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Ray Henderson papers, 1904-1937

Title: Ray Henderson papers 1904-1937

Ray Henderson, advance man and publicist, promoted many of the well-known actors of the early 20th century, among them George Arliss, Katharine Cornell and E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. His papers document this relationship with these theatrical personalities through correspondence, press releases, clippings and tour materials.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21476 View

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946. Claude Bragdon scenic designs 1923-1938.

Title: Claude Bragdon scenic designs 1923-1938.

88 original designs and 4 prints, for 11 productions on which Claude Bragdon collaborated with Walter Hampden from 1923-1938.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (92 drawings) : col. ; 65 x 85 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713874534 View

Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955. Autograph letter signed Walter Hampden to: "Miss Pendleton" June 26, 1926.

Title: Autograph letter signed Walter Hampden to: "Miss Pendleton" June 26, 1926.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815710 View

Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907. Richard Mansfield family papers, 1856-1940, bulk (1905-1940).

Title: Richard Mansfield family papers, 1856-1940, bulk (1905-1940).

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, legal documents, drawings, photographs, printed matter, and other Mansfield family papers.

ArchivalResource: 8.75 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346255 View

Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935. Francis Wilson papers, 1875-1958.

Title: Francis Wilson papers, 1875-1958.

The collection contains correspondence, speeches, accounts, clippings, scripts and other papers reflecting the personal and professional life of Francis Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 lin. ft. (8 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598369 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796453 View

Claude Bragdon scenic designs, 1923-1938

Title: Claude Bragdon scenic designs 1923-1938

Architect, stage designer, and writer Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) worked as an architect in Rochester, New York City, and Buffalo, before moving to New York City in 1923, where he worked primarily as stage designer. Bragdon designed for several shows produced by actor and theatrical manager Walter Hampden. Bragdon was also the author of several books on architecture, design, and theosophy. 88 original designs and 4 prints, for 11 productions on which Claude Bragdon collaborated with Walter Hampden from 1923-1938. Includes a doorway design by Bragdon, and his own signs and captions for an exhibition of his scene and costume designs in 1938.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (92 drawings)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/22055 View

Dyne, Michael. Studio one-- "Two little minks" : a Christmas fable / especially written for Studio one by Michael Dyne ; based on a story by Lisa Osten.

Title: Studio one-- "Two little minks" : a Christmas fable / especially written for Studio one by Michael Dyne ; based on a story by Lisa Osten. 1954.

ArchivalResource: 87 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23282980 View

Rogers Memorial Collection: Henry Munroe Rogers papers, 1812-1937 (inclusive), 1862-1937 (bulk).

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Henry Munroe Rogers papers, 1812-1937 (inclusive), 1862-1937 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of Boston lawyer Henry M. Rogers, with an emphasis on the theater and the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 21.5 linear feet (39 boxes, 2 portfolio boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01508/catalog View

Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955. Letter : New York, to Arthur N. Taft, Colorado Springs, 1922 July 11.

Title: Letter : New York, to Arthur N. Taft, Colorado Springs, 1922 July 11.

Responding to Taft's praise for Hampden's performance in Othello and with the staging of the play; Hampden goes into detail about the stage lighting.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316061167 View

Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955. [Letter] 1930 Jun. 19, 16 Gramercy Park, New York [to] Marjory P. Nield / Walter Hampden.

Title: [Letter] 1930 Jun. 19, 16 Gramercy Park, New York [to] Marjory P. Nield / Walter Hampden.

Hampden writes Nield providing her with information about "Playchoice ... an organization for the choice and fostering of the best theatrical productions."

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231685962 View

Richard Mansfield family papers, 1856-1940, 1905-1940

Title: Richard Mansfield family papers 1856-1940 1905-1940

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, legal documents, drawings, photographs, printed matter, and other Mansfield family papers. Papers are largely personal in nature with the bulk being Beatrice Cameron's papers. Other members of the family represented in the collection are Hermine Rudersdorff, Richard Mansfield's mother, and George Gibbs Mansfield, the Mansfields' son. Writings are plays and poems; family papers include diaries, daybooks, address books, photographs, drawings, blueprints, and newspaper clippings

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1863 View

Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Title: Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Papers of American poet and feminist Josephine Preston Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00982/catalog View

Papers, [ca. 1890-1955]

Title: Papers, [ca. 1890-1955]

Prompt books and scripts, letters, photographs, notices, reviews, programs, ledgers, blueprints, and drawings. Records of the Walter Hampden Company, including theater contracts and leases, box office statements, production cost lists, route books, stockholder records, and clipping books. Also, photographs and biographical sketches of leading members of the Comédie-Française when Hampden studied with Georges Berr and Eugène Sylvain; souvenir programs and photographs of productions at London's Adelphi Theatre; and photographs and notices of Mabel Moore (Mrs. Walter Hampden).

ArchivalResource: ca. 60 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155508085 View

Crawford, Jack Randall, b. 1878. Crawford Theater collection, 1663-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Crawford Theater collection, 1663-1992 (inclusive).

The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 464 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154808 View

William Archer Collection, 1868-1990

Title: William Archer Collection 1868-1990

ArchivalResource: 286 folders (16 boxes) , 8 prints, 46 volumes and 1 small card catalogue box

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb71-thm/368 View

John Powell Lenox collection, 1887-1924

Title: John Powell Lenox collection 1887-1924

John Powell Lenox (1851-1926) was an American lecturer and author. Collection consists of correspondence relating to Lenox's collection of pictures clipped from magazines, newspapers and other sources relating to the life of Christ. Correspondents include Abraham Archibald Anderson, Otto Walter Beck, Edward A. Fellowes-Prynne, Henry Clay Frick, Edgar J. Goodspeed, Lord Ronald Gower, Walter Hampden, William S. Hart, Burton Holmes, Victor F. Lawson, Caleb Arnold Slade, Franklin Hamilton Spearman, Augustus Vincent Tack, Henry Van Dyke, and Payne Whitney.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3448 View

Randolph Somerville collection of autographed photographs, circa 1880s-1940

Title: Randolph Somerville collection of autographed photographs circa 1880s-1940

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21903 View

Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955. Autograph letter signed Walter Hampden to: Professor Palmer April 26, 1927.

Title: Autograph letter signed Walter Hampden to: Professor Palmer April 26, 1927.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815709 View

John Powell Lenox collection, 1887-1924.

Title: John Powell Lenox collection, 1887-1924.

Collection consists of correspondence relating to Lenox's collection of pictures clipped from magazines, newspapers and other sources relating to the life of Christ.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164273 View

Francis Wilson papers, 1875-1958

Title: Francis Wilson papers 1875-1958

The collection contains correspondence, speeches, accounts, clippings, scripts and other papers reflecting the personal and professional life of Francis Wilson. Wilson carried on an active correspondence with many contemporaries prominent in the theatrical or literary field. The large series of speeches illustrates his wide-ranging interests. There is material on the plays in which he appeared, especially ERMINIE, and information on his involvement with the Players Club, but very little documenting his role as first president of the Actors' Equity Association or on the pivotal strike he led in 1919. The main political battle documented in these papers is Wilson's efforts to keep child actors out from under the jurisdiction of state labor laws. There is also some information on Wilson's family and his personal financial transactions.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21454 View

Glaenzer, Richard Butler, 1876-1937. Papers of Richard B. Glaenzer [manuscript], 1885-1936.

Title: Papers of Richard B. Glaenzer [manuscript], 1885-1936.

The collection contains a manuscript, typescripts, and a galley for articles, introductions, and reviews by Glaenzer together with an article about Glaenzer [in the hand of William Lyon Phelps?], photographs and prints, and some miscellaneous items including "The art of James Branch Cabell" by Walpole and "James Branch Cabell" By H. L. Mencken. Correspondents include Achmed Abdullah, Franklin P. Adams, Hervey Allen, Robert Gordon Anderson, D. Appleton & Co., William Rose Benét, Edwin Björkman, Boston Evening Telegraph, Arthur Brisbane, Heywood Broun, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ellis Parker Butler, S. Parkes Cadman, Bennett Cerf, Robert W. Chambers, Charles Chaplin, Irvin S. Cobb, Marc Connelly, Hamilton Cosmo, Charles B. Davis, Charles Scribner's Sons, Homer Croy, and Richard Harding Davis. Also Floyd Dell, John Dewey, Doubleday, Page & Company, Theodore Dreiser, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Arthur Guiterman, Henry K. Hadley, Walter Hampden, Joseph Hergesheimer, Don Herold, Mary Alden Hopkins, Fannie Hurst, Will Irwin, and Robert Underwood Johnson. Also Otto Kahn, Alfred A. Knopt, Alfred Kreymborg, Robert M. LaFollette, Ring Lardner, Richard Le Gallienne, George B. Luks, Robert M. McBride, S. S. McClure, Don Marquis, Edgar Lee Masters, H. L. Mencken, Gouverneur Morris, Frank Papé, Maxfield Parrish, William Lyon Phelps, Will Rogers, and Charles M. Schwab. Also Gilbert Seldes, Otis Skinner, Otto Soglow, Donald Ogden Stewart, Julian Street, Tiffany Thayer, Dan Totheroh, Charles H. Towne, Carl Van Doren, Harriet Shaw Weaver, E. B. White, Robert R. Whiting, James Southall Wilson, and Florence Wyman.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647979263 View

Wilson, J. P., d.1958. J. P. Wilson papers, 1901-1958.

Title: J. P. Wilson papers, 1901-1958.

Consists primarily of letters to actor J. P. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: (1 portfolio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615363 View

Theater collection, 1849-1964.

Title: Theater collection, 1849-1964.

Correspondence, legal and financial agreements, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating to theaters, plays, producers, actors, playwrights, directors, agents, artists, opera, and history of the theater. A number of playscripts, drafts and prompt copies are included.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122546304 View

Alexander Woollcott correspondence, ca. 1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Title: Alexander Woollcott correspondence, ca. 1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Correspondence with the American drama critic Alexander Woollcott from authors and actors about the theater and the film industry.

ArchivalResource: 27 boxes and 11 volumes (22.5 linear ft. )

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00746/catalog View

Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-1959. Papers, 1876-1960

Title: Charles Culp Burlingham papers, 1876-1960

Papers of Charles Culp Burlingham (1858-1959), attorney, civic leader, and reformer. Chiefly correspondence, together with writings, speeches, reports, government documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photos, and other papers, relating to personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 1 Paige box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00016/catalog View

Richard Mansfield family papers, 1856-1940, 1905-1940

Title: Richard Mansfield family papers 1856-1940 1905-1940

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, legal documents, drawings, photographs, printed matter, and other Mansfield family papers. Papers are largely personal in nature with the bulk being Beatrice Cameron's papers. Other members of the family represented in the collection are Hermine Rudersdorff, Richard Mansfield's mother, and George Gibbs Mansfield, the Mansfields' son. Writings are plays and poems; family papers include diaries, daybooks, address books, photographs, drawings, blueprints, and newspaper clippings

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http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1863 View

J. P. Wilson papers, 1901-1958

Title: J. P. Wilson papers 1901-1958

English character actor J. P. Wilson, known to friends and family as Josh, began his stage career in England where he toured for six years with Sir Frank Benson, and later appeared in a number of plays in the United States. Among J. P. Wilson's American stage credits were THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with Walter Hampden and Ethel Barrymore, ESCAPE with Leslie Howard, THE LAKE with Katharine Hepburn, MAGGIE THE MAGNIFICENT with James Cagney and Joan Blondell, and PYGMALION with Gertrude Lawrence and Raymond Massey. Consists primarily of letters to actor J. P. Wilson. Two letters to Wilson were written by Sir Frank Benson, with whom he toured England in his early professional days. Actor Walter Hampden, with whom Wilson had worked on stage, wrote him on June 5, 1955, six days prior to Hampden's own fatal stroke. Hampden speaks of his role in the new Lana Turner film DIANE at MGM, a role which was taken by Cedric Hardwicke after Hampden's death. Hampden's widow Mabel thanks Wilson for his condolence note. Also includes a few photographs, a menu, and a program for a 1901 cricket match.

ArchivalResource: (1 portfolio)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21599 View

Isabella Stewart Gardner papers

Title: Isabella Stewart Gardner papers

Letters, business records, diary, and photographs.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw92b22555a-93d8-4bb4-84dc-7a55d64712db View

Howard Giles Papers, 1878-1958

Title: Howard Giles Papers 1878-1958

Papers of the American painter, lithographer. Correspondence, 1918-1957; exhibition catalogs, photographs, published material by and about Giles; and sketches and watercolors by Giles.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/giles_h.htm View

John Mason Brown papers, 1922-1967.

Title: John Mason Brown papers

Papers of American author and drama critic John Mason Brown.

ArchivalResource: 144 boxes (36 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00655/catalog View

Albert and Marie Sterner letters received

Title: Albert and Marie Sterner letters received

Letters to the Sterners, primarily regarding art and cultural matters.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ac638fd2-f3ba-45c7-965b-087ac4350c8a View

The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording], 1940-1968

Title: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording] 1940-1968

Weekly 30-minute NBC radio broadcasts, featuring classical and light classical music, which began on Apr. 29, 1940 and continued until 1958. In September, 1959, the Bell Telephone Hour made its television debut as a monthly musical special. It remained a regular television program until April 26, 1968. Library's holdings incomplete. Broadcasts chiefly originated from New York City, sponsored by the Bell Telephone Company (American Telephone and Telegraph). Each 30-minute program generally features a guest singer or instrumentalist, with the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, conducted by Donald Voorhees, and the Bell Telephone Hour Chorus. Frequent guest artists include Marian Anderson, Robert Casadesus, Nelson Eddy, Josef Hofmann, Fritz Kreisler, Oscar Levant, James Melton, Grace Moore, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Bidú Sayão, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, Helen Traubel, and Eileen Farrell. Chief announcer: Floyd Mack.

ArchivalResource: 1579 sound discs

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20502 View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949. Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942.

Title: Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942.

Autograph book from the 1930s and 1940s kept by Frank Murphy. The volume contains signatures, some with epigrammatic comments, some with drawings, by many of the nation's most distinguished government leaders, actors, artists, and writers. Some of the names include William Randolph Hearst, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Peter Arno, George M. Cohan, Charles Chaplin, Amelia Earhart, Diego Rivera, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ed Wynn, Graham McNamee, Paul Robeson, Gene Tunney, Carl Ed, Floyd Gibbons, John McCormack, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Frank Fay, Dorothy Stone and Charles Collins, Katharine Cornell, Walter Hampden, Dudley Field Malone, Helen Menken, Claude G. Bowers, William Allen White, Clark Howell, Roy W. Howard, Alben Barkley, and John Steuart Curry.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85778857 View

Theatrical letters sent to Herbert I. Jackson, 1898-1944.

Title: Theatrical letters sent to Herbert I. Jackson, 1898-1944.

Letters sent to American Herbert I. Jackson from actors, actresses and otherpersons involved in the theater.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02058/catalog View

Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955. Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1919-1928.

Title: Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1919-1928.

ArchivalResource: 9 items (9 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155883521 View

The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954

Title: The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording] 1948-1954

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 490 sound discs; analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.; 42 sound tapes

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20435 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog 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

Rogers Memorial Collection: Photographs, prints, and drawings, ca. 1600-1936 (bulk: 1861-1936)

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Photographs, prints, and drawings, ca. 1600-1936 (inclusive), 1861-1936 (bulk).

Photographs, prints, drawings, and other images collected by Henry Munroe Rogers and Clara Kathleen Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01908/catalog View