Photograph, Theater - Jitney Players Actress Patricia Barclay
1920s
9 1/8 in. H
X
6 11/16 in. W
Black and white photograph of a Jitney Players actress, Patricia Barclay. Photograph is labeled on the back with most of the writing crossed out.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. First held outdoors in 1918 and later in a barn, the plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WW I relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy. The Jitney Players were founded in 1923 by Alice Keating Cheney and her husband, Horace Bushnell Cheney. They were headquartered at the Talcott Bradley House on Boston Post Road.
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