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2215 S. 3rd Street, Louisville, KY 40208
Between 1880 and 1930, many ordinary people kept theatrical scrapbooks that documented their theater attendance and their interest in specific stars. Often discarded, the hundreds of scrapbooks that survived to this day in theatrical archives remain a radically underused resource for understanding the history of theater and of celebrity culture. This talk begins by briefly outlining several ways that nineteenth-century fans sought intimacy with celebrities and then focuses on the theatrical scrapbook as a way for members of the public to assert agency over print media and to create a fantasmatic but materially palpable space within which they could approach celebrity.
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