M. Eleanor Fitzgerald papers, 1915-1974.

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M. Eleanor Fitzgerald papers, 1915-1974.

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Papers of a Wisconsin labor advocate, political lecturer, and theatrical manager. Included are correspondence, passports and diaries, plays and programs, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Fitzgerald's activity in the anarchists and labor movement, the Provincetown Playhouse, and other theatrical companies, such as the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research. Particular emphasis is given to her work with the playwrights and actors of the Provincetown Playhouse theater group. Prominent correspondents include Alexander Berkmen, William Cram Cook, E.E. Cummings, Mary Eakin, Emma Goldman, Paul Green, Mischa Leon, Eugene O'Neil, Benjamin Reitmen, and Pauline Turkel.

2.8 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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Eakin, Mary K.

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Provincetown Players

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The Provincetown Players was a theatrical organization founded in 1915 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, by a group of writers and artists for the purpose of producing new and experimental plays. It ceased productions in Dec. 1929. From the description of Provincetown Players correspondence, 1912-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612765320 From the guide to the Provincetown Players correspondence, 1912-1924., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Li...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953

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A biographical timeline is provided in the Eugene O'Neill Papers (YCAL MSS 123). From the guide to the Eugene O'Neill collection, 1912-1993, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) American playwright. From the description of Papers, 1913-1986, 1913-1950 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490040 From the description of Papers of Eugene O'Neill [manuscript], 1915-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810476 From the de...

Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research.

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Cook, William Cram.

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Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

Reitmen, Benjamin.

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Berkmen, Alexander.

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Turkel, Pauline H.

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Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bols...

Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor (Mary Eleanor), 1877-1955

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Leon, Mischa.

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