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Owen Mortimer collection
- Title
- Owen Mortimer collection, 1953-1999.
- Author
- Mortimer, Owen.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 424 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .2 lin. ft. (1/2 archives box)
- Summary
- Exhibition and biographical materials relating to Ira Aldridge, and correspondence between his daughter Amanda Aldridge and biographer Owen Mortimer.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- Mortimer, Owen
- Biography (note)
- Biographer of Ira Aldridge, the free born African-American actor who achieved fame in Europe for his interpretation of Shakespearean roles from the 1820s to his death in 1867.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Call Number
- Sc MG 424
- OCLC
- NYPW088000037-A
- Author
- Mortimer, Owen.
- Title
- Owen Mortimer collection, 1953-1999.
- Biography
- Biographer of Ira Aldridge, the free born African-American actor who achieved fame in Europe for his interpretation of Shakespearean roles from the 1820s to his death in 1867. Mortimer began collecting materials on Aldridge after his migration to the United States in 1946, some of which were exhibited at the Chicago Public Library in 1954. His biography Speak of Me As I Am: the Story of Ira Aldridge was published in 1989. Owen Mortimer is a native of Australia.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Mortimer, Owen.Ring, Montague.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 424