Julia Marlowe.
- Description
- Portraits
- Creator
- Marlowe, Julia, 1865-1950 (actor)
- Form
- black-and-white photographs
- Date
- circa possibly 1899
- Collection
- Furness Theatrical Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 16.5 x 11.0 cm.
- Notes
- Notes about Julia Marlowe: Born in England, Marlowe came to America in 1870 and became a star when she appeared as Juliet in New York in 1887. Edward H. Sothern and Marlowe began a collaboration in Romeo and Juliet at the Illinois Theatre, Chicago, 1904, and eventually married. They played together as Beatrice and Benedick, Ophelia and Hamlet, Katherine and Petruchio, Viola and Malvolio, Portia and Shylock, and the Macbeths. Both were good friends of Horace Howard Furness.
- Ye Rose Studio 385 Westminster St., Providence, R.I. Duplicates can be ordered at studio.
- Verso reads: "Portraits by photography Ye Rose Studio elegantly appointed specialty high class portraits from cabinet to life size Providence R.I. Conrad Building (elevator.) Opened June 1886." Includes a blank protective sleeve. Previously housed in "Collection of photographs of Julia Marlowe", Gift of Miss R. Kirtland. Call number RBC 812H M347K.
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness, P/Ma625.42 S, Small Box
- Provenance
- Gift of Miss R. Kirtland
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Still Image
- Identifier
- (FURNESSTHEATER)furness_pma625_42_s
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