Life and Times of Actress EJ Phillips 1880s & 1890s 
Her dramatic career, cross-country travels, family life,  
Golden Age of the  American theatre, 19th century technologies & Arrival of the  20th century  
Em Turner Nickinson Kuhl and Mary Glen Kuhl Chitty

Elizabeth Jane Phillips Nickinson  1830-1904   
Photographs, playbills, maps & artifacts  Film   EJP's 140 year old quilt 
 About these letters   Cast of characters    John Nickinson    Dolman Family EJ Phillips in The Rivals as Mrs. Malaprop, Chestnut St Theatre Philadelphia 1877

Acting life & profession   Plays   Playwrights  Theatres  Theatre companies & managers   Gilbert (& Sullivan)    Oscar Wilde, Vera the Nihilist & Lady Windermere's Fan 
Costumes, street wear & children's clothes
Health & Medicine   Sarah Bernhardt's cold prevention recipe  Pregnancy & Childbirth
Houses, Boarding Houses & Housekeeping  Food  Hotels & hotel life   Babies & single parenthood  
History  Civil War   Bartholdi Day & the Statue of Liberty  1886  Centennial George Washington's Inauguration 1889  Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
Money   Newspapers   Politics  
Railroads  Strenuous  travel   Climbing Pike's Peak 1883   Train wrecks  An EJ Phillips' 21st century railroad trip                    
Recreations & sports   Baseball   Bicycles   Dancing   Fishing   Horse racing & driving  Sleighing   Swimming 
RUM & drinking    Slang
Telecommunications & other technologies   Air conditioning  Electricity   Photography   Transportation   Typewriters                                               

Cities  Baltimore   Boston   Buffalo   Chicago   Cincinnati   Denver   Los Angeles   Middletown NY   Montreal   New Orleans   New York Walking Tour   Omaha  Philadelphia   Portland Oregon   Salt Lake City   San Francisco   Seattle   Toronto   Vancouver   Washington DC   Historic tourism 

Letters 1883-1901   Arrival of the Twentieth Century    EJ Phillips now on Facebook  become a fan

A to Z l index    Bibliography    Chronology    Family    People    Places  Site Map       

This site is a treasury of late 19th century American theatrical information, with copious links to major theatrical figures, theatres and productions of the period.  Theatre History on the Web 19th century resources, Jack Wolcott   http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jw19th.html#resources

This page last updated Nov 26 2011  Contact us mgchitty@gmail.com  On the web since 2003.

This is the latest updated 2011 version of the EJ Phillips website. I've been unable to update the version at  http://mysite.verizon.net/vze85s68/  since April 2005.