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Maud Madison photographs.
- Title
- Maud Madison photographs.
- Author
- Madison, Maud
- Publication
- [approximately 1870-1917]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Picture | Supervised use | *MGZEB 14-6723 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Description
- 1 box (approximately 68 photographs) : some col.; 22 x 31 cm or smaller
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Note
- Notes on versos of some photographs.
- Contents
- Folder 1. Early photos; possibly mother; Nellie Bowman -- Folder 2. Calendar photos -- Folder 3. With Eldred Thayer in old-fashioned ballroom dances; butterfly illustration -- Folder 4. Egyptian costume -- Folders 5-6. In costume -- Folder 7. Trying on costume with Bonnie et al -- Folder 8. Portraits (misc.) -- Folder 9. With boyfriend -- Folder 10. Woodrow Wilson campaign; World War I soldiers; Julia Reinhardt -- Folder 11. Informal; unidentified.
- Call Number
- *MGZEB 14-6723
- OCLC
- 905966247
- Author
- Madison, Maud. Dancer
- Title
- Maud Madison photographs.
- Imprint
- [approximately 1870-1917]
- Summary
- Approximately 68 photographs, mostly black and white with several color tinted, of dancer and actress Maud Madison. The photographs are portraits of Madison (some in dance costumes) from 6 weeks of age through adulthood. There are also photographs of Madison with World War I soldiers and holding a Woodrow Wilson campaign brochure; the actress Julia Bernhardt is also pictured raising funds for Victory loans. Others depicted include Madison's daughter Bonnie (later actress Beatrice Maude), actress Nellie Bowman, dancer Eldred Thayer, an unidentified boyfriend, and several unidentified dancers.
- Biography
- Dancer and actress Maud Madison was born on December 1, 1870 in San Francisco. She acted with Richard Mansfield in Richard III (approximately 1889) and performed other small parts. Madison was influenced by Loie Fuller and went to dance in Paris and London. Returning to the United States, she performed "crinoline" and butterfly dances in vaudeville, later turning to teaching ballroom dance. Madison died at her Hollywood, California home in 1953 after a long illness.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZEB 14-6723