Photographic black and white image postcard of Dame Ellen Terry from 1907-1909 produced by Foulsham & Banfield and printed in England. The postcard is creased on the edges and has brown stains and scuffs on the front. This postcard was used and has a divided back. Ms. Terry is identified as Mrs. James Carew in this image.
Object narrative
Photographic postcard of Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) from 1907-1909 wearing a ruffled lace shirt with a high neckline and a robe not unlike the one she wore earlier in her life while playing the part of Portia in ''The Merchant of Venice.'' Her hair is swept up on top of her head and she is wearing a black hat on top of the swept-up hair style. She is holding onto an embroidered curtain. The photo is from the Rotary Photographic Series. The date of 1907-1909 is assumed because the postcard indicates she was Mrs. James Carew at this time. Terry was only married briefly to Carew, an American actor who was more than twenty years her junior. This postcard was used, although no stamp or postmark is present. From the text of the correspondence, it is likely the card was sent via a personal messenger, as the author was writing to inform a Mrs. J. Wright in South Wigston (now a suburb of Leicester in England) that she would be visiting her the next day and she wanted to pick up her things from Mr. W. Mr. W. could quite possibly be Orson Wright, the founder of the town of South Wigston in the 1880s and who owned the brickworks factory there. Wright was responsible for the building of many of the buildings in South Wigston and it can be assumed they were very wealthy, as the postcard is addressed to an estate in South Wigston. Orson Wright died in 1913.
Type
Image
Original format
Correspondence
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language
en
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
MSS255 Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection
Series/grouping
10.1.1: Photographs, Cards, Caricatures/Satire and Other Pictoral Materials -- Photographs -- People
[Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determing actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID
MSS255.091.007
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
[Identification of item], Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection, 1753-2006 (MSS255), Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and Manuscripts, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA.
