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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/3206
Louis Tracy
ca. 1905-191520th century
140 x 101 mm (5.5 x 4 in.)
Bushnell, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: “Photo #2”; inscribed in ink, center left: “1/2 sheet in 1-4 colors”; inscribed in ink, lower center: “Louis Tracy CALIFORNIA SINGER AND DANCING COMEDIAN”; inscribed on verso: “Louis Tracy”; inscribed in stamp, center right: “Bushnell S.F. CAL”
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:
1981.27.5.71
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- California - TGN 7007157
- comedy
- 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
- Western United States - TGN 4011500 (general region): Typically refers to states West of the Rocky Mountains (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California) and Texas. The term may also sometimes include the states above Texas (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma).
Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 140 x 101 mm (5.5 x 4 in.)
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Credit Caption
Bushnell, American . Louis Tracy, ca. 1905-1915. Gelatin silver print. image : 140 x 101 mm (5.5 x 4 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.71. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .