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Title |
[Cabinet Card photograph of Pauline Hall] |
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Date |
Undated |
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Contributor |
Newsboy; C. G. W. Clausen |
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Artistic roles |
Pauline Hall (Actor) |
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Genre |
Burlesque |
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Theme |
Women in 19th C. Theatre |
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Places |
New York (N.Y.) |
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Item description |
Cabinet Card photograph of Paulinee Hall (1860-1919). Photo is in pure black and white and was copyrighted in 1892 by B J Falk in New York. The card was produced by Newsboy in New York. Hall is depicted wearing a burlesque costume. |
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Object narrative |
Cabinet card photograph of Pauline Hall (1860-1919) in an unknown role. Pauline Hall was born Pauline Fredericka Schmidgall in Cincinnati, OH on Feb. 26, 1860 and first stepped onto the stage as a dancer with a small singing part at an opera house in 1875. She began traveling with a follies company in 1878, but returned to comic and light opera by 1883. She opened with Ned Rice's company at the Bijou Opera House in New York, playing the role of Venus in Orpheus and Eurydice. This was a success for her, but not the first time she had been noticed by critics, as she had been mentioned for playing a role at the Metropolitan Opera House in The Mascot a year earlier. She continued to be a favorite in comic and light operas around the country until 1890, her most important role being Erminie in Erminie during 1886-1888. She performed Erminie eight hundred times while on Broadway and touring around the United States, making her a household name. She toured with her own companies from 1890-1896, and later entered vaudeville, reportedly earning as much as $600 a week by 1898. A marking on the photograph indicates it was produced in 1892, a period in which Hall was performing in her own company, The Pauline Hall Opera Co. It is surmised the role she is portraying here is from her company's production of the comic opera La Belle Hlne in 1891, which reviewers called a burlesque at best. Hall was known for displaying her statuesque figure as is shown in this photograph. She would trade on her womanly figure her entire career, maintaining it till the time of her death in 1919 while playing in Belasco's The Gold Diggers. |
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Type |
Text |
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Original format |
Portrait photo |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Language |
en |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
MSS255 Robert C. Hansen Performing Arts Collection |
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Series/grouping |
10.1.1: Photographs, Cards, Caricatures/Satire and Other Pictoral Materials -- Photographs -- People |
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Box |
88 |
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Finding aid link |
http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/manuscripts/ead/mss255.xml |
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Preferred citation |
[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. |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
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. |
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Object ID |
MSS255.088.004 |
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Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
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OCLC number |
872280888 |
