Signed Portraits Addressed to Dorothy Stone

The Betty M. Mitchell Collection includes three boxes of theatrical materials, plus a few books and bound volumes of sheet music used by Dorothy Stone and Charles Collins in various musicals and plays. The gift also contains a small assortment of items from Rex Beach, Charles's friend of many years, but the core of the collection consists of some critical early Broadway ephemera, including: multiple pictures of Fred and Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, photographs signed by famed entertainers such as Will Rogers and Alicia Alanova, photographic negatives, playbills, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, and magazines. By illuminating their Broadway and other theatrical accomplishments, this collection will help people gain a much better understanding of the importance of Fred Stone, his daughter Dorothy, and her husband, Charles, in the history of American entertainment of the early twentieth century.

This collection is divided into the following five series: News Clippings, Playbills, Scripts and Correspondence; Rex Beach Materials: Sheet Music; Photographs; and Books & Scrapbooks.