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Forrest Theatre (New York, N.Y.). [Scrapbook of Tobacco road ephemera].

Title: [Scrapbook of Tobacco road ephemera]. ca. 1934-ca. 1955.

Containing mounted newspaper and magazine clippings, inscribed and signed portraits of the various actors who were part of the play's long Broadway run at the Forrest Theatre (i.e., Henry Hull, James Barton, James Bell, Sam Byrd, Ruth Hunter, Will Geer), stills, and several pieces of correspondence between Mr. Francis L. DeVallant and the actors and press representatives.

ArchivalResource: [80] p. : ill. (some col.), photos ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48126206 View

Hull, Henry, 1890-1977. Papers,1916-1965.

Title: Papers,1916-1965.

Fragmentary papers of a stage and screen actor and playwright including correspondence, movie and play reviews, biographical clippings, and annotated prompt books from several Broadway plays including "Tobacco Road" (1934) and "Masque of Kings" (1937).

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700161 View

Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View

Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957. Papers, 1899-1960 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1899-1960 (inclusive).

Collection includes letters from and about Hull, published music scores by Hull, and photographs. Letters from Hull concern her activities in the theater, her marriage, the sudden death of her husband, and mutual friends. Other letters are to her biographer from friends and colleagues and contain reminiscences of Hull.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007458 View

Meyer, Annie Nathan, 1867-1951. Annie Nathan Meyer papers, 1858-1950 (bulk 1885-1948).

Title: Annie Nathan Meyer papers, 1858-1950 (bulk 1885-1948).

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, reports, addresses, and miscellaneous items recording the major activities of Meyer's life. Correspondence (1880-1950) is the largest series, consisting of the general subseries arranged chronologically and containing Meyer's correspondence regarding her literary career and her participation in various social movements including her correspondence with significant American literary figures along with her numerous "Letters to the Editor"; and topical correspondence files, arranged alphabetically with a chronological sub-arrangement, representing the correspondents and subjects which Meyer considered to be of major importance. Manuscripts series (1895-1948; n.d.) contains the hand-written and typescript copies of many her published and unpublished works, divided into three subseries: monographs, plays, and short stories, sketches, essays, and addresses. Notes (1885-1945) consists of her bound notebooks, journals, and loose notes concerning her research on various topics, her impressions of some of her readings and activities, and her day-to-day thoughts. Personal material (1858-1959) is divided into two subseries: correspondence containing her correspondence with, and, or about her family on personal matters, including correspondence with her nephew, Robert Nathan, U.S. novelist and poet; and iconographic material containing photographs, postcards, and miscellaneous materials. Nearprint series (1895-1948) consists of loose clippings and scrapbooks of clippings, articles, and programs pertinent to Meyer's family and interests. Subjects and correspondents include Cyrus Adler, Dora Askowith, Barnard College, Pearl S. Buck, William C. Bullitt, Nicholas Murray Butler, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, James B. Corrant, Daughters of the American Revolution, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Erskin, Clifton Fadiman, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Isidor Hoffman, John Haynes Holmes, Herbert Hoover, Bronislaw Huberman, Henry Hull, Fannie Hurst, Zora Neale Hurston, Nathan Isaacs, James Weldon Johnson, Otto Herman Kahn, H.V. Kaltenborn, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Herbert H. Lehman, Joshua Loth Liebman, Isabel Ely Lord, Alfred Meyer, Henry Morgenthau, National Special Aid Society Home Economics Committee, New York Public Library Home Economics Advisory Committee, Ethan Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Oswald Garrison Villard, Wendel Lewis Willkie, Stephen Samuel Wise, and Israel Zangwill.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70925072 View

Bankhead family. Bankhead family photographs, 1930-1942.

Title: Bankhead family photographs, 1930-1942.

These photographs are official press photos made of Bankhead family members during the 1930s and 1940s. Most of them were made in Washington, D.C. Family members included in the collection are John Hollis Bankhead, Jr., William B. Bankhead, Florence McGuire Bankhead (William's second wife), Walter H. Bankhead, Tallulah Bankhead and Eugenia Bankhead. Most photographs are stills of family members made by associated press photographers. The majority of the photographs of Tallulah are publicity stills from movies in which she had a starring role.

ArchivalResource: 99 photographs (1 archives box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122352658 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

Women's Graduate Club Portrait Collection, c.1920-1930s.

Title: Women's Graduate Club Portrait Collection, c.1920-1930s.

Collection of 60 photographs and drawings of notable individuals of The Women’s Graduate Club which grew out of the 1895 Barnard Graduate Club

ArchivalResource: 60 items (0.5 cubic ft.)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_4080183 View