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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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Chas H. Tompkins
ca. 1905-191520th century
203 x 127 mm (8 x 5 in.)
Terkelson & Henry, American
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Marks:
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: “Tompkins”; inscribed on verso: “Chas H. Tompkins”; inscribed with stamp on verso: “Winter Quarters, Oxford, Penna”; embossed on mat, lower right: “Terkelson & Henry 1220 Market St. San Francisco”
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:
1981.27.5.51
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- 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: 203 x 127 mm (8 x 5 in.)
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Credit Caption
Terkelson & Henry, American . Chas H. Tompkins, ca. 1905-1915. Gelatin silver print. image : 203 x 127 mm (8 x 5 in.). DAC accession number 1981.27.5.51. Gift of Ina and Philip S. Trager (BA Wesleyan 1956, DFA 2008), 1981. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .
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