Rosa Vermonté papers 1926-1971

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Rosa Vermonté papers 1926-1971

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3159

Collection contains correspondence, writings by Vermonté and others, Children's Aid Society materials, and personal ephemera. Correspondence, 1926-1971, concerns Vermonté's requests for permission to quote writers on their philosophies of art or education, requests for well-known individuals to write introductions to her unpublished manuscripts, for publication of her writings, and personal matter. (Included are copies of her correspondence with Theodore Dreiser.) Writings consist of Vermonté's manuscripts and typescripts, writings by other authors, and manuscripts and clippings she used for research. Children's Aid Society materials include reports, programs, show notes, cast lists, and brochures. Also, personal ephemera related to the Vermonté Repertory Players.

.8 linear foot (2 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313085

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Healy, Thomas F.

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Vermonté, Rosa

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Rosa Vermonté was a teacher of drama and writer on art, drama and education. She was director of educational dramatics at the Children's Aid Society in New York City for more than twenty years. In the 1930s she organized the Vermonté Repertory Players. From the guide to the Rosa Vermonté papers, 1926-1971, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)

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Charitable organization founded in New York City in 1853 to aid, educate, and provide lodging for poor children in the city, and/or to place them in foster homes or with employers outside of the city. From the description of The Victor Remer Historical Archives of the Children's Aid Society, 1836-2006. (bulk 1853-1947). (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 590407166 The Founding of the Children's Aid Society ...

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Theodore Dreiser was an American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early twentieth-century American fiction, SISTER CARRIE (1900) and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1925). From the description of The mercy of God : manuscript, [1900-1945?] / by Theodore Dreiser. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 63051908 Editor and author. From the description of Theodore Dreiser papers, 1910-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009534 ...

Westlake, Neda M.

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Daniel, Hawthorne, 1890-....

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Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968

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Barnes taught economics, sociology and history at various colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Smith, Amherst, Temple, Colorado, and the New School for Social Research from 1918-1955. He was with the editorial department of Scripps-Howard newspapers from 1929-1940 and was a consultant on criminology and penology to federal and state government agencies. A noted revisionist historian, Barnes questioned conventional views of orthodox religion and the origins of World War I, and ...

Ernst, Max, 1891-1976

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German-French Surrealist painter. From the description of Letter : Sedona, to Alfred Barr, 1947 Nov. 19. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77955633 Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a painter and sculptor, from New York, N.Y. From the description of Max and Dorothea Ernst letters concerning Max Ernst's American citizenship status, [ca. 1957]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122403886 German painter. From the description of Letter, ca. 19...