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Image: Billy H. Marse

Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo

Bookmark (persistent url): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/13048

Billy H. Marse

ca. 1913
20th century
235 x 172 mm (9.3 x 6.8 in.)

Sommer Studio, American

Object Type: photograph
Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print
Marks: Inscribed in ink, lower right: “Billy H. Marse 12/24/13”; inscribed, lower right: “Sommer Phila”
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: 1981.27.5.4

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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: 235 x 172 mm (9.3 x 6.8 in.)

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