Conspectus

Collection Details

Title Macauley's Theatre Collection (retired)
Archive SDC
Plugin edu.louisville.Macauley by University of Louisville
Base URL http://digital.library.louisville.edu/harvest/Macauley
Description The Macauley's Theatre Collection consists of 1527 photographic prints (mostly albumen and gelatin silver) of various sizes which originally hung in the lobby of Macauley's Theatre on Walnut Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky (1873-1952). Primarily studio portraits of actors and actresses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these images document the cultural history of Louisville and of theater during this time period, when Louisville was a major theatrical center, and Macauley's its major theatre.
Repository Type Not specified

Related Items

AccrualPeriodicity no longer
AccessRights unrestricted
Creator Macauley, John T., 1846-1915
Description The Macauley's Theatre Collection consists of 1527 photographic prints (mostly albumen and gelatin silver) of various sizes which originally hung in the lobby of Macauley's Theatre on Walnut Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky (1873-1952). Primarily studio portraits of actors and actresses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these images document the cultural history of Louisville and of theater during this time period, when Louisville was a major theatrical center, and Macauley's its major theatre.
Extent 2147483647
Format text/xml
Format image/tiff
HasPart Approximately 100 non-photographic items such as handbills and clippings belong to the collection, but have not been scanned.
Language eng
Publisher Louisville
Provenance After Macauley's Theatre was razed in 1925, Boyd Martin, drama critic for the Louisville Courier-Journal and director of the University of Louisville's University Players and Little Theatre Company, found a new home for the gallery of photographs at the Belknap Playhouse on the University of Louisville campus. Upon Martin's retirement in 1955, ownership of the photos was transferred to the University, with the approval of the Macauley family through John T. Macauley's daughter, Mary Macauley Smith. In 1966, the photos were removed from the Playhouse due to fears of vandalism, theft, and deterioration. When the Photographic Archives became an official department of the University Libraries in 1967, the Macauley pictures became a part of the Archives' collections.
Relation Related collections in Special Collections include theater programs; posters; an albumen print (by Rockwood) of a sketch (by W.W. Scott) of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, November 13, 1870 (Accession Number 1991.13); and copy negatives of portraits of "Colonel" Macauley as a young man and of his wife (Accession Number 1991.19).
Rights University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Spatial Louisville (Ky.)
Temporal 1860s-1930s 
<map>
  <entry>
    <string>plugin_config_props</string>
    <list>
      <org.lockss.daemon.ConfigParamDescr>
        <key>volume</key>
        <displayName>Volume No.</displayName>
        <type>6</type>
        <size>8</size>
        <definitional>true</definitional>
        <defaultOnly>false</defaultOnly>
      </org.lockss.daemon.ConfigParamDescr>
      <org.lockss.daemon.ConfigParamDescr>
        <key>base_url</key>
        <displayName>Base URL</displayName>
        <description>Usually of the form http://&lt;journal-name&gt;.com/</description>
        <type>3</type>
        <size>40</size>
        <definitional>true</definitional>
        <defaultOnly>false</defaultOnly>
      </org.lockss.daemon.ConfigParamDescr>
    </list>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>plugin_version</string>
    <string>12</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_name</string>
    <string>&quot;Louisville Macauley - &quot;</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_start_url</string>
    <string>&quot;%s/manifestIndex.html&quot;, base_url</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_crawl_depth</string>
    <int>999</int>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_def_new_content_crawl</string>
    <long>31449600000</long>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_def_pause_time</string>
    <long>6000</long>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>plugin_notes</string>
    <string>This plugin will enable the preservation harvesting of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives&apos; Macauley&apos;s Theatre Collection master scans and accompanying metadata. Compressed versions of these files are available online at http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/macauley.</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>plugin_name</string>
    <string>Louisville Macauley</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>plugin_identifier</string>
    <string>edu.louisville.Macauley</string>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <string>au_crawlrules</string>
    <list>
      <string>4,&quot;^%s&quot;, base_url</string>
      <string>1,&quot;^%s/manifestIndex.html&quot;, base_url</string>
      <string>1,&quot;^%s/?$&quot;, base_url</string>
      <string>1,&quot;^%s/Volume%.02d/&quot;, base_url, volume</string>
      <string>1,&quot;%s/Volume%.02d$&quot;, base_url, volume</string>
      <string>2,&quot;/\?&quot;</string>
    </list>
  </entry>
</map>
Parameter Values Status Copies
(Loading)