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Black and white photograph of Amanda Ira Aldridge. Born in 1866, she was the daughter of Shakespearean actor Ira Frederick Aldridge, who died in 1867. Amanda composed and published music in London under the pen name Montague Ring. Her mother was Ira…

Black and white photograph of Amanda von Brandt, second wife of Shakespearean actor Ira Frederick Aldridge.

Black and white photograph of the interior of McLeod Theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Black and white photograph of Archibald McLeod with cast members preparing for a performance in DuQuoin, Illinois, during their first tour. The verso reads: "1st tour of Illinois, 1953. Making up in the basement of the Grand Theatre, DuQuoin"

Black and white photograph of Irish poet William Butler Yeats at the age of seventy. As part of the Irish Literary Renaissance, Yeats helped establish the Abbey Theatre at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Black and white photograph of actress Maud Gonne, who inspired Irish audiences with her regal bearing in Cathleen ni Houlihan, written by W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory.

Color image of a painting of Abbey Theatre performer and patron Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz.