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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"2 linear feet (4 boxes)"}
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{"value"=>"MssCol 2646", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"2646", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1874-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1874/1941"}
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1874
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1941
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1874
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{"value"=>"Annie Russell papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Collection consists of letters to the noted American actress, 1874-1940, from theatrical and literary figures, family and friends, as well as writings and personal papers."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Annie Russell Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Actress Annie Russell (1864-1936) was born in Liverpool, England, but emigrated to Canada with her family at a young age. Prompted by her family's financial need, Russell made her first stage appearance at the age of eight, in Montreal. After being brought to New York, she joined a juvenile opera company and made her first appearance there, at the age of fourteen. Russell then toured the West Indies and South America with the same company.</p> <p>Russell withdrew from the stage because of illness in the late eighteen eighties but returned in 1894. She became the first woman star under the mangement of Charles Frohman in 1896. Her first appearance in England was at the Garrick Theater, London, in 1898.</p> <p>Russell retired in 1918 and did not appear on stage again until 1932, when the Annie Russell Theater, established by her friend Mary Louise Curtis (Mrs. Edward W.) Bok, was opened at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. She became Artistic Director of the theater and Professor of Theater Arts at the college. When the theater was opened Russell played in <span class=\"emph\">In A Balcony.</span>She appeared later that year in an old role of hers, Madame La Grange, in <span class=\"emph\">The Thirteenth Chair</span>and her final stage appearance was in March 1935, as Mrs. Malaprop in <span class=\"emph\">The Rivals.</span></p> <p>In 1932 Rollins College conferred on her the degree of Doctor of Humanities.</p> <p>Annie Russell was twice married and divorced. She had no children.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers of this noted actress consist chiefly of incoming correspondence, 1874-1940. Most of the letters are from prominent theater and literary figures relating to their or her work on stage and her work at <span class=\"corpname\">Rollins College</span>. There is much personal correspondence from family and friends, especially from popular novelist <span class=\"persname\">Faith Baldwin,</span>, a long time friend of Russell's. Among the letters those from <span class=\"persname\">George Bernard Shaw</span> concerning a production of <span class=\"title\">Major Barbara</span> in 1906. Correspondence dated after Russell's death are letters of sympathy to her sister, Mrs. John J. Carty and letters to <span class=\"persname\">Dorothy Lockhart</span> relating to the <span class=\"corpname\">Annie Russell Theater</span>. There are also fan letters and a group of celebrity autographs collected by Russell.</p> <p>The remainder of the collection consists of writings by Russell, poems by her and others; a pocket diary kept during a coast to coast road tour, 1907; fragmentary diary, 1920-1925; a pocket diary, 1930; two pocket notebooks of road tour statistics, 1898-1900 and 1901-1904; an address book; papers relating to her marriage to and divorce from <span class=\"persname\">Oswald Yorke</span>, 1904-1929 and the sale of her St. Petersburg, Florida home, 1923-1934.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Annie Russell papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2646#c178393'>I. General Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2646#c178805'>II. Family Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2646#c178809'>III. Miscellaneous and unidentified letters</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2646#c178810'>IV. Personal miscellany</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/2646#c178818'>V. Diaries</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Dorothy Lockhart, <date>December, 1957</date>. Transferred from the Theater Division.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Russell, Annie, 1869-1936", "type"=>"persname"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Laura Bailey; machine readable finding aid created by APEX data services and revised by Chatham Ewing.</p>"}
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1874
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1941