| Collection |
Marblehead Town History |
| Abstract |
1 PAGE 6 OF GENEALOGIES FROM ELIZABETH GERRY THROUGH EMMA HAMSON...
3-5 A LETTER TO DONALD M. STACEY, POSTMASTER DATED APRIL 13, 1955, FROM G.J.SCHMID...re: Marblehead's post office being the first...
7 MOVIE RECOLLECTIONS: by JSR ...some of the greatest of the silent films were filmed here in Marblehead...MARY PICKFORD, "America's Sweetheart" when she came to enact scenes for "Pride of the Clan"...MADGE EVANS made a movie here in 1918 with scenes filmed in Barnegat...
9-11 MORE MOVIE RECOLLECTIONS...9 MORE MOVIE RECOLLECTIONS...by JSR...the movie boom was on by 1913...FRED M. LIBBY, principal pioneer movie magnet here took over the Lyceum Theater, on Washington Street near the Old Town House...this theater was said to be the oldest continuous running theater in the country...in April of 1913 the Ware show in Abbot Hall featured the film, "Retreat From Moscow"...HORACE L. BROUGHTON, better known as "HODDY" was wowing them with his "Handtub Song". other movies at the time were: "THE CHAIN OF AN OATH", "THE SHERIFF OF YAVAPAI COUNTY", "OLIVER TWIST", "IVANHOE", OR "CAPTAIN KIDD"...IN AUGUST OF 1913 THE FIRST TALKING MOVIES WERE SHOWN AT THE LYCEUM...more on the history of movies in Marblehead...MARBLEHEAD WAS BECOMING THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED LOCALE IN THE MOVIES AND ITS FAME SPREAD AFAR...
11 PICTURE OF MARY PICKFORD AND MATT MOORE...in "THE CLAN"...PICTURE OF THE SCOTTISH FISHING VILLAGE SCENE ON LOCATION ...near Castle Rock...
13 DUPLICATE OF PAGE 7...
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| Home Location |
Shelf in Far Room |
| Object ID |
1961-003-05046 |
| Object Name |
Album |
| People |
Gerry, Family
Gilbert, Family
Girdler, Family
Glidden, Family
Glover, Family
Goodwin, Family
Goudey, Elizabeth
Grant, Family
Graves, Family
Green, Family
Greenleaf, Rebecca
Grose, Family
Grush, Family
Haley, Sarah
Hammond, Family
Stacey, Donald M.
Warwick, Robert
Pickford, Mary
Moore, Matt |
| Title |
Black Notebook #46 |
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