Performing arts organizations collection, 1891-1985.

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Performing arts organizations collection, 1891-1985.

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Primarily published information about performing arts organizations that are either based in New York City or companies that performed in the city. Organizations include repertory companies, theaters, social clubs for professional actors, libraries, nightclubs, organizations which aid theater and music performers, and funding agencies. Organizations represented by a large quantity of material include Actors' Fund of America, Equity Library Theatre, Lambs Club, Players Club, Theatre Guild, and Tony Awards. Includes playbills, news clippings, informational booklets, brochures, souvenir programs, histories of the organizations, photographs, and some correspondence.

30 linear ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6876710

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Lambs Club.

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Museum of the city of New York

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The Works Progress Administration sponsored seven photographers for the Federal Art Project for specific projects in New York City. From the description of Works Progress Administration photographic negative collection, 1937-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155487078 Incorporated in 1923 to collect objects which illustrate the growth and progress of New York City and to educate the public about the city's history. From the description of Records, 1927-1985. (...

Theatre Guild

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Established in New York City in 1918, and initially administered by a board of managers, the Theatre Guild was for the greater part of its history co-directed by Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn, with Langner’s wife, Armina Marshall Langner, serving several administrative roles. Throughout the twentieth century the Theatre Guild was instrumental in improving the quality of American theatre, introducing audiences to new playwrights and forms of dramatic writing, stagecraft, and musical theatr...

Players (New York, N.Y.)

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Actors' Fund of America

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The Actors’ Fund of America was founded in 1882 largely through the efforts of Harrison Grey Fiske, the owner of a theater trade publication, the New York Dramatic Mirror. The Fund got off to a rousing start, fueled by Fiske’s enthusiasm; by the “instinctive generosity of show people” (Simon, p. 3); and – most important – by the backing of the nineteenth-century theatrical elite, the actor-managers who owned and operated the theaters and from whose ranks the Fund’s officers and trus...

Equity Library Theatre.

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