Name/Title
Card with photos Eugenia Clinchard, c. 1911Entry/Object ID
1985.39.1Description
Acc. No. 85.39.1
Subject Category: Citizens of Alameda
Date or Period: C. 1911
Object: Photos
Description: Booklet, brown colored cover with caption in ornate type on white colored stock "Eugenia Clinchard." Interior; 2 separate art panels of sepia tinted photographs (7 individual photos per panel).
Size: L-3 x W-6 1/2 inches.
History of Object: Card containing various theatrical poses of the child actress Eugenia Clinchard, of Alameda, Calif.
The following items are known as the Eugenia Clinchard collection. Donated to the museum by Genie (Eugenia) Clinchard Horton, former child star of stage & silent pictures who was born in Alameda in 1906 and attended school here (Glen Taylor & Alameda High School). Her father Fred B. Clinchard was employed by the Alameda Post Office for 35 years. Miss. Clinchard starred in several silent films made in Niles, California, with G. M. Anderson (Broncho Billy), an early cowboy star of the Essanay Company.
Acquired from:
Genie Horton
Date: 10-24-85
