Leila Shaw Autograph collection

Finding Aid

Prepared by Barbara Bass, September 18, 2002; Last Updated: June 2020

Inclusive Dates: 1910-1911
Extent: .33 cubic foot (1 document case)
Physical Location: 11th floor

Scope and Content: The Leila Shaw Collection contains autographs of performers from the 1910-11 theatrical season in Cleveland. They were removed from a scrapbook which also included programs. The programs have been added to the Playbill Collection.

Autographs of Margaret Anglin, Roy Atwell, Blanche Bates, Marie Bates, David Belasco, George L. Bickel, Harry Watson, Holbrook Blinn, Edmund Breese, Donald Brian, William Jennings Bryan, Billie Burke, Richard Carle, Charles Cartwright, Fay Courtney, and others are included.

Arrangement: Autographs are arranged alphabetically by the performer's name.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Autograph: Anglin, Margaret
2. Autograph: Atwell, Roy
3. Autograph: Bates, Blanche
4. Autograph: Bates, Marie
5. Autograph: Belasco, David
6. Autograph: Bickel, George; Watson, Harry
7. Autograph: Blinn, Holbrook
8. Autograph: Breese, Edmund
9. Autograph: Brian, Donald
10. Autograph: Bryan, William Jennings
11. Autograph: Burke, Billie
12. Autograph: Carle, Richard
13. Autograph: Cartwright, Charles
14. Autograph: Courteney, Fay
15. Autograph: Dandy, Jess
16. Autograph: Dresser, Louise
17. Autograph: Eltinge, Julian
18. Autograph: Farnum, Dustin
19. Autograph: Faversham, William
20. Autograph: Genee, Adeline
21. Autograph: Glaser, Lulu
22. Autograph: Glaser, Vaughan
23. Autograph: Glendinning, Ernest
24. Autograph: Held, Anna
25. Autograph: Hitchcock, Raymond
26. Autograph: Hopwood, Avery
27. Autograph: Hyams, John
28. Autograph: Hyams, Leila McIntyre
29. Autograph: Irwin, May
30. Autograph: Keane, Doris
31. Autograph: King, Mazie
32. Autograph: Lean, Cecil
33. Autograph: McRae, Bruce
34. Autograph: Magrane, Thais
35. Autograph: Mann, Louis
36. Autograph: Mantell, Robert Bruce
37. Autograph: Marshall, Tully
38. Autograph: Melrose, Wilson
39. Autograph: Montell, Eleanore
40. Autograph: Montgromery, Dave
41. Autograph: Mordkin, Milail
42. Autograph: Nash, Mary
43. Autograph: Olcott, Chauncey
44. Autograph: O'Neill, Nance
45. Autograph: Opp, Julie
46. Autograph: Post, Guy Bates
47. Autograph: Ritchie, Adele
48. Autograph: Rockwell, Florence
49. Autograph: Ross, Charles, J.
50. Autograph: Russell, Marie Booth
51. Autograph: St. Denis, Ruth
52. Autograph: Schumann-Heink, Ernestine
53. Autograph: Schumann-Heink, Henry
54. Autograph: Scott, Cyril
55. Autograph: Sherwood, Phyllis
56. Autograph: Starr, Frances
57. Autograph: Taylor, Billee
58. Autograph: Thurston, Howard
59. Autograph: Warwick, Robert
60. Autograph: Weldin, Marshall, P.
61. Autograph: Weston, Lucy
62. Autograph: Williams, Robert
63. Autograph: Wise, Thomas A.
64. Miscellaneous Manuscripts
65. Clippings