Creator:
Shaktman, Ben, 1937-
Inclusive Dates:
1949- 2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American playwright and
director. Correspondence subject files; production material comprising research, notes,
costume sketches, and drafts for plays by Bertolt Brecht, Eugene O'Neill, Arnold Wesker, Ben Shaktman and others; manuscripts; printed material (posters, playbills, programs,
more); audiovisual material including audiotapes, photographs; material pertaining to Royal Court Theater in London, The Berliner Ensemble, Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), Theatre Nationale Populaire (TNP) in Paris, The National Endowment for the Arts; more
Type of Material:
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Drafts (documents)
Lecture notes.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Reviews (documents)
Scripts (documents)
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Theater programs.
Subject:
Directors.
Dramatists.
Dance and theatre
Popular culture
Acting -- Study and teaching.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Musicals -- Production and direction.
Television -- Production and direction.
Theater -- Production and direction.
Creator:
Street and Smith Publications.
Inclusive Dates:
1864- 1972
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing company, specializing in
popular literature. Collection includes internal records, manuscripts, radio scripts, books and periodicals of the
publishing company. Radio scripts include material for Doc Savage, Chick Carter-Boy Detective, Nick Carter and The
Shadow. There are also 16mm films of one episode of The Shadow.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Books.
Card files.
Comics.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Watercolors (paintings)
Periodicals.
Pulps (documents)
Radio scripts.
Sketches.
Vouchers (sales records)
Subject:
Chick Carter boy detective (Radio program)
Doc Savage.
Doc Savage (Radio program)
New Nick Carter weekly.
Nick Carter (Radio program)
Nick Carter weekly.
Shadow (Radio program)
Shadow comics.
Shadow magazine.
Yellow kid.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Popular culture
Literature -- American Fiction
Publishing, printing and book arts
Science fiction
Adventure stories, American -- Periodicals.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.
Dime novels -- Specimens.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular literature -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Radio serials.
Romance fiction, American -- Periodicals.
Science fiction, American -- Periodicals.
Western stories -- Periodicals.