson, American . Rose Melville, ca. 1905-1915. Gelatin silver print. image : 140 x 99 mm (5.5 x 3.9 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.1. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .