"Helping to depict history"
Title
"Helping to depict history "
Date
1963-07-02
Photographer
Wasko, Joseph
Subject
Museums Waxworks Costume designers Wax figures
Organization-Building
American Museum of Wax Figures and Graphics (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic Subject
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Personal Names
Donelson, Emily Tennessee, 1807-1836 Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849 Neu, Thea Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 Fennessey, Margaret
Description
American Wax Museum costume designer Thea Neu and her Philadelphia assistant Margaret Fennessey (seated) add touches to the ball gown of Emily Donelson , niece of President Jackson , after finishing the beribboned figure of Dolley Madison for an Inaugural Ball scene . Among the 100 other historical figure is that of poet Edgar Allan Poe , at right .
Original Notes
Title from clipping caption
Format
image/jp2
Type
Photographs
Publisher
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Local Rights Statement
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Standardized Rights Statement
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Repository
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Repository Collection
George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection
Collection ID
SCRC 170
Folder
Buildings--American Museum of Wax Figures and Graphics
Digital Collection
George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs
Digital Publisher
Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries.
Contact
scrc@temple.edu
Identifier
P057177B
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