black-and-white negative: Ishi at the Orpheum Theater, San Francisco 1912. A San Francisco call reporter for the SF Call newspaper did the photography. Published: Olson, Joan and Gene 1971, California Times and Trails, p. 71. Copy of 13-955.
Donor:
Eugene R. Prince and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Orpheum Theater (1909-1929), San Francisco, California
Culture or time period:
Yana
Maker or artist:
Eugene R. Prince
Collection date:
1911
Materials:
Acetate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Production date:
1911
Accession date:
1966
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
height 4 inches and width 5 inches
Comment:
Ishi, Sam Batwi, wife of newspaper reporter(?) (front row, left to right) Lilly Lena(?), Alfred Kroeber, Thomas T. Waterman, newspaper reporter (back row, left to right) Lilly Lena was an English singer, known as the "London Songbird." She was known for her "kaleidoscopic" costume changes. She gave Ishi a piece of gum as a "token." -From an article by Grant Wallace, "Ishi, the Last Aboriginal Savage in America Finds Enchantment in Vaudville Show." San Francisco Sunday Call, Magazine section, Part I, October 8, 1911.