The Bimbos
Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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The Bimbos
ca. 1905-191520th century
204 x 152 mm (8 x 6 in.)
Kessler Photo, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: “Best wishes to manager from the Bimbos”; inscribed in black ink, lower left: “The Bimbo’s”; embossed, lower right: “Kessler Photo Empress Theatre L.A. 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:
1981.27.5.62
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
- California - TGN 7007157
- 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
- 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: 204 x 152 mm (8 x 6 in.)
DAC Downloadable Open Access Image
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Credit Caption
Kessler Photo, American . The Bimbos, ca. 1905-1915. Gelatin silver print. image : 204 x 152 mm (8 x 6 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.62. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .