Box 1
Container
Contains 73 Results:
"That piece makes me tired snapped Aunt Cordelia as she disgustedly threw "The Woman's Home Intelligencer" down on the table." Two sheets of The Kirkwood, Geneva, New York, letterhead, 4 pages. Fragment.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 11
Dates:
1906-1930
"... further as I looked up from my magazine..." 7 sheets of notebook paper, 14 pages. Fragment.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 12
Dates:
1906-1930
"Americans in the Making". TMs, 11 pages, including a preliminary page headed "INSCRIPTION". Text of an MBF illustrated lecture.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 13
Dates:
1906-1930
Schedule for 1926 "Premier Festivals for the FA Circuit". Mimeograph sheet annotated by MBF [with names of traveling partners?], indications for "chalk" and "pap.", and date changes. September 11-December 12, 1926
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 14
Dates:
1926
KWEER CHARACTERS I HAVE KNOWN'. TMs, 60 pages. MBF's scripts and notes on some of her presentations. This typescript was prepared by her daughter, Marion Fish Giersbach. MBF's original text does not survive in manuscript.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
"The voices sang lustily as the studio size piano was attacked by the musicians " AMs, 10 sheets, 10 pages. An unpublished and unfinished manuscript by MBF's daughter, Marion Fisk Giersbach (1900-1991), provides perspective on why her mother ventured out as the family breadwinner. MFG also served on the Circuit while in her early twenties and speaks from first-hand knowledge. AMs and printout transcription.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
10 cards (5 images) picture performers and tent in the 1909 Sabetha, Kansas, Chautauqua, MBF's first appearance.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
1 card pictures the Union Pacific depot in Valparaiso, Nebraska and has MBF's note, "Dear Momma, Here is how, when and where I have arrived for my second bureau engagement." April 14, 1909
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
9 cards (4 images) picture MBF.
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Identifier: Item 3
2 cards (1 image) picture the tent for the Eureka, Kansas, Chautauqua, July 1-8, 1909
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 4
1 card is from C. Fisk, Danville, Illinois, August 21, 1906
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 5
1 card advertises Edmund Vance Cook
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 6
Ten 8 x 10" head-and-shoulder and full-figure publicity photos of MBF.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
Nine 8 x 10" and six 5 x 7" photographs of MBF at the easel with illustrations from her programs.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 8-panel, 8x11", published by Affiliated Lyceum Bureaus (Coit, White Entertainment, Mutual, Alkahest, Dixie, Ellison-White, and Coit-Alber)
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau; photos and copy different from above.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 3
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 4-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau, no sponsor listed, but art as above.
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 4
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau, announcing MBF for the 1920-1921 season., 1920-1921
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 5
Dates:
1920-1921
Lyceum Magazine, tearsheet with bylined article by MBF, Â"WonÂ't You Please Draw...?Â" on amusing suggestions she has received for illustrated lectures. April, 1923
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1923