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Held at: Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection [Contact Us]

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

The collection consists of files (clippings, programs, books, caricatures, etc.) on people involved in theater, from the mid-19th century through the late 1980s). Includes actors (Charlotte Cushman, Maude Adams, the Booth Family, the Barrymores, Katharine Hepburn), dramatists, directors, and scholars (Jose Ferrer, Alan S. Downer, Anton and Michael Chekhov), as well as designers. Also contains related material such as clippings on the 1919 Actors' Strike, and several files on Shakespeare, including programs, articles, photos, and engravings.

Arranged alphabetically by name.

Publisher
Rare Book Collection
Finding Aid Date
2002
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

A - Ayers, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

B - Brown, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Buñuel - Crane, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Crowther - Downer, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Draper - Fonda, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Forbes - Giraudoux, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Gish - Hudspeth, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

I - Lord, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Lubitsch - Marceau, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Marlowe - Norkin, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

O - Poe, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Polan - Robson, E., dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Robson, F. - Shakespeare (programs), dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Shakespeare (miscellaneous), dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Shaw - Stowe, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Stratford-upon-Avon - Vokes, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

W - Winter, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Wolfe - Z, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

A - Chapman, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Claxton - Duse, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Forrest - Heywood, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Hitchcock - Kemble, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Kendal - Morris, C., dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Morris, F. - Ravel, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

Russell - Wilson, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

A - Z, dates not examined. 1 box.
Physical Description

1 box

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