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Forge Theatre records
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Held at: Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area [Contact Us]204 Church St., Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 19460
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Forge Theatre is a nonprofit community theater group based in Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was formed in the Valley Forge area in 1962 and existed without a permanent location until acquiring the former F.B. Neiman and Sons Funeral Home in Phoenixville in the early 1970s. As of 2013, the group is still active, producing six shows a year.
Bibliography:
"Forge Theatre Draws Members from Professional, Amateur Ranks." The Pottstown Mercury. July 24, 1970.
Forge Theatre. "About." Accessed September 24, 2013. http://forgetheatre.org/about/
This collection includes scrapbooks, newsletters, meeting minutes, programs, certificates, and banners from the Forge Theatre group. Scrapbooks make up the bulk of the collection. They are organized chronologically, 1962-2003, and include newspaper clippings, ephemera and programs (some signed by actors), and photographs. There are two volumes of the group's newsletters, Sparks from the Anvil, April 1963 (volume 1, number 2) to 1996. There are also several volumes of administrative records from the 1970s, including board and general membership meeting minutes, financial records, and some correspondence. Lastly, this collection includes performance programs, several framed award certificates, and banners.
Gift of Forge Theatre, 2013.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area directly for more information.
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- Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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