Finding aid for the Scrapbook on Kate Josephine Bateman and family


Title:
Scrapbook on Kate Josephine Bateman and family
Repository:
Ohio University
Phone: 740-593-2710
http://www.ohio.edu/library/collections/archives-special-collections/
Creator:
Venner, Stephen
Dates:
1916-1961
Bulk dates:
1930-1939
Quantity:
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)
Abstract:
Scrapbook created by Stephen Venner about the careers of related actresses Kate Josephine Bateman, Sidney Crowe (married name Skardon), Valerie Skardon and other related actresses.
Identification:
MSS397
Language:
The records are in English

Scope and Content

Scrapbook created by Stephen Venner about the careers of related actresses Kate Josephine Bateman, Sidney Crowe (married name Skardon), Valerie Skardon and other related actresses. The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, autographed photographs and handwritten notes to Venner, broadsheet announcements of plays, a letter to Bateman from Skardon and a letter to Crowe from Henry James. Also included is a copy of the play "Leah" purportedly handwritten by Bateman. Unknown when Venner created the scrapbook, but items range from James' letter (before 1916) to a newspaper clipping from 1961. Received later by the archives is a letter from Gayle Harris, 1995, and a photograph of Skardon with her two daughters.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is a single item.

Subject Terms

The following terms have been used to describe this collection.

Subjects:

Actors--England--Biography.
Theater--England.

Persons:

Bateman, Kate Josephine, 1843-1917.
James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Preferred Citation

Researchers are requested to cite collection name, collection number, and Ohio University, Athens, Ohio in all footnotes and bibliographical references.

Processing Information

Holly Deakyne, May 2011