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Collection Title:
Creator:
Abarbanell, Lina, 1879-1963.
Inclusive Dates:
1873-1940
Abstract:
Signed photograph from the German-American Jewish opera singer, and theater programs from performances in Broadway and in London
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Broadsides (notices)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
London (England)
Dance and theatre
Music
Ensemble theater.
Actresses.
Actors.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Opera -- United States.
Singers -- Biography.
Vaudeville.

Creator:
Actors' Equity Association.
Inclusive Dates:
1919-1928
Abstract:
Correspondence of actors, actresses, directors, producers, and playwrights, including that of Heywood Broun, Richard Carle, Sheldon Cheney, Ernest H. Culbertson, Dudley Digges, Kenneth MacGown, Josephine A. Meyer, Channing Pollock, Arthur Richman, Joseph Santley, Blanche Yurka, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Radio, television, film
Popular culture
Dance and theatre
Theater -- United States.
Labor unions -- Actors -- United States.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951.
Inclusive Dates:
1884-1951
Abstract:
Correspondence, some in French and Russian, telegrams, scrapbooks, photograph albums, costume sketches, and other materials relating to the San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, and others. Correspondents include Agnes De Mille, Romola Nijinsky, Ruth Page, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Silent films.
Phonograph records.
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Ballet dancers.
Choreographers.
Dance and theatre
Ballet.
Ballet companies.
Ballet dancers.
Ballets -- Photographs.
Choreographers.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Broder, I. Robert.
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Papers of the American attorney.
Type of Material:
 
Subject:
Lawyers.
Dance and theatre
Radio, television, film
Lawyers -- United States.

5.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bullins, Ed
Inclusive Dates:
1970-1970
Abstract:
Typscripts of various plays, published and unpublished.
Type of Material:
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
How do you do.
Dialect determinism.
It has no choice.
A minor scene.
The corner.
The Gentleman caller.
The helper.
The man who dug fish.
Miss Marie.
The game of Adam and Eve.
The theme is blackness.
Dramatists.
African Americans
Dance and theatre
Radicalism
Literature -- American Fiction
African American dramatists.
American literature -- African American authors.
Black Arts Movement -- United States.
One-act plays -- American.
Radicalism in literature.
Revolutionary literature -- American.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987
Inclusive Dates:
1936-1942
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, dramatist, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, short story writer. Correspondence, financial records, writings, notes, telegrams, manuscripts, and memorabilia, spanning the seven years of the author's professional and personal relationship with photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
Type of Material:
Bank statements.
Bills of sale.
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Press releases.
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Life (New York, N.Y.)
New Masses.
PM (New York, N.Y.)
Authors.
Dramatists.
Journalists.
Novelists.
Screenwriters.
Radicalism
Journalism
Dance and theatre
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Dramatists -- United States.
Journalists -- Family relationships.
Journalists -- United States.
Novelists, American.
Photographers -- United States.
Screenwriters -- United States.
Short stories, American -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation)

Creator:
California Labor School.
Inclusive Dates:
1944-1950
Abstract:
Printed material including programs, course bulletins, pamphlets.
Type of Material:
Course catalogs.
Librettos (documents for music)
Programs (documents)
Subject:
Trial by jury.
Dance and theatre
Radicalism
Activism and social reform
Radicalism in literature.
Socialism and education -- United States.
Socialism and theater -- United States.
Theater -- Political aspects.

Creator:
Chicago Repertory Group
Inclusive Dates:
1933-1943
Abstract:
Advertisements, correspondence and original scripts from the social theater group
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Correspondence.
Scripts (documents)
Posters.
Subject:
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Radicalism
Dance and theatre
Radicalism in literature.
Repertory theater -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Theater -- Political aspects.
Theater and society.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Chodorov, Jerome.
Inclusive Dates:
1941-1967
Abstract:
American playwright, director, short story author and librettist. Collection contains manuscripts of plays, screenplays, teleplays, and a few short stories; also a small amount of biographical material, correspondence and ephemera.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts (document genre)
Scripts (documents)
Subject:
Dramatists.
Librettists.
Dance and theatre
Dramatists, American -- 20th century.
Librettists -- United States.

Creator:
Dave Salmon, Inc.
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1957
Abstract:
Dave Salmon Inc. was a promoter of fine arts performances in Syracuse, NY. The scrapbook contains programs and tickets for plays, operas, concerts, lectures, and variety performances in the 1940s and 1950s. There are also a few pages of correspondence and draft advertising copy, and a few photographs.
Type of Material:
Theater programs.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Admission tickets.
Photographs.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) Social life and customs.
Promoters.
New York State
Dance and theatre
Concert programs -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Nineteen forties.
Nineteen fifties.
Popular culture -- New York (State) -- Syracuse
Theater programs, New York (State), Syracuse.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Dodson, John E., 1857-1931
Inclusive Dates:
1857-1931
Abstract:
A letter likely written by the English actor and vaudeville performer.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Actors.
New York State
Dance and theatre
Vaudeville -- New York (State) -- New York.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966
Inclusive Dates:
1942-1949
Abstract:
Raymond Duncan, brother of famed dancer Isadora Duncan. Letters to/from, clippings and other printed material about.
Type of Material:
Programs (documents)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Posters.
Subject:
Dancers.
Philosophers.
Educators.
Dance and theatre
Religion and philosophy
Education -- Philosophy.
Bohemianism.

Creator:
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
Inclusive Dates:
1936-1938
Abstract:
Collection of play scripts, bibliographies, photographs, from the United States Work Projects Administration's Federal Theatre Project
Type of Material:
Bibliographies.
Photographs.
Scripts (documents)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Radicalism
Dance and theatre
American drama -- 20th century.
Drama -- Bibliographies.
Folk songs -- Mississippi.
Political plays, American.
Radicalism in literature.
Socialism and theater.
Theater -- Political aspects.
Theater and state.

14.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Garis, Roger, 1901-1967.
Inclusive Dates:
1855-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the American author and journalist. Correspondence (1932-1965) with family, authors, editors, publishers, lawyers, and literary agents; Garis family photographs and memorabilia; typescript articles, autobiograpy, essays, fiction, and plays. Correspondents include Brooks Atkinson, Josephine Lawrence, Arthur Mizener, José Quintero, Christiane Renauld, and Edward Barry Roberts.
Type of Material:
Autobiographies (literary works)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Photographs.
Subject:
Authors.
Dramatists.
Literature -- American Fiction
Dance and theatre
Radio, television, film
Authors, American.
Dramatists, American.

15.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Genée, Adeline, 1878-1970
Inclusive Dates:
1940-1940
Abstract:
A letter by the Danish and British ballet dancer.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Bernardsville (N.J.) -- History.
Ballet dancers.
Ballerinas.
Dance and theatre
Ballerinas -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.

16.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Golden, Joseph, 1928-
Inclusive Dates:
1957-1967
Abstract:
Papers of the American author, dramatist. Collection includes typescript drafts and revisions of books, plays, and television scripts.
Type of Material:
Manuscripts for publication.
Scripts (documents)
Television scripts.
Subject:
Authors.
Dramatists.
Dance and theatre
Literature -- American Fiction
Popular culture
American drama -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Dramatists, American.

Creator:
Graham, Peter S.
Inclusive Dates:
1968-1998
Abstract:
Printed material, clippings, souvenirs, etc. related to African-American singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
Type of Material:
Brochures.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Instructional materials.
Programs (documents)
Subject:
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Activism and social reform
African Americans
Dance and theatre
Music
Radio, television, film
Actors -- United States.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Singers -- United States.

18.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Green, Roger Lancelyn.
Inclusive Dates:
1945-1945
Abstract:
Handwritten manuscript, a translation into English of Ichneutae, one of Sophocles' fragmentary plays, by British author Roger Lancelyn Green
Type of Material:
Manuscripts (document genre)
Subject:
Ichneutae.
Dance and theatre
Literature -- British
Authors -- English.
Greek drama.
Greek drama -- Translations into English.
Myth in literature.
Satyr plays.

19.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Harrington, Frances Ward -- collector.
Inclusive Dates:
1889-1889
Abstract:
Advertisement and souvenir card from 50th performance of The Oolah comic opera in New York City's Broadway Theatre, collected by Francis Ward Harrington.
Type of Material:
Advertisements.
Souvenir programs.
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
The oolah.
Dance and theatre
New York State
Opera.

20.

Collection Title:
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Inclusive Dates:
1938-1940
Abstract:
Printed material and manuscripts from productions of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union satirical musical revue.
Type of Material:
Programs (documents)
Scores.
Songbooks.
Subject:
Pins and needles.
Dramatists.
Lyricists.
Dance and theatre
Labor unions and the arts.
Political plays, American.
Radicalism in literature.
Revues -- United States.
Socialism and literature -- United States.
Socialism and theater.
Theater -- Political aspects.