Collection Number: MS 432
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John William Goelet born December 6, 1872 in Mobile, Alabama died, March 26, 1939 in Chicago Illinois. In his early years John played professional baseball. He was also an accomplished musician.
John petitioned and was initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason with the Olympia Lodge No. 864 of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in 1918 .
Under the stage name of Goelet and Hall, John and his wife Vera, were engaged in Vaudeville until he began have failing health in 1929. His wife and daughter, Jane, cared for him until his passing in 1939. John was buried in Orrick, Missouri.
Vera Jewel Hall born January 11, 1891 in Bonner Springs, Kansas , died May 16, 1971 in Palo Alto, California.
Vera began her career in Vaudeville, singing and dancing, at an early age becoming an actress along the way. Her stage name was Baby Hall, she was also referred to as Baby Vera Hall or Little Vera Hall. At some point Vera teamed-up with Ed Raymond performing as a song and dance team, stage name, Raymond and Hall.
On October 15, 1917 Vera married John “Billy” Goelet and they became known as Goelet and Hall in the world of Vaudeville. Their daughter, Jane Grey Hall was born August 18, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois. They continued performed their song and dance routines until John became ill in 1929, they left Vaudeville sometime in 1930.
Vera later married Daniel C. Braun and lived in Chicago, Illinois, until his passing in 1962. Vera moved to Menlo Park, California where she resided with her daughter Jane until her passing after a long illness, on May 18, 1971.
Photographs and Printed Material, 1896-1971 (bulk 1896-1929). The bulk of the material is comprised of photographs of Vera Hall throughout her career as Baby Hall, as part of the vaudeville act Raymond and Hall and as part of the vaudeville act Goelet and Hall. Photos of her husband and partner John William Goelet and her partner Edward Raymond are also included. The collection also contains printed material including theater programs and announcements, sheet music, newsletters, newspaper clippings and a scrapbook; documents including obituaries and a family tree; an audio tape of Jane Grey’s memories; artifacts including pins and clothes fasteners; and slides from a retrospective called a Salute to Vaudeville and of the family’s travels to Japan.
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Goelet Family Collection (MS 432).Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
| Series 1: Family 1925-1971 | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical. This series contains documents including obituaries and a family tree; an audio tape of Jane Grey’s memories; and artifacts including pins and clothes fasteners. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Family: Goelet, Jane Grey undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Family: Goelet, John William 1925 1939 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Family: Goelet, John William 1929 1971 undated | |||||||||
| Series 2: Printed Material 1899-1909 | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical. This series contains theater programs and announcements, sheet music, newsletters, newspaper clippings and a scrapbook which chronicles Vera Hall’s career. See Box 3 Folder 9 for oversize printed material. | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 4 | Printed Material: Hall, Vera Scrapbook, 1899-1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Printed Material: Hall, Vera Scrapbook, 1899-1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Printed Material: Newsletters, 1924 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Printed Material: Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1928 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Printed Material: Newsletters, 1924 1914 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Printed Material: Theater Programs and Announcements, 1910-1911 1910-1911 1915-1917 1925 undated | |||||||||
| Series 3: Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Goelet, John William, 1896-1929 | |||||||||||
| Alphabetical. This series contains personal and professional photographs of Vera Hall including her as Baby Hall, as part of the vaudeville act Raymond and Hall and as part of the vaudeville act Goelet and Hall. The series also contains photographs of John William (Billy) Goelet as a solo act and with the Harmony Trio, Jane Gray Goelet and various other vaudeville performers. Some of the photographs of other performers are autographed. Slides from a retrospective called a Salute to Vaudeville and of the family’s travels to Japan are also included. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Goelet, Jane Grey, undated | |||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Printed Material: Newspaper Clippings, 1917-1918 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Goelet, John William, 1917-1918 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Hall, Vera, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Hall, Vera, 1909 undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Hall, Vera, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Hall, Vera, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 7 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Hall, Vera, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Various Vaudeville Performers, 1929 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Goelet, John William, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs – Various Vaudeville Performers, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs - Various Vaudeville Performers, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs - Various Vaudeville Performers, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs - Various Vaudeville Performers, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Photographs and Slides: Photographs - Various Vaudeville Performers, 1925-1926 | |||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Photographs and Slides: Slides – Salute to Vaudeville, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Photographs and Slides: Slides – Travels to Japan, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 8 | Printed Material: Poster, undated | |||||||||