Portland Civic Theatre Records 1915-2000 circa 1960-1990

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Portland Civic Theatre Records 1915-2000 circa 1960-1990

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv40364

Records of a leading performing arts organization in Portland, Oregon, from its inception in the mid-1920s to its dissolution in the early 1990s. Includes administrative and financial records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, personnel files, scrapbooks, posters, programs, and records of the theatre's educational activities.

65 cubic feet; 116 document cases, 17 card file boxes, 22 flat boxes, 8 oversize folders

eng,

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371248

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Portland Civic Theatre

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The first two decades of the twentieth century were golden years for live theatre in Portland. Evening and afternoon entertainment by stock companies, road shows and vaudeville flourished. By 1925, however, empty theatres caused by the disappearance of these performing groups energized three Portland women, Susan Farrell, Florence Bristol and Delta Spencer, "the founders," to organize a new company, the Art Theatre Players. Within a year they presented their first production, Henrie...

Mayre, Donald.

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Portland Civic Theatre Guild (Portland, Or.)

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Portland Civic Theatre Academy (Portland, Or.)

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Butler, Mildred Allen

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Cameron, James Curtis, 1921-1972.

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Ashcraft, Isabelle Kidd.

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Bristol, Florence

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Brand, Mary

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Morrison, Edris Noble Cox.

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Portland Civic Theatre (Portland, or.)

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The first two decades of the twentieth century were golden years for live theatre in Portland. Evening and afternoon entertainment by stock companies, road shows and vaudeville flourished. By 1925, however, empty theatres caused by the disappearance of these performing groups energized three Portland women, Susan Farrell, Florence Bristol and Delta Spencer, "the founders," to organize a new company, the Art Theatre Players. Within a year they presented their first production, Henrie...

Farrell, Susan May Richards, 1876-1976

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Chappell, Isabella N.

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