Family Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Sidney, George, 1916-2002
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content: George Sidney Collection
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content: George Sidney Collection / Series 1: Photographs, Photographic Negatives, and Slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1918-1950
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0867, Subseries 1.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries contains photograph albums and scrapbooks created by the Sidney family.  Six of the family photograph albums were created out of the commercially available black paper albums; there are few clippings in these albums.  The "House of Sidney" volumes are two scrapbooks apparently created on the occasion of George Sidney's employment by MGM and his subsequent move to California from New York.  There are two scrapbooks detailing a Sidney family trip to Hawaii in 1950; Sidney's parents and Jeanette McDonald figure prominently. Louis K. Sidney's scrapbook contains clippings of his theatre management career in such cities as St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit, Michigan; and Denver, Colorado.  Highlighted are marketing tactics, lobby displays, and press releases for a variety of motion pictures of the early twentieth century.  There is correspondence from the William Fox Company and clippings publicizing his marriage.