Photographs
name: label: Collection Donor
content: McIntire, Lani Ellen
label: Collection Creator
content: Mayo, Jean Alice, 1897-?
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content: McIntire Family Hawaiian Entertainers Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1920-1960, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1511, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs were oringinally housed in sleeves in four 3-ring notebooks "photograph albums", and a box of loose photographs. These notebooks contained ephemera and photogaphs and were arranged in no particular order. Scrapbook pages, personal papers, and ephemeral material was separated out and are contained in Series 2. Many photographs are publicity shots, headshots, promotional photographs, and photographs taken for news stories. There are a limited amount of candid, unposed photographs. Photographs include: Lani McIntire and his Orchestra his brothers Richard McIntire, Alfred McIntire, Alfred's daughters Lani Ellen McIntire and Rose "Kahala" McIntire, etc. One notebook contained photographs assembled by Jean Mayo, Alfred's wife who worked in vaudeville with such celebrities as Rudolf Valentino and in motion pictures in Hollywood during the Silent Film Era.She was the sister of Frank Mayo, silent film director and actor. The series is arranged by notebook.