Overview
Photographs of American actress, Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh.
Dates
- Creation: 1862-1911
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 box)Includes photographs, tintypes, cartes-de-visites, and cabinet photographs. Photographers include: Byron (New York), Falk (New York), Foley (New York), Frank C. Bangs (New York), Otto Sarony Co., Pope Brothers (Newburgh, New York), Rawson Gallery ( Brooklyn, New York), White (New York), and others. Many photographs have manuscript annotations on verso signed by "F.S.D.", her husband, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh.
Photographs include portraits and group portraits of Dellenbaugh and others, some taken at Cragmore with the Felix Morris Company. Includes some stage scenes and sets of the plays: The boomerang, Don, The girl with the green eyes, The man of the hour, The rose, The secret, The secret of Polichinelle, Sister Beatrice, Vanity fair, Walls of Jerrico, and others. Also includes images of Clara Bloodgood, Douglas Fairbanks, Edith Wynne Matthison, Annie Russell, and others.
Biographical / Historical
Harriet Rogers Otis Dellenbaugh (1855-1930) was an actress and a dramatic reader. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and in 1885 married Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (1853-1935) an explorer, artist, and author. The Dellenbaugh's lived in New York City and summered in Cragsmoor, a small town near Ellenville, New York, where they were active with a local theater group called the Barnstormers.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Portraits as a girl
- II. Portraits as a woman
- III. Portraits in costume with the Felix Morris Company
- IV. Photographs of scenes on stage
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
89-90.192. Purchase from Xerxes Books; received: 1990 May 9.
General note
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
Processing Information
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- Title
- Photographs of Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh, 1862-1911: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou02102
Repository Details
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