Papers, 1910-1961.

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Papers, 1910-1961.

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Papers of a director, actor, and drama teacher active in American community theater; including annotated scripts, correspondence, clippings, production notes, programs, and set and costume designs from many productions directed by Viehman. The bulk of the collection pertains to productions staged at the Tulsa Little Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which Viehman ran from 1942 to 1961; the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Viehman studied and taught, 1915-1926; the Guild Players of Pittsburgh at Carnegie, founded by Viehman in the 1920's; and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, 1942-1943. Other materials illustrate Viehman's work as actor, director, and writer of community pageants during the 1910's and 1920's; work by his mentor, Thomas Wood Stevens, on several community pageants; and Viehman's interests in theater organizations and English folk dancing.

5.6 c.f. (13 archives boxes and 1 flat box)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Guild Players of Pittsburgh.

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Viehman, Theodore Albert, 1889-1970

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Carnegie Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1905, by steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie; well-known for its engineering and science programs. Merged with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1967, changing the name to Carnegie-Mellon University. From the description of Official guide: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305814 ...

Tulsa Little Theater.

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Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942

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Thomas Wood Stevens was an artist, teacher, author, and theater director. He served has head of the Illustration Department at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903-1911; he was cofounder of Blue Sky Press, 1899-1907; he served as head of the Drama Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1913-1925; then at the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, 1925- 1930; he was the director of various university and community theaters, and of the Globe Theatre Shakespearean productions perfo...

Pittsburgh Playhouse

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