Doris Cook Federal Theatre at Golden Gate International Exposition Collection, 1937-1940 1939

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Doris Cook Federal Theatre at Golden Gate International Exposition Collection, 1937-1940 1939

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Papers from Doris Cook's tenure with the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Theatre on Treasure Island, where she served as Assistant Director of Information from Jan. 20-July 14, 1939. Types of material include reports, production calendars, programs, research notes, clippings, articles, correspondence, publicity documents, and a small amount of ephemera. Some materials are issued by or pertain to the Federal Theatre at the national level.

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San Francisco History Center

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Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

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The Federal Theatre Project was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. It was shaped by national director Hallie Flanagan into a federation of regional...

Cook, Doris

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The Federal Theatre Project was one of four arts projects set up in the summer of 1935 under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It came to San Francisco in 1936, where it mounted productions at the Alcazar Theatre. In mid-February of 1939, the Federal Theatre Project began its Treasure Island "run" at the Golden Gate International Exposition. The Federal Theatre Project was closed down on June 30, 1939. From the description of Doris Cook Federal Theatre at Golden Gate Internati...

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...