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Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection, 1834-1989

Title: Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection 1834-1989

The Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection Addition consists of letters, manuscripts, printed material, and photographs documenting the life and career of Nathan's life and achievement in the theater, as an author, as a journalist, and as a pageant producer. Included in Series I are drafts of a children's book about Major John Andre, drafts of a novel, "What is a Man Profited," printed copies f newspaper columns by Nathan, motion picture scenarios programs for the Cellar Players and the Little Lyric Theatre, production materials for a number of pageants in such locales as Rochester, New York, Niagara Falls, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Included in Projects in Series II are notes chronicling Nathan's participation in the motion picture, Reds. Among the correspondents in Series III are Fannie Hurst, Padraic Colum, Leon Kroll, and Eugene O'Neill. Series IV. and V. contain various personal papers, such as scrapbooks, and photographs. Series VI comprises items from Nathan's sister, Elizabeth Gutman Kaye, a painter and singer of folk songs. Materials in this collection also document the history of the Gutman family, Jewish merchants in Baltimore during the turn of the 20th century.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 32; Other Storage Formats: Oversize; Linear Feet: 20.25

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection 1901-1987

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas collection 1901-1987

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ToklasCollection contains manuscripts, letters, photographs, clippings, artworks, andresearch materials relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and hercompanion, Alice B. Toklas gathered during the years following Stein's death tosupplement the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers (YCAL MSS 76). Itemsfrom such friends and admirers as Elizabeth Fuller Chapman, Doda Conrad,Clement Hurd, Samuel Steward, and Donald Sutherland complement the originalgroup of Stein papers. Series I, Writings, includes drafts of works byStein and several posthumously published items, along with a group of writingsby Alice B. Toklas. Series II, Correspondence, contains long runs of lettersfrom Stein to: Edward Aswell, Henry Phelan Gibb, William Garland Rogers, SamuelSteward, Donald Sutherland, and Virgil Thomson, all of which were acquired fromthe original recipients and several outgoing letters from Gertrude Stein andfrom Alice Toklas. Series III, Other Papers, contains research materialsfrom Stein scholars, files from the Atlantic Monthly concerning theirpublication of Stein's work, several musical settings of Stein works, and DodaConrad's files concerning a fund for Alice Toklas. Series IV and V containPrinted Materials and Series VI contains Photographs, some of Stein and Toklas,but principally of artworks owned by Stein and of posthumous productions ofStein plays. Series VII and VIII (Artworks and Objects), includes a collagepainting by Pablo Picasso and a number of paintings by Sir Francis Rose. SeriesIX, Film and Sound Recordings, contains a film of Stein and Toklas at the HotelPernollet in Belley France around 1927 and several audio recordings of Steinreadings her works.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes:40; OtherStorage Formats: Artworks, Objects, Recordings, Oversize; Linear Feet: 24

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers, 1837-1961

Title: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers 1837-1961

The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers contain manuscripts of writings, letters, clippings, photographs, artworks, and personal papers relating to the life and work of Gertrude Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, and to Gertrude's brother, Leo Stein, an artist and writer. As well as holding the bulk of Stein's literary output (often described as "experimental" or "cubist" writing), the materials document Stein and Toklas' involvement with the literary and art scene in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Series I, Writings, contains holograph and typescript drafts of the majority of Gertrude Stein's writings, including "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," "The Making of Americans" (complete with a quantity of notes, or "studies"), "Tender Buttons" and a group of unpublished fragments and carnets, notebooks kept by Stein with preliminary drafts of writings. Series II, Correspondence of Gertrude Stein, contains letters sent from a wide variety of Stein's friends: artists such as Georges Bracque, Jean Cocteau, and Pablo Picasso; writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and Thornton Wilder; and acquaintances through many years such as Mildred Aldrich, Etta and Claribel Cone, Robert Haas, Mabel Dodge Luhan,Sir Francis Rose, Virgil Thomson, and Carl Van Vechten. Series III, Third Party Letters and Series IV, Alice B. Toklas Correspondence, contain letters from many of the same people, the latter group containing Alice Toklas's correspondence following Gertrude Stein's death. Series V, Personal Papers, and Series VI, Clippings, gather together various personal affects of Stein and Toklas as well as documentation of Stein's life as reported during her lifetime. Series VII, Photographs, show Stein from early childhood through 1946, the year she died. Prints showing Alice Toklas, various friends, artworks, and locales are included in this series, as are several volumes of prints made by Carl Van Vechten. Series VIII and IX contain numerous artworks and objects given by Stein and Toklas. Included here are a painting by Pablo Picasso and a sketch by Henri Matisse.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 173; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, artwork, objects, cold storage; Linear Feet: 93

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