Theresa Helburn Theater Photography

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American playwright and theatrical producer Theresa Helburn (1887-1959) was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College class of 1908. Helburn had a long and distinguished career on Broadway and was a co-founder and producer of the New York Theatre Guild from 1919 to the 1950s. This collection includes over 1100 photographs related to Helburn's work on behalf of the Theatre Guild. Due to copyright restrictions, some images are restricted to the TriCollege community.

Collection Guide for the Theresa Helburn Collection
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The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : renovations, fireplace
Title:
The Lunts at home, fireplace
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
Jacobowsky and the colonel : three unidentified actors
Title:
Jacobowsky and the colonel : three unidentified actors
Description:
Actors from the 1944-1945 Theatre Guild production of S.N. Behrman's adaptation of the Franz Werfel play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel. This production played at the Martin Beck Theatre for 417 performances.
Date:
1944 - 1945
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
Make way for Lucia : Cyril Ritchard and Isabel Jeans
Title:
Make way for Lucia : Cyril Ritchard and Isabel Jeans
Description:
Isabel Jeans and Cyril Ritchard starred in the 1948 production of John Van Druten's Make Way for Lucia, which Van Druten also directed, at the Cort Theatre.
Date:
1948
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
A moon for the misbegotten : copy of design attributed to Robert Edmond Jones
Title:
A moon for the misbegotten : copy of design attributed to Robert Edmond Jones
Description:
Design for Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten by Robert Edmond Jones. An early production was staged at the Martin Beck Theatre.
Date:
1946
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : bedroom, featuring bed, drapes, and embroidered chair
Title:
The Lunts at home, and embroidered chair
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : view through door of vanity and sconces
Title:
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : view through door of vanity and sconces
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : library [?], featuring chessboard table, bookshelf, and framed tinsel prints
Title:
The Lunts at home, and framed tinsel prints
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : mirrored sitting room featuring settee, piano and painting of bouquet
Title:
The Lunts at home, piano and painting of bouquet
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : stairwell with Toulouse-Lautrec poster
Title:
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : stairwell with Toulouse-Lautrec poster
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. Stairwell with Toulouse-Lautrec poster (les chansonniers de montmartre). More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : dining room with fireplace and bust of woman in turban
Title:
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : dining room with fireplace and bust of woman in turban
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : table with candelabra and ceramic figurines
Title:
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : table with candelabra and ceramic figurines
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : Alfred Lunt and unidentified woman, unpacking china
Title:
The Lunts at home, unpacking china
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : Alfred Lunt and others have tea and cake
Title:
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : Alfred Lunt and others have tea and cake
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : view of bedroom window, featuring table, lamp, and chairs with embroidered upholstery
Title:
The Lunts at home, and chairs with embroidered upholstery
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : mirrored sitting room featuring fireplace, japanese painting and ceramic figurines
Title:
The Lunts at home, japanese painting and ceramic figurines
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : mirrored sitting room featuring settee, fluted column and pilaster
Title:
The Lunts at home, fluted column and pilaster
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : living room with lamps and lampshades, to be packed or unpacked
Title:
The Lunts at home, to be packed or unpacked
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
The Lunts at home, 150 East End Avenue : bedroom, marble fireplace with figurines and mirror
Title:
The Lunts at home, marble fireplace with figurines and mirror
Description:
Photograph taken at the New York City home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, 1950. More information about the Lunts is available through Ten Chimneys, their other home in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin. Preserved by the Ten Chimneys Foundation, it is now a a site for public tours, exhibits, play readings, education, and research.
Date:
1950
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
Publicity portrait of Helen Hayes
Title:
Publicity portrait of Helen Hayes
Description:
Publicity portrait (head shot) of Helen Hayes, c. 1940-1941. This date is very tentative, presumed to be from the later years of her activities with the Theatre Guild.
Date:
1940 - 1941
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography
Jane Eyre : character portrait of Katharine Hepburn in the title role
Title:
Jane Eyre : character portrait of Katharine Hepburn in the title role
Description:
Profile portrait of Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre, taken for the 1936-1937 Theatre Guild touring production of Helen Jerome's adaptation of Brontë's novel. The identity of the photographer is assumed from this print's similarities to others in the collection.
Date:
1936 - 1937
Collection:
Theresa Helburn Theater Photography

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