This cabinet card features an unidentified flower adorned actress. She is photographed by Falk, a well known celebrity photographer in New York City. The photograph is dated 1886. To view other photographs by Falk, click on the category “Photographer: Falk”. ADDENDUM: An informed visitor to the cabinet card gallery has identified this actress as Belle Archer (see comment below).
This is a portrait of actress Belle Archer, who made a great hit on tour in Hoyt’s musical comedy, “A Contented Woman.” I’ve seen several portraits of her, and there is no doubt. I am a retired theater professor and theater historian. Belle Archer will appear in a book I am writing about the professional touring theater in the Arizona Territory.
Belle Archer born Arabella Minlgle 05.09.1858, after a fall at a railway station on 17th September she died two days later on 19.09.1900 aged 42yrs.
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The unidentified actress is definitely Belle Archer. See the portraits of her in the NYPL Digital Collections. Tom Collins