Skip to main content

Box 1

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

original notebook cover, ca. 1940s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Original cover of notebook containing Janis memorabilia.

Dates: ca. 1940s

pamphlet, "Little Elsie Janis" (1 item), ca. 1900

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Booklet with photographs and press reviews for Elsie Janis when she was a child star.

Dates: ca. 1900

photographs published in magazines (3 items) , ca. 1905-1915

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes photo of Elsie Janis in "The Fair Co-Ed" and two others.

Dates: ca. 1905-1915

manuscripts (4 items), 1916-1942, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes three original manuscript notes authored by Elsie Janis (1916, 1941, 1942), and one note authored by a representative or manager for Janis (1931). There is also a pamphlet regarding "Historic Philipsie Manor" (undated), one of her homes, and a brochure regarding "Sleepy Hollow County" where the Philipsburg Manor is located.

Dates: 1916-1942, undated

typescripts of articles regarding Janis (2 items), 1939

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of articles, likely for a newspaper, regarding Elsie Janis.

Dates: 1939

photographs (6 items), ca. 1910-1920

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes three photographs of Elsie Janis, one of her father John Bierbower, one of her brother Percy Bierbower, and one of her home Phillipse Manor, Sleepy Hollow, New York (formerly named North Tarrytown).

Dates: ca. 1910-1920

newspaper clippings, ca. 1920-1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

30 pages of clippings regarding the professional career and personal life of Elsie Janis.

Dates: ca. 1920-1948

newspaper clippings (includes obituaries), 1956, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

3 pages of clippings; 1 page includes two obituaries.

Dates: 1956, undated

miscellaneous material, 1978-1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes miscellaneous letters regarding Bierbower family history and genealogy.

Dates: 1978-1979