Theodore Dreiser
1926-06
A portrait photo of the author Theodore Dreiser. A note on the back of the photo from the donor, Myrtle R. Butcher, reads: "His mother and my grandma were sisters. Theodore Dreiser, my brother-in-law, Helen's husband, novelist. He passed away in 1945, California. Helen also, 1955. For years together, married 1944. Stevenson, Washington. I was there with them."
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- Description
- A portrait photo of the author Theodore Dreiser. A note on the back of the photo from the donor, Myrtle R. Butcher, reads: "His mother and my grandma were sisters. Theodore Dreiser, my brother-in-law, Helen's husband, novelist. He passed away in 1945, California. Helen also, 1955. For years together, married 1944. Stevenson, Washington. I was there with them."
- Provenance
- Found in collections. Likely donated by Gresham resident Myrtle Butcher, Dreiser's sister in law, who also gave an oral history to GHS in 1985. Dreiser was an American author and journalist in the Naturalist movement of early 1900s; he was considered by some to be one of the best American authors of his time. Myrtle Butcher was a trustee of Helen Dreiser's estate, which included the publishing rights to Theodore's novels, and was known for giving out copies of his novels at Christmas.
- Date
- 1926-06
- Subject
- Authors
- Portrait photographs
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs0862
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
Part of Theodore Dreiser
