Adelaide Bean Papers

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Adelaide Bean Papers

1921-1999

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_756/index.html

Adelaide Bean was an actress, a journalist, and a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). The Adelaide Bean Papers consist of working papers, correspondence, drafts, publications, ephemera, audio reels, and audiocassettes created and collected by Bean documenting her personal and political life, as well as her career in theater and journalism.

18.5 linear feet

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Bean, Adelaide

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Adelaide Bean was an actress, a journalist, and a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). Bean grew up in Connecticut, in a small town between Hartford and New Britain. Her mother was a musician and her father was a business executive. She studied music and voice at the Oxford School in Hartford and graduated in 1928. At 16, she took on her first theatrical role playing piano for the traveling Jitney Players. By 18, she taught music at a private school in Saraso...