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- catalog abstract "The collection contains business and financial records for the Fanny Davenport Company, mostly from 1880-1898, including theatrical contracts; transportation, equipment, and costume records; correspondence with playwrights (including Frances Aymar Mathews, Victorien Sardou) and agents (Elisabeth Marbury); and Davenport's household management and real estate records. The remainder of the collection contains documents and photographs from the family of Fanny Davenport's nieces, May Davenport Seymour (Curator of the Theatre Collection, Museum of the City of New York), and actress Fanny Lydia Davenport Seymour Field, who married Princeton geology professor Richard Montgomery Field (1885-1961).".
- catalog contributor b11514769.
- catalog contributor b11514770.
- catalog date "1870".
- catalog description "Additional Fanny Davenport papers are held by the Princeton University Library.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01820".
- catalog description "Fanny Davenport Collection, 1870-1979 (MS Thr 418). Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Fanny Lily Gypsy Davenport (1850-1898) was an American actress and theatrical manager. She was the child of Edward Loomis Davenport and Fanny Elizabeth Vining Gill Davenport. In 1882 she started her own theatrical company, the Fanny Davenport Company, which toured the United States with productions of Fedora, La Tosca, Cleopatra, and Gismonda, among others. She was married first to Edwin H. Price (from 1879 to 1888) and then to Melbourne MacDowell (from 1889). She had no children from either marriage. Her sister, May Davenport, married William Seymour (1855-1933) and had children, including May Davenport Seymour (1856-1927; married to William Stanley Eckert) and Fanny Lydia Davenport Seymour (married to Richard Montgomery Field).".
- catalog description "The collection contains business and financial records for the Fanny Davenport Company, mostly from 1880-1898, including theatrical contracts; transportation, equipment, and costume records; correspondence with playwrights (including Frances Aymar Mathews, Victorien Sardou) and agents (Elisabeth Marbury); and Davenport's household management and real estate records. The remainder of the collection contains documents and photographs from the family of Fanny Davenport's nieces, May Davenport Seymour (Curator of the Theatre Collection, Museum of the City of New York), and actress Fanny Lydia Davenport Seymour Field, who married Princeton geology professor Richard Montgomery Field (1885-1961).".
- catalog extent "7 linear feet (4 boxes)".
- catalog issued "1870".
- catalog language "In English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Davenport, Fanny, 1829-1891.".
- catalog subject "Fanny Davenport Company.".
- catalog subject "Field, May Davenport Seymour, 1883-1967.".
- catalog subject "Field, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1885-".
- catalog subject "Mac Dowel, Melbourne, 1857-1941.".
- catalog subject "Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933.".
- catalog subject "Mathews, Frances Aymar.".
- catalog subject "Price, Edwin H.".
- catalog subject "Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908.".
- catalog subject "Seymour, May Davenport, 1856-1927.".
- catalog subject "Theater management.".
- catalog subject "Theatrical companies.".
- catalog subject "Traveling theater.".
- catalog subject "Women theatrical managers United States.".
- catalog subject "Women theatrical producers and directors.".
- catalog title "Fanny Davenport collection, 1870-1979.".
- catalog type "Contracts. aat".
- catalog type "Correspondence. aat".
- catalog type "Financial records. aat".
- catalog type "Invoices. aat".
- catalog type "Photographs. aat".
- catalog type "Receipts. aat".
- catalog type "text".