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Richard Schechner Papers and The Drama Review Collection, 1960-2007 (bulk) 1943-2012 (inclusive)

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360 boxes and 2 items

Abstract:

The material in this collection pertains not only to an individual, Richard Schechner, but also to TDR, The Drama Review, a scholarly journal concerned with the broad range of performance in society and in the arts. Schechner, a renowned scholar, director, writer, and educator, edited The Drama Review from 1962-1969 and again from 1986 to the present date. Particularly in the 1960s, and again in the 1990s, both Schechner and TDR challenged traditional, prevailing ideas about theater-what it is, how it should be presented, and the ritual and ideals behind it. Schechner argued for thinking of "performance" as an all-encompassing genre with "theater" as one of its sub-categories. He is widely recognized as the founder of "performance studies" as an academic discipline. In the process of working out what performance studies is, Schechner and his colleagues at New York University created new ideas and new ways of thinking that still affect today's world of performance, theater, dance,...(see more)

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Mavis Kalmar Papers, 1917-1946 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

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Mavis Kalmar was an English stage actress. Her collection consists of correspondence (1917-1946), two diaries (undated), two sketchbooks, and photographs.

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Gipson Family Correspondence, 1911-1970 (inclusive) 1911-1947 (bulk)

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7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet

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Consists primarily of correspondence written by members of the Gipson family of Caldwell, Idaho, as contributions to a family chain letter.

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John G. Reynolds Journal, 1837 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of a journal containing daily notations and copies of correspondence between Reynolds and his military superiors and the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs during an emigration expedition (1837) of Creek Indians.

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Alfonso Ortiz Papers, 1926-1993 (inclusive) 1960s-1980s (bulk)

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86 boxes and 82.5 linear feet

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Consists of personal, professional, and academic papers of the Pueblo anthropologist Alfonso Ortiz (1939-1997), including correspondence, working files, and materials related to the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA).

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Virginia Card Papers, 1893-2002 (inclusive)

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17 boxes and 7.1 linear feet

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Virginia Card is a Native American of Delaware and Creek descent. Consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and audio-visual material. The collection is especially noteworthy for Virginia Card's extensive documentation of the activities of Native American communities in California.

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Navajo Mission Collection, circa 1895-1908 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of miscellaneous manuscripts and 143 photographs documenting the Navajo mission in San Juan County, New Mexico, that was started in 1891 by Mary L. Eldridge and M. E. Raymond.

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"Photographs of North American Indians" Albums, circa 1840-1879 (inclusive)

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10 boxes and 13.0 linear feet

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Consists of two disbound photograph albums containing 1,025 mounted albumen photographs of various Indigenous peoples of North America, including portraits of delegates to Washington, D.C.; expedition photographs; and early Western studio portraits by American photographers. Most of the photographs in the albums are described in the Numerical Index of William Henry Jackson's Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of North American Indians (1877), which is pasted to the albums.

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L. Ashton Sly Collection of Musical Scores, 1922-1958 (inclusive)

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8 boxes

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The L. Ashton Sly Collection of Musical Scores is a 137 volume collection of vocal scores and/or libretti for one hundred twenty-three musical comedies, comic operas, and operettas, including twenty-eight full production promptbooks. These are arranged alphabetically by title and housed in 8 record center cartons.

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Carl W. Jones Magic Collection, 1870s-1948 (inclusive)

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4 boxes, 122 items, and 1.85 linear feet

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Consists of three scrapbooks of publicity photographs--compiled by C. A. George Newmann and collected by Carl W. Jones--of some 19th- but mainly 20th-century mentalists, magicians, ventriloquists, and illusionists.

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Mathews Family Papers, 1815-1865 (bulk) 1790-1878 (inclusive)

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7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet

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Consists of papers of the Mathews family, a 19th-century English theatrical family whose members performed and wrote for the stage and achieved fame as gifted mimics and comedians. Much of the correspondence in the collection is between the family members. Also included are manuscripts of autobiographies written by both the father and son, as well as some manuscripts of monologues, songs, roles, and music.

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William Charles Macready Collection, 1810-1866 (inclusive) 1825-1855 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.45 linear feet

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William Charles Macready (1793-1873) was an English actor and theater manager. The collection consists of selected correspondence, letters written by members of his family, and some letters, articles, and miscellaneous documents about him. A significant number of letters (45) are from Macready's friend, William Frederick Pollock.

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Blaney Melodramas, 1896-1944 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 2 linear feet

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Consists mainly of typescripts of melodramas written by American dramatist Charles E. Blaney.

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Julia Marlowe Collection, 1909-1950 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.8 linear feet

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Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), who was also known as Sarah Frances Frost, was an American actress and Shakespearean performer. Her collection consists chiefly of letters to Ida Rissland Perscheid. Also included are photographs of both Marlowe and her husband, E. H. Sothern, articles by and about them, memorabilia, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

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C. Leroy Ellenberger Correspondence Concerning Immanuel Velikovsky, 1978-1984 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of the correspondence of C. Leroy Ellenberger, one-time advocate and now critic of Immanuel Velikovsky, which relate to an article he published in the journal Kronos regarding the publication of Velikovsky's Stargazers and Gravediggers: Memoirs to Worlds in Collision (1983).

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Arthur J. Pilgram Papers, circa 1910-1930 (inclusive)

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5 boxes and 2.5 linear feet

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The Papers contain manuscripts, lists, and notes of American author and historian Arthur Julian Pilgram (Princeton Class of 1902) for his six-volume work, Military Compendium of Napoleon and His Armies, which covers the Napoleonic and Spanish Wars and the history and organization of the French army.

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Daniel Wadsworth Coit Letters, 1819-1851 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists primarily of photostatic copies of the letters (1815-1828, 1844-1851) by American banker Daniel Wadsworth Coit to his family in Connecticut--from Lima, Peru, and various cities in Europe, and from the Western United States, Mexico, and San Francisco, California. This collection is also available online at Digital PUL.

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Short Stories of Dorothy M. Johnson, 1948-1950 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of selected manuscripts and some correspondence of Dorothy M. Johnson, a writer of Western fiction.

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The Italian Madrigal, by Alfred Einstein, 1949 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

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Consists of the German manuscript of, and other material related to, The Italian Madrigal (1949) by the German-American musicologist Alfred Einstein.

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Intermission, by Calvin Tomkins, 1947-1951 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

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Consists of manuscripts of Calvin Tomkins (Princeton Class of 1947) for his first novel, Intermission (1951).

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