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Image: John B. Hymer

Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo

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John B. Hymer

ca. 1905-1915
20th century
225 x 160 mm (8.9 x 6.3 in.)

Apeda, American

Object Type: photograph
Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print
Marks: Inscribed in blue ink on verso: “John B. Hymer 1420 B’way New York City, Room 237”; stamped, lower right: “Apeda N.Y.”; stamped on verso, lower left: “Apeda Studio Photographers 02 104 West 38th St., N.Y.”
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, p. 51; 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: 1981.27.5.27

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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: 225 x 160 mm (8.9 x 6.3 in.)

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