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Golden Family Collection 1795-1996

Overview of the Collection

Title:
Golden Family Collection 1795-1996 

Creator:
Golden Family

Working Men's Institute of New Harmony, Indiana
New Harmony, Indiana
http://www.workingmensinstitute.org/

Series: Preliminary Papers

Subseries: Historic Materials

Box A William Echard Golden History of Family, 1929-1930

2 copies, 1 set of clippings


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Louise Husband's article, 1934 .

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Betty Couch's writings, 1950-1980

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Carl and Julia Ritt's writings and speech about Goldens, 1950s-1960s

9 items


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Carl Ritt, "Goldens Tonight!" articles

Newspaper clippings and xeroxes

Only xerox copy may be used


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Subseries: Frederick Golden Williams

File removed from Box 5, was determined that it should be at start of collection. It is donated material from Frederick Golden Williams, from June 1996.


Box A Deed of Gift, June 1996 [image]View item(s)

Family Tree

Starting with William Golden

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Family Tree

Copy of family tree, starting with William Golden


Family Photos

4 photos


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Photo of Matt Williams

Series: Golden Family

Subseries: Personal Papers

Golden Wedding, etc., 1890-1911

13 items; 1 folder

Announcements, notices, invitations, lock of hair, businessmen's resolution to close Jul 4, 1891, drawings, clippings.


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Wedding invitation [image]View item(s)

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Miscellany, 1861-1934

41 items; 1 folder

Confederate currency, train schedules, greeting card cutouts, views of the Chicago 1934 World's Fair, American Flag


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Pamphlet, curative [image]View item(s)

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Map, homemade [image]View item(s)

Photograph, racehorse and jockey [image]View item(s)

Photograph, house [image]View item(s)

Photograph, "Carl and Peter" [image]View item(s)

Personal writing, typed [image]View item(s)

Evansville College Founder's Day Banquet Program [image]View item(s)

American Flag [image]View item(s)

World's Fair, 1934-1941 [image]View item(s)

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Subseries: Business Papers and Account Books

Theatrical Data Book, 1884-1885 

40 p. 9 x 17 cm.7 items laid in mainly personal and petty expenses.1 folder

Containing also, Percentage and Ticket Tables. Published for the use of Managers and Combinatrions.Hasselman-Journal Company, Indianapolis.

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Account Book, 1886-1915

14 x 31+ cm. 1 folder

Used by two people.

Eugene Fellenberg Owen & Company, 1886-1887, pp. 1-82: customers listed: Julian Dale Owen, A.R. Owen, Ben Bailey, Eugene and Horace Owen, Robert Cooper, R. Lichtenberger, Morris Ford, John Ribeyre, Wilhelm & Co., T. Mumford (Jr. and Sr.), E.S. Thrall, and John Viets

Martin T. Golden, 1893-1915, pp. 83-241: numerous individuals including Martin, Sr., Grace Golden, John and Sid Lane, and Hiram Holland.


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Subseries: Theatrical Material

Players, 1890s-1940

5 items; 1 folder

Patti Rosa, Grace George, 1894 collection of top contemporary players including Grace Golden, Lillian Gish.

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Theatres, 1892

5 items; 1 folder

The Casino


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The Auditorium [image]View item(s)

Schiller Theatre [image]View item(s)

The Lyceum, Ithaca, NY [image]View item(s)

Concerts, 1891-1914

5 items; 1 folder

Programs conducted by Walter Damrosch; opening dedication of Carnegie Music Hall with Tschaikowsky conducting his own work.


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Musurgia, New York [image]View item(s)

Aeolian Hall 1913-1914 [image]View item(s)

Aeolian Hall, November 1913-1916 [image]View item(s)

Special Publcations, 1795-1956

9 items; 1 folder

Some rare. Almanacs, catalogues of plays, poetry, the Olio.


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Our Ships at Sea [image]View item(s)

Part two, The Olio [image]View item(s)

Ulla McDonald [image]View item(s)

Guss Williams [image]View item(s)

Catalogue of Plays [image]View item(s)

Life Magazine, minature [image]View item(s)

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Pictures, 1893, undated

15 items; 1 folder

1893 Chicago World's Fair; subject matter varied.


Golden Scrapbook, approx. 1880-1919

27x37+ cm.

item missing from collection

Clippings: play reviews;views of hotels, courthouse and other buildings of various towns in which the Goldens played; deaths of Bella and Grace

fragile--restricted use


Subseries: Clippings

Literary, 1856-1918, undated

approx. 127 items 1 folder


Newspaper Clipping, poetry, by Bella [image]View item(s)

Newspaper Clipping, poetry, Mr. and Mrs. Martin [image]View item(s)

Women, mainly undated

15 items; 1 folder


New Harmony Interests, mainly undated

9 items; 1 folder


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Frances Golden casting, 1895 [image]View item(s)

Newspaper Clipping, New Harmony Register, 1881 [image]View item(s)

Franes Golden, Ladies' Minstrels, Thrall's Opera House [image]View item(s)

Frances Golden, recital program [image]View item(s)

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Operetta Program, New Harmony [image]View item(s)

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Newspaper Clipping, New Harmony history, prohibition [image]View item(s)

General Interests, 1839-early 1900s

35 items; 1 folder


Photographic Albums, undated

2 albums 21x27 cm. 20x21 cm.

Missing from collection

  1. Red velvet with clasp. Members of Golden gamily, Echards, Owens and others - some unidentified
  2. Brown leather. Goldens, Harry Robinson, Charles Slater, Echards, Dr. Murphy, and others - many unidentified.

Series: Martin Golden, (Oct 25, 1835-Oct 24, 1915)

Subseries: Correspondence and Personal Papers, 1851-1915

Personal Papers

20 items; 1 folder

Service papers, Lodge papers (I.O.O.F., Knights of Pythias), theatre business.


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The Knight Herald, Devoted to the Interests of the Robert Owen Lodge, Knights of Pythias. Vol. 1., No. 1, New Harmony, Ind.Aug. 18., '87 [image]View item(s)

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Robert Owen Lodge, Martin Golden death resolution [image]View item(s)

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Fraternal Order purchasing list [image]View item(s)

Opera House Program, September 1890 [image]View item(s)

Playbill, Monte Cristo! May 1873 [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Management of Lincoln J. Carter, 1893-1903

Account Book No. 1, 1895-1899

189 p.; 15 x 37.5 cm.

Seasons of 1895-1896, 1896-1897, 1897-1898, 1898-1899. Expenses for Under the Dome, weather occastionally, date, town. Memoranda of money paid to people and firms, salaries, pringint, Bella, Frances (Babe). Toured Chicago, Philadelphia, Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit, New York, Boston.

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Account Book No. 2,

152 p.; 20 x 33 cm.

Companion book to No. 1. Expenses for manager for Under the Dome. Weather, date, town; accounts gross and net; summary of profits and losses. Receipts and "money remitted to Lincoln J. Carter" for his own uses and for covering certain company expenditures.

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Account Book No. 3, 1899-1902 

116 p. used; 9.5 x 31 cm.

Seaspms pf 1899-July 1900, 1900-1901, 1901-Apr 1902. Expenses as manager for Under the Dome, date, town.


Account Book No. 4, 1899-1902

114 p.; 18 x 29.5 cm.

Companion Book to No. 3. Seasons of 1899-Apr 1900, 1900-1901, 1901-1902. Expenses as manager for Under the Dome , weather, date, town, expenditures, accounts gross and net, summary of profits and losses, memoranda of "amounts remitted" to Lincoln J. Carter and printing firms.

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Box 3 Account Book No. 5, 1902-Nov. 1903

72 p. used plus a few at the end; 11 x 28.5 cm.

Seasons of 1902-Apr 1903 and Aug 1903-Nov 1903. Expenses as manager for Lincoln J. Carter: dates,towns, expenditures. Season cut short; books show poor returns.

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Account Book No. 6, 1902-Nov 1903

55 p. used; 20 x 24 cm.

Companion book to No. 5. Seasons of 1902-1903 and Aug 1903-Nov 1903. Expenses as manager for Lincoln J. Carter, weather, date, town, sometimes name of theatre, accounts gross and net, summary of profits and losses. Season cut short; book show poor returns.

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Series: Timothy Golden, (1827-May 2, 1909)

Subseries: Scrapbooks

Box 3 Scrapbooks, 1874-1892

135 p. 26 x 30 cm.

Police cases Golden solved or was involved with; the Babbitt case, Mrs. Ellen Peck; criminals he arrested; cases he wrote up for which inspector got credit. Stories from New York Herald Tribune , New York Sun , New York World, New York Times, New York Sentinel, New York Truth, Cincinnati Enquirer , Record Times (Wilkes Barre, Pa.)


Scrapbook, 1892-1909

45 p.; 26 x 30 cm.

Various police cases worked on by Golden, a feature on the play Hearts written by nephew William E., retirement stories. Stories from New York Herald Tribune , The World , The Evening Sun, New York Recorder, The Press, Duluth Evening Herald , Sunday Mercury .


Series: Emma Isabella Llewellyn Golden, (Jan 25, 1842-Apr 11, 1919)

Subseries: Correspondence, 1866-1919

86 items plus 8 empty envelopes; 4 folders

Fan letters: troupe gentlemanly and so different from most travelling companes; letters accompanying gift of esteem; series of letters to Frances when she was traveling and performing (1904-1914), electricity installed in house, Feb 1914; discussioni re: World War I and possible spies in Evansville, Apr 1918; Frances working for Red Cross and planning to go to France even though War is over; numerous letters to Frances in France telling of family and town happenings; May 6, 1918 letter discusses the Germans' conduct in the war and announces that she is destroying all her letters


Subseries: Personal Papers, 1864-1911

44 items; 2 folders

Handcopied theatre reviews; Civil War experiences and anecdotes re: her patriotism; actors and actresses she remembered and played with; poetry; birth and citizenship certificates; rare paper money.

Theatrical programs and notices of plays in which she performed


Box 3 Hazel Kirke, play advertisement [image]View item(s)

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Playbill, New Mandolin [image]View item(s)

Bean's Opera Hall [image]View item(s)

Program, November 27, 1889  and November 27, 1890 [image]View item(s)

Opera Program, Fort Worth Opera House [image]View item(s)

June 14 Farewell Benefit [image]View item(s)

Academy of Music [image]View item(s)

Tribute, February 26, 1864  and February 26, 1865 [image]View item(s)

Song Lyrics, La Manola [image]View item(s)

Song/poem, Best of Her Race [image]View item(s)

Song/poem, Seamus O'Brien [image]View item(s)

Song, Ballad os the Ballad of Rcsaca [image]View item(s)

Women of the Stage [image]View item(s)

List of actors [image]View item(s)

Letter, handwritten, Mr. Winslow [image]View item(s)

Music, Incidental [image]View item(s)

Receipt, January 3, 1895 [image]View item(s)

Birth Register, 1842 [image]View item(s)

Naturalization service [image]View item(s)

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Play review, Machiavelli [image]View item(s)

"People's Favorite" artistic portrait of Bella Golden [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Box 3 Partial Autobiography, 1842-1861

9 p.; 17 x 20.5 cm.

In pencil. A partial life - from birth to marriage; "Notes of Reminiscences of the stage Dictated by Bella Golden to Frances Golden." Notebook originally owned by Edward Fauntleroy; on front cover; "Arithmetik. Einschreibheft von E. Fauntleroy Cl VII a. " Some pages at front torn out

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Subseries: Box 4 Journals and Diaries, 1876-1919

15 items

The 15 journals which survived Bella Golden's determination to destroy her personal papers, are simply listed in this guide. Rough notes, taken by the archivist during the processing stage, are included for the researcher's convenience, they may not be copied.

The journals have daily entries and cover the weather, theatrical tours and performances for the year. The New Harmony retirement years recount activities of the Golden family members, social visits, and social club events; births, marriages, illnesses and deaths of townspeople. Occasionally Bella's brief, personal observations reveal a family difficulty or situation, and even more rarely, her deep, personal feelings.


Folder 1 Daily Journal, Aug 21, 1878-Jun 11, 1879.

90 p.; In pencil 8 x 12 cm.


Journal of the theatrical season of 1880-1881 (Apr 28, 1880-May 16, 1881).

In ink. 91 p.; 9.5 x 15.75 cm.


Journal of the theatrical season of 1882-1883 (Aug 14, 1882-May 13, 1883).

In ink. 70p.; 17 x 20.5 cm.


Journal of the theatrical season of Jan 1, 1891-Dec 1, 1891.

Mainly in ink. 181 p.; 7.5 x 12 cm.


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Folder 2 Diary, Jan 1-Dec 29, 1905.

In ink. 363 p.; 10 x 15.5 cm.

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Diary, Dec 31, 1905-Jan 6, 1907.

Pages unmarked; in ink. 11 x 18 cm.


Folder 3 Fannie Echard Diary, Apr 7, 1907-Feb 15, 1909 , (died Apr 28, 1909) [image]View item(s)

Bella Golden Diary, July 24, 1910-Dec 31, 1910.  1911 in separate volume. Jan 1, 1912-Dec 31, 1912.

199 p.; 17 x 21 cm.


Folder 4 Diary, Jan 9, 1909-Apr 17, 1909.

In ink. 60p.; 17 x 21 cm.

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Diary, Jan 1, 1910-Jul 23, 1910.

In ink. 86 p.; 17 x 21 cm.

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Folder 5 Diary, 1911

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Folder 6 Diary Jan 1, 1913-Sep 23, 1913.

In ink. 120 p.; 17.5 x 21 cm.

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Diary, Sep 23, 1913-Jun 7, 1914.

In ink. 120 p.; 17.5 x 21 cm.

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Folder 7 Diary, Jun 9, 1914-Dec 31, 1914.

In ink. 100 p.; 16 x 24+ cm.

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Diary, Jan 1-Dec 31, 1917.

In ink. 300 p.; 10 x 17 cm.

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Folder 8 Diary, Jan 1, 1918-Dec 31, 1918.

In ink. 365 p.; 13 x 20 cm.

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Diary, Jan 1, 1919-Mar 5, 1919  (last entry)

64 p.; 13 x 20 cm.

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Subseries: Scrapbooks

Box 5 Scrapbooks, 1836-1891

86 p. 16 x 24+ cm.

Poetry; pictures, theatrical notices and reviews; death notices of John Llewellyn (Bella's Father) and Henry Farren


Scrapbook, 1869-1890s

75 p.; 22 x 35 cm.

Clippings: poems, pictures, articles re theatre, articles on numerous subjects including current events; prints; cutouts. Items laid in. Will's name (Willie) written on end sheet, but the scrapbook undoubtedly belonged to Bella.


Scrapbook, 1873-1891?

unpaged 15 x 23 cm.

Clippings in a book that once contained agricultural reports. Stories, poems, jokes, interesting facts, notices of theatrical performances.


Bound Book

empty pages 21 x 27 cm.

Not in these boxes but stored in a separate storage box

On cover "Souvenir to Mrs. Bella Golden"; on spine "Manuscript" and "Drama."


Subseries: New Testament

Box 5 New Testament, 1861

The New Testament...New York: American Bible Society, 1861.

Inscription: "Presented to Captn John Arthur by his friend Captn John C. Mead. Aug. 18/62."


Series: Martin Thaddeus Golden, (May 30, 1862-Dec 1929)

Subseries: Papers, 1892-1912

14 items; 1 folder

Personal (poem), Legal (1894-1908, clippings.


Box 6 Poem, handwritten [image]View item(s)

Membership Card, Posey County Driving Associaton [image]View item(s)

Stockholder's ticket, Posey County Agricultural Society [image]View item(s)

Stockholder's ticket, Posey County Agricultural Society, 1892 [image]View item(s)

Exhibitor's ticket, Posey County Agricultural Society, 1893 [image]View item(s)

Admissions ticket, the Races, July 4, 1894 [image]View item(s)

Membership ticket, Posey County Fair, 1894 [image]View item(s)

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Stock receipt, New Harmony Creamery Company, 1908 [image]View item(s)

Bill, July 1914 , general contracting [image]View item(s)

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Newspaper clipping, August 1912 [image]View item(s)

Marriage ceremony of Martin T. Golden and Hattie Richards [image]View item(s)

Hattie Golden Confirmation [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Journal, 1848-1880

181 p.; 20 x 31 cm. 1 folder


Box 6 Journal

pp. 1-29, 1848-1858: Accounts kept by someone other than Martin; remainder used by him for school work, lecture notes, record of personal finances (checked by his mother, p. 103. Besides his regular signature, he signed the book "Nitram Nedlog Wen Ynomrah" (Martin Golden New Harmony).


Series: William Echard Michael Goldern (Jun 9, 1865-Mar 26, 1930)

Subseries: Correspondence,  1888-1930

Box 6 Correspondence, 1888-1894

24 items; 1 folder

Enquires re plays; congratulations from Indiana University faculty on Hearts award; to Augustin Daly; exchange of letters re job at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; exchange wth Lyceum Theatre re play Blue Bells

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Correspondence, 1914-1919

11 items; 1 folder

Electricity installed in Golden home; Harry Robinson's death, Dec 1918; March 1919 letters of Bella's illness and death.

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Correspondence, 1927 Jan-Jun

20 items; 1 folder

to Frances: keen observations on contemporary stage - players, plays, audiences (vulgar) prices (high); Roxy's new theatre and new Ziegfeld theatre; Charles Lindbergh'sfeat.

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Correspondence, 1927 Jun-Aug

23 items; 1 folder

To family re European travels: Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium; observations on new social styles (smoking by women and cocktails); visits to "dukeries"; visit to Rosamond Dale Owen Templetonand Daisy Owen Clarke: he and Cary boys traveled first class and visited all appropriate tourist spots. Remainder of letters to Frances in Brooklyn ; description of opera "Turnandot" with Maria Jeritza

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1927  - Postcards

35 items; 1 folder

From European trip; most have incomplete dating; mainly to brother Martin; many not sent through mails.

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Correspondence, 1928-1929

25 items; 1 folder

To Frances: social activities; theatrical news - Katherine Cornell, Helen Gahagan, Gertrude Lawrence, Roland Hayes, Will Rogers; Ravels new waltz, '"Bolero", Strange Interlude, Journey's End and other war plays; school activities with students and faculty, families and alumni

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Correspondence, 1930

17 items; 1 folder

Undated - to Frances: death of brother Martin; bad economic situation for banks and status of New Harmony bank; last letter he wrote before death

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Postcards

44 items; 1 folder

mainly from Brooklyn Polytechnic School for boys - approx. 1907-1918. Not arranged


Subseries: Personal Papers, 1874-1929

Box 7 Personal Papers, 1874-1894

29 items; 1 folder

School papers (New Harmony, Indiana University, Columbia) and career (New Harmony, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute).


Personal Papers, 1898-1929

13 items; 1 folder

Poetry. "Midsummer Night's Dream", passport, health report.


Knights of Pythias, lecture & notes [image]View item(s)

"Thomas Lodge", poem [image]View item(s)

Handwritten "The Counting" by James Russell Lowell [image]View item(s)

Typed October 1898  "The Counting" By James Russell Lowell [image]View item(s)

Honorary Alpha Delta Tau membership ceritificate [image]View item(s)

The Polygon, December 1922 , article about William E. Golden, 25 years of teaching [image]View item(s)

Death and Estate Papers, 1930

16 items; 1 folder


Letter from Frances Golden, April 1930  [image]View item(s)

Draft of letter from Frances Golden, April 1930  [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, May 1930  [image]View item(s)

Memorial from Polytech Preparatory to Frances Golden [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, June 1930  [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, July 1930  [image]View item(s)

List of articles desired by Frances Golden from William E. Golden's estate [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, August 1930 [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, August 1930 [image]View item(s)

Letter from Brooklyn Trust Company to Frances Golden, October 1930 [image]View item(s)

Cremation certificate [image]View item(s)

Property transfer note [image]View item(s)

Newspaper clipping, William E. Golden's estate [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Writings

Box 7 Writings, 1885-1888

7 items; 1 folder

While a student at Indiana University


"Ciriticism" [image]View item(s)

"Facts", 1886  [image]View item(s)

"The newspaper", 1886  [image]View item(s)

"Philomathean Society", 1886  [image]View item(s)

"Ruy Blas", 1887  [image]View item(s)

Incomplete untitled writing, 1888  [image]View item(s)

Incomplete, "Temperance Literature" [image]View item(s)

"Caroline, A Story"

71 p.; 1 folder

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Writings

5 items; 1 folder

"An Introduction to English History", "Sweet Charity", "Biography of Adam North", poetry.


"An introduction to English history" [image]View item(s)

"Sweet Charity" [image]View item(s)

"Chapter 3" [image]View item(s)

"Biography of Adam North" [image]View item(s)

Writings, 1929

1 item; 1 folder

History of the Golden Family - "The Goldens."


"The Goldens" A History of the Golden family" [image]View item(s)

Benedict Arnold, 1896

28 items; 1 folder

Printed plays, research material, contracts, programs, reviews and clippings.


Benedict Arnold, with notes [image]View item(s)

Play contract for Benedict Arnold, November 1895  [image]View item(s)

Play contract for Benedict Arnold, December 1895  [image]View item(s)

Contract draft, May 1895  [image]View item(s)

Play contract for Benedict Arnold,May 1895  [image]View item(s)

Newspaper clipping, Benedict Arnold, 1895  [image]View item(s)

Fifth Avenue Theatre program, December 1895  [image]View item(s)

Park Theatre program, January 1896  [image]View item(s)

Hearts, 1892

14 items; 1 folder

Printed play, programs, clippings.


Subseries: Bound Manuscripts

Box 7 Notebook, covers 1835-1911, Written ca. 1911 .

47 p. utilized; 20 x 25 cm.; 1 folder

Lives of Martin and Bella Golden up to the celebration of their 50th weddings anniversary on Aug 25, 1911. Written by W.E.M. Golden.

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Autograph Book, 1877-1879

112 p. (many blank); 14 x 9 cm.

Messages mainly for "Willia" although book may have been begun by Bella.


Scrapbook1889-1892 

33 p. utilized; 17 x 21 cm.

The contents, largely correspondence and clippings deal with: a. reviews of Will's play, Hortense, 1889; b. his Brief History of the English Drama , 1890, articles and reviews; c. reviews of his prize play Hearts , 1892


Addresses and Phone Numbers, ?-1924

80 p.; 8 x 13 cm. Papers laid in.

Mainly New York and New Jersey persons.


Subseries: Box 7 Photographs

5 items; 1 folder

Mainly unidentified people and houses

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Series: Grace Golden (? - Aug 14, 1903)

Subseries: Box 8 Correspondence, 1882-1992,  undated

15 items; 1 folder

Girlhood letters; 4 Feb 1885 letter to Aunt Fannie about her determination to be a singer; letters from fans

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Subseries: Personal Papers

Box 8 Biographical material

30 items; 1 folder

Biographical material, handwriting analysis, school items, religious cards - Grace's engagement broken late 1900.


Miscellaneous

1 folder

Watercolor, gift, 1891; Library of Congress Guide, gift, 1897.


Subseries: Performances, 1885-1990 , undated

Opera and theatre programs, playbills of theatre companies with which she performed


Box 8 1897

4 items; 1 folder

Grace's peformance (earliest in opera) as "Mlle. Goldini" and "Mlle. Goldeni."


Programs and Play Bills, 1885-1896

28 items; 1 folder


Playbill, "Lichtenberger!", 1887  [image]View item(s)

Programs and Play Bills, Apr-Dec, 1899

14 items; 1 folder


American Theatre program, December 11, 1899 [image]View item(s)

Programs and Play Bills, Dec 1899-Apr 23

24 items; 1 folder


Castle Square Opera Company, December 25, 1899 [image]View item(s)

The Stvdebaker Theater, April 23, 1900  [image]View item(s)

Programs and Play Bills, May 1900-undated

8 items; 1 folder


Playbill, "Esmeralda" [image]View item(s)

Metropolitan English Grand Opera Company program, "Esmeralda" [image]View item(s)

Metropolitan English Grand Opera Company listing [image]View item(s)

Career and Performances, 1894-1901

7 items; 1 folder


The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities [image]View item(s)

Metropolitan English Grand opera Company season 1900-1901 [image]View item(s)

Grace Golden, concerts, festivals, 1900-1901 [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Bound Manuscripts, 1882-1890

Box 8 Diary, 1882 .

11 p. utilized 9 x 15 cm.

School girl accounts; used only the month of January; inscribed by donor, but no signature.


Autograph Album, 1884, 1890

16 x 10 cm.

In English, French and German.

New York, Philadelphia; some autographs; Marcella Sembrich, Reginald de Koven, Campanini.


Box 9 Script Books, 1897

2 items; 20 x 26 cm. 1 folder

Scripts for roles: Yum Yum ( The Mikado ); Marie ( Daughter of the Regiment ); Galatea ( Galatea); Gianetta ( The Gondoliers ); Arline ( The Bohemian Girl ); Phyllis ( Iolanthe ); title roles in Olivette, Patience , and Maritana.


Subseries: Box 9 New Testament, 1887

Autograph


Subseries: Box 9 Biography

1 folder

Louis Snyder, "Golden Discovery: the saga of a forgotten American singer." Opera News, Dec 7, 1985. 11-15.


Subseries: Scrapbooks

Box 9 1889-1892 

21 p. used; 17.5 x 21 cm.

Probably collected and labeled by W.E. Golden.


1891-1894 

77 p. used; 19 x 24 cm.

Loose clippings laid in with later dates; probably collected and labeled by W.E. Golden.


1894-1903 

250 p. 24 x 38 cm.

Loose clippings laid in, some labels by W.E. Golden; other unidentified writing.


Subseries: Clippings

Personal information and theatrical reviews.


Box 9 1868-1893- 

30 items; 1 folder


1894-1899 

15 items; 1 folder


1901-1903 

56 items; 1 folder


1890's-1900's 

12 items; 1 folder


Series: Frances Llewellyn Golden (Sep 7, 1877 - Jun 24, 1963)

Subseries: Correspondence, 1865-1965 , undated

Box 10 1898-1903 

10 items; 1 folder

From sister Grace; a group for Herbert Mareau

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1904-1905 

19 items; 1 folder

Theatre agents and producers: Sam Shubert, Henry Savage, Lew Field's theatre; theatrical friends.


Letter, from Florence Henry to Frances Golden, November 23, 1904  [image]View item(s)

Letter, from Florence Henry to Frances Golden, December 16, 1904  [image]View item(s)

1906-1910 

21 items; 1 folder

Theatrical agents and friends.

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1911-1917 

23 items;1 folder

from Arthur Hammerstein; France's attempt to get plays and poetry published; letters from agents.

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Aug 1918-Dec 1918 

19 items, 11 items; 2 folders

Answers to Frances' letters applying for "war work"; mobilization of entertainers for the troops at home in camps and abroad; from male friends in the service, both in the U.S. and in Europe; female friends and theatre people

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1920s 

14 items; 1 folder

Attempts to reestablish her stage career; the move back to Indiana and Evansville;

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1930 

23 items; 1 folder

Last letter to brother Will; Channing Pollack; comments on 1937 flood


Box 11 1940 

12 items; 1 folder

Ross Lockridge(New Harmoney Memorial Commission); Kenneth Dale Owen re: oil on her farm; estate of E.S. Hawes; costume agents; former pupils and associates


1950-1956 , undated

30 items; 1 folder

Dr. Bishop Mumford; Karl Kae Knecht; Ruth Gordon.


Letter, from Hall of Famous Americans to Frances Golden, August 20, 1956 [image]View item(s)

1957-1965 

232 items; 2 folders

Correspondence and papers dating tot he last years of Frances Golden's life, and after; her letters to and from friends, patricularly Betty Couth and Kenneth Owen; to and from her attorneys in connection with her will, and finally her estate. Also legal papers.


Subseries: Personal Papers, 1899-

Box 11 Autobiographical Papers

11 items; 1 folder


"Miss Frances Golden, singing commediene" [image]View item(s)

Statement of birth, Frances Golden [image]View item(s)

"Frances' Anecdote", typed [image]View item(s)

Typed autobiographical piece [image]View item(s)

Typed autobiographical piece [image]View item(s)

Theatrical Performances, 1899-1920 , undated

32 items, 26 items; 2 folders

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World War I: In Service and After, 1918-1937

26 items, 8 items, 4 items in map case

Passport; credentials of National War Council; A.E.F. / Y.M.C.A. ; official papers; booklets; prgorams; Conventions of Women's Oversea's League.

These Posters are stored in a separate map case:
  • "Chateau-Thierry: The Bridge Where Uncle Sam Stopped the Hun" Y.M.C.A. Stations. Imp. Maus Del Hulle & Urban, Paris
  • "Verdun - Road to YMCA Canteen"Sketched on spot by Y.M.C.A. Sec'y. Coquemer imp. Paris
  • "Rand-McNally Pocket Map of Western Battle Fields" 25 cents. Chicago: Rand McNally and Co.,1917
  • "YMCA America's Theatre League sends 'The Cheer Ups Frances Golden, Hilda Hand, Bonnis Murray, J.B. Waldo and R.L. Delroy."

National War Work Council, Frances Golden ID [image]View item(s)

Pasenger list for S.S. Cretic, December 11, 1918 [image]View item(s)

Income voucher, Frances Golden [image]View item(s)

Entertainment schedule, week of February 8, 1919 [image]View item(s)

Certificate of release from National War Work Council, June 5, 1919 [image]View item(s)

"Popular songs of the American Expiditionary Force" [image]View item(s)

Teacher of Vocal Arts, 1920s-1952

44 items, 19 items; 2 folders

Class materials; diagrams of vocal mechanism; programs of performances; collections of songs and catalogs; clippings


Grand Opening announcement for Frances Golden's studio [image]View item(s)

"The Secret Passage" program, directed by Frances Golden, December 17, 1933 [image]View item(s)

The Golden Studios of Voice Arts flyer [image]View item(s)

Golden Studios of Voice Arts senior recital program, June 1940 [image]View item(s)

Community Players, 1927-1955

23 items; 2 folders

Brief history, play scripts, programs, clippings


Community Players, "Guest in the House" program, 1952  [image]View item(s)

World War II

3 items; 1 folder

Disaster Committee Insignia


Book Lists

8 items; 1 folder

Lists of books owned by the Golden family at various times in their lives.


Costume Lists

3 items; 1 folder

Lists of costumes owned by Frances and compiled by her probably in the late 1950s.


Santa Claus Exhibit, 1856

13 items; 1 folder

Golden family materials compiled in connection with Santa Claus Exhibit (mainly Carl Ritt); talk by Ritt re: makeup box; clippings


"The Golden Family Theatrical Exhibit", August 21, 1965  [image]View item(s)

Pamphlet, "The Golden Story" [image]View item(s)

Pamphlet, Hall of Famous Americans [image]View item(s)

Miscellany, 1895-1930s

26 items; 1 folder

Likenesses, high school graduation, membership cards, greeting cards.


Drawing, Frances Golden [image]View item(s)

Drawing, Miss Golden in costume [image]View item(s)

Wills

11 items; 1 folder

Correspondence (Betty Couch), versions - 1956, 1959, 1961; Frances' handwritten notes re: provisions of will; clippings.


Sale, Oct 10, 1963

7 items; 1 folder

List of personal property sold by Curran Miller Auction Company ; Betty Couch's List.


Subseries: Business and Legal Papers, 1899-1946

Box 11 Mainly Receipts

13 items


Contract with Daly's Theatre, April 1899  [image]View item(s)

Contract with B.C. Whitney Attractions, August 1906  [image]View item(s)

Contract with P.M.A.-A.E.A. [image]View item(s)

Theatre Contracts and Oil Lease

7 items; 1 folder


Subseries: Writings, 1892-1907 , undated

26 items; 1 folder

Short stories, poetry, essays written mainly by Frances and a few others; notebook containing a story and several other pieces --"Composed at the age of 12 and...finished at the age of 14. May 26, 1872."


Box 11 Letter, from William T. Golden to Frances Golden, October 13, 1907  [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Bound Manuscripts

Box 11 Journal, Mar 1914

9 p. 10.5 x 17.5 cm.

9 pages used for entries


Address Book, n.d.

5.5 x 10 cm.

Probably pre-World War I when Frances lived in New York.


Memorandum

9.5 x 15 cm.;

Kept by Frances during her years at Middletown, N.Y.; miscellaneous compendium of book song, and play titles; comments; quotations from books and magazines; "Books read in 1924."


Journal, 1950

14 x 22 cm.;

Contains "List of Articles in Front Room Closet" comprising 6 pages. Removed: undated letter to "Dear Sir" inquiring about gentleman's interest in purchasing her costumes; type-written list (by Betty Couch) of costumes; lists of books.


Appointment Book, undated

48 p. used 13.5 x 14 cm.

Used to list contents of theatrical trunks.


Subseries: Publications

Box 11 Balzac's Christ in Flanders

New Testament

7.5 x 10 cm.

New York: Thomas Nelson, n.d.

In Frances' handwriting: "Carried through England, Scotland, France and Germany, winter 1918."


The Actors' Equity Association: A Voluntary Organization

pub ca. 1921.


Subseries: Scrapbooks

Box 11 "Fannie L. Golden from her Mammie, 1885 ."

31 p.; 20 x 22 cm.; 1 folder


Scrapbook, 1887-1893

32 x 38 cm.

Greeting cards for various seasons; travel cards; clippings - poetry and writings.


Scrapbook, 1926-1939

32 x 37 cm.

Newspaper clippings concerning Frances' students; plays directed by her in city schools; Community Players: programs, players and reviews of plays.


Scrapbook, 1929-1942

1929-1942 23 x 28 cm.

Clippings - doings and special events of the Community Players and Friends. "Property of Golden Studio Miss Frances Golden".


Subseries: Box 13 Miscellany, 1903-1940s

12 items; 1 folder


Subseries: Clippings, 1899-1977

Box 13 Personal, 1899-1977

50 items; 1 folder


Press Notices and Reviews of Performances, 1901-1916

113 items; 1 folder


Series: Golden Troupe

Subseries: Papers, 1883-1893 ; undated

41 items; 2 folders

Correspondences; contracts for lodgings; mileage from town to town; theatre tickets; stationery; pictures, ads, West Baden brochure, 1884.


Letter, from Thomas Grove To Martin Golden, June 9, 1873 [image]View item(s)

"Forget Me Not" artistic depiction of the Golden Troupe [image]View item(s)

"Planter's Wife" artistic depiction of the Golden Troupe [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Box 13 Travels - Towns Visited

67 specific locations; 2 folders

Mainly letterheads of the states and towns the Troupe visited: 15 states and Winnipeg; 19 towns in Texas alone.


Subseries: Company Actors

Box 13 Kate Earle

5 items; 1 folder

Tragic accident which befell her, Feb 1878


Harry Robinson, 1845-1909 

16 items; 1 folder

Correspondence, sketches, clippings


Harry Robinson sketch portrait [image]View item(s)

Harry Robinson "The Comedian" characterture [image]View item(s)

Subseries: Theatrical Friends and Associates

Box 13 Lillian Russell, 1892-1917? 

6 items; 1 folder

Watercolor portrait, clippings


Watercolor portrait, Lillian Russell [image]View item(s)

The Booths, 1891-1893

8 items; 1 folder

Junius Brutus and Edwin.J.B. Booth's promoter copy of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors; photograph and clippings of Edwin


Booklets of Stage Celebrities, 1883-1899

7 items; 1 folder

Includes Thomas W. Keene, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Grace Golden and others


Portion of a Periodical, untitled, undated

1 folder


Subseries: Repertoire

Box 13 The French Spy

8 items; 1 folder

Printed plays (2 copies), 5 sides, play in manuscript


Hazel Kirke

4 items; 1 folder

Program of plays presented by Golden Dramatic Combination in Springfield, Mo.,Sep 1881; "Faces and Scenes" from Hazel Kirke in Madison Square Theatre ca. Jan 1881; 1000th Presentation at Madison Square Theatre.Oct 10, 1881-- scenes from play


Playbill, "Hazel Kirke" [image]View item(s)

Scene booklet, "Hazel Kirke" [image]View item(s)

Scene booklet for 1000th presentation, "Hazel Kirke" [image]View item(s)

Theatre Bills and Programs, 1884-1891

33 items; 1 folder


Lenzen's Hall, February 5, 1889 [image]View item(s)

Golden Troupe Tour book, 1890-91   [image]View item(s)

Bella's Script Slips

Subseries: Santa Claus (Indiana) Exhibits

Box 14 [?] Information on exhibits, labels, historic material on family, photos of family members

26 items


Photographs of Aug 1956 visit to exhibit (Frances Golden present) and pictures of exhibits. Photos of make-up box

17 items, 5 items; 1 folder, 2 envelopes


Subseries: Bound Manuscripts

Box 14 [?] Property book of Golden Combination, undated

360 p. of which 29 are used. 22 x 33 cm.; 1 folder

21 plays, and properties for staging them are listed: Daughter if tge Regiment, The French Spy, Divorced , Po-ca-hontas


Account Book, 1865-1868

10 x 32 cm.; 1 folder

Weekly expenses for staging plays, license, rentals, drayage, properties, salaries, printing, house expenses. Towns played: Evansville, Boonville, Henderson, Owensboro, Paduach , Mattoon, Terre Haute, Lafayette . Many handwritings; arrangement poor; pages torn out.


Account Book, Oct 22, 1866-Jul 25, 1868

131 p.; 10 x 32 cm.; 1 folder

Tours played: Evansville, Henderson, Mt. Vernon, New Harmony, opening night of new Metropolitan Theatre in Evansville (Apr 29, 1867 - p. 25).

pp. 1-42 weekly expenses of managing a theatre

pp. 44-104 concerned with money paid to company; lists of personal (Golden) expenses

pp. 104-131 Written from back to front; some personal expenses, those of Golden and other members of company.


Account Book and Journal, 1857-1874

142 p. 10 x 31.5 cm. 1 folder

List of plays loosely but alphabetically arranged; lists of theatres and managers ; management expenses; personal expenses.


Account Book, 1868

128 p. of which 57 are used, 20 x 32 cm.; 1 folder

pp. 6-15 accounts giving date, town, title of play performed, person receiving money, weather, amount.

pp. 29-57 "Sundries" - expenses of managing a theatre company


Account Book, 1879-1883

78 out of 112 p. used, 20 x 32 cm.; 1 folder

Seasons of 1879-1880, 1880-1881, 1881-1882. Expenses of managing a theatre company: weather, date. town, title of play, accounts (receipts and disbursements). At Havana, Ill.audience refused to pay 75 cents for reserved seats and stayed away. They also complained about general admission being more than 35 cents.


Account Book, 1879-1891

207 p., 19 x 31 cm.; 1 folder

Seasons of 1879-1883(first 76 pages are copies of first 78 pages of preceding book); 1883-1884; 1884-1885;1885-1886, 1886-1887; (1887-1888missing); 1888-1889cut short at Thanksgiving by Bella's accident and Martin's inability to find a replacement - p. 189; 1890-1891.Expenses of managing a theatre company: weather, date, town, title of play, accounds (receipts and disbursements).


Receipt Book, 1880s

21 x 7 cm.; 1 folder

Unused. Golden and Robinson Dramatic Company Receipt Book for 1880s.


Subseries: Clippings

Box 14 [?] 1863-1920s, undated

22 items

Mainly reviews of Troupe performances and articles about the Goldens


Dated and Undated

30 items

General theatrical interest: writers, composers, reviews.


Actors: A-L

66 itmes; 1 folder

among them Bernhardt, Booth, Emma Butler, A. Daly, De Bar, Matilda Heron, Joseph Jefferson, Fanny Kemble , Langtry, Lind, Lizt.


Actors: M-Z

54 items; 1 folder

Among them Mascagni, Modjeska, Clara Morris, Ada Rehan, Kate Reignolds, Marcella Sembrich, W.E. Sheridan, Lester Wallach


Mainly Undated

41 items; 1 folder


Subseries: Scrapbooks

Box 14 [?] Scrapbook

Mainly undated but early in the Goldens' careers - 1860s-1870s


Scrapbook

Mainly 1865 and 1866


Series: Echard Family

Family composed of Stewart Echard (Dec 4, 1830-Mar 21, 1904); Fanny Robinson Echard (May 2, 1839-Apr 24, 1909); Arthur Echard (1859-Aug 9, 1877)


Subseries: Correspondence and Papers

Box 14 [?] Correspondence, 1864-1904 , undated

19 items


Clippings

15 items

Views of Macclesfield, England, 1872; clippings - obituaries


Subseries: Bound Manuscripts and Books

Box 14 [?] Miscellaneous Notebook, 186? , 1871 , undated.

11 x 18 cm.

Unpaged and used sparsely. Property of "Aunt" Fannie Echard; remarks on purchase of hosue (known later as the Golden house from the Prtichards, March 3, 1871) and terms.


Diary, 1905

368 p., 10 x 15.5 cm.

Daily events, weather, people encountered.


Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1883.

"To Aunt Fannie from Will."


Subseries: Box 14 [?] The Little Sketch Book

19.5 x 14 cm.; 1 folder

Printed for J. Graf. Published by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet St. Oct 26, 187?. Pages unnumbered. Property of Arthur Echard; dated drawings of Oct 26, 187?, Jan 21, 1873; subjects mostly maps; 1 sketch only attempted


Series: Carl and Julia Ritt

Subseries: Box 14 [?] Correspondence and Papers, 1956-1976

22 items; 1 folder

Letters to publishers and film producers re: the Golden Family material: Norman Foster, Meredith Wilson, Bobbs-Merrill, NBC Broadcasting Company.


Subseries: Box 14 [?] "New Blades" Annual Ice Show

26 items; 1 folder

Sponsored by the Evansville Press,1956-1963? Correspondence, skater application letters, procedures, insturctions for skaters.


Subseries: Golden Family and Troupe Material

Box 14 [?] Chronology of Plays and Other Notes

26 p.; 1 folder


Golden Family Manuscript

62 p.; 1 folder

Composed from the articles published by Ritt, Jul 29 to Aug 10, 1963. Typescript corrected by Ritt


"The Goldens Tonight!"

7+ items; 3 folders

Articles, scrapbook; 4 complete sets; publicity on series; 2 incomplete sets; and complete set and one xeroxed set (removed to Box A)

Only xeroxed set may be used


Ritt Scrapbook and Articles

Located on shelf.


Subseries: Box 14 [?] Photographs

30 items; envelope

Largely unidentified; home of Ritts ?; Carl Ritt and Frances with historic American flag; rehearsal and staging activities.


Series: Photographs

Various family photos

27 items; 1 folder

  • Album of family portraits
  • Two daguerrotypes: Bella and Willie (?), and Willie alone
  • Small family item: Echards and others (?), Items at Christmas 1880

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Family album, 1880 [image]View item(s)

Golden Family

21 items; 1 folder


Newspaper clipping, January 23, 1970 [image]View item(s)

November 10, 1907   [image]View item(s)

Family portrait with dog [image]View item(s)

"The Pines" 1896  [image]View item(s)

Duplicate of "The Pines" 1896  [image]View item(s)

Duplicate of "The Pines" 1896  [image]View item(s)

Echard Mansion, New Harmony, Indiana, May 1886  [image]View item(s)

Frances and Grace [image]View item(s)

Frances and Grace [image]View item(s)

Frances and Grace, Rosch studio, St. Louis [image]View item(s)

Hattie Richards, wife of Martin T. Golden, wearing one of Bella Golden's stage dresses [image]View item(s)

Hattie Richards, wife of Martin T. Golden, wearing one of Bella Golden's stage dresses [image]View item(s)

Golden family dog and unidentified man [image]View item(s)

Tintype, Grace, Willie, Martin, Arthur, August 3, 1873

Golden Home, Exterior and Interior

25 items; 1 folder


Golden Family Home, New Harmony [image]View item(s)

Golden Family Home, New Harmony [image]View item(s)

Modern photo of Golden Family Home [image]View item(s)

Modern photo of Golden Family Home [image]View item(s)

Woman on a porch [image]View item(s)

Sitting room with picture of Bella on the wall [image]View item(s)

Man with camera, older woman at piano, July 19, 1955   [image]View item(s)

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Vertical orientation of older woman at piano, July 19, 1955 [image]View item(s)

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Older woman sitting at a table, October 5, 1954 [image]View item(s)

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Woman at table with a man, July 19, 1955 [image]View item(s)

Woman with curio [image]View item(s)

Golden Troupe Band

20 items; 1 folder


W.H. Raymond, scene painter business card [image]View item(s)

W.H. Raymond, scene painter, tintype [image]View item(s)

Newspaper clipping, W.H. Raymond, scene painter [image]View item(s)

Golden Troupe group shot, March 1872  [image]View item(s)

Prof Bush's Concert Band of the Golden Troupe [image]View item(s)

Member of Golden Troupe, portrait [image]View item(s)

Golden Troupe Band, 1885-1886  season