Thomas Wood Stevens papers, 1880-1954 (bulk 1897-1937).

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Thomas Wood Stevens papers, 1880-1954 (bulk 1897-1937).

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Collection contains biographical materials such as early notebooks of writings and sketches, articles about Stevens, and family photographs. Manuscripts by Stevens include pageants, poems, plays, articles, stories, and an original draft and illustrations for his book, The Theatre from Athens to Broadway. Major correspondents are Kenneth Goodman, Samuel Hume, Alden Noble, Ben Payne, Frederick Goudy, and Bertha Jacques. Stevens' work as a theater director is represented by programs, clippings, scrapbooks, prompt books, Shakespearean texts, and photographs of performances; as well as blueprints of Goodman Memorial Theatre and Globe Theatre, Chicago. Included in the collection are Blue Sky Press publications, some written by Stevens; 65 other books by private presses; and seven little magazines. Original etchings by Stevens include a series on American universities.

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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...

Globe Theatre Productions

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Noble, Alden Charles, 1880-

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Chicago Society of Etchers

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Art society; Chicago, Ill., organized 1910; dissolved 1972. From the description of Chicago Society of Etchers records, 1933-1972 (bulk 1940-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80064184 ...

Art Institute of Chicago. Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre

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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 ...

Blue Sky Press

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The press was in operation (mainly in Chicago) during the first decade of 1900. The later correspondence deals with the dispersal of the press. From the description of Blue Sky Press records, 1900-1917. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 56323313 ...

Jaques, Bertha E. (Bertha Evelyn), 1863-1941

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Bertha E. Jaques served as treasurer and secretary of the Chicago Society of Etchers for twenty-seven years, an organization that she helped to found after moving to Chicago in 1883. Internationally known for her etchings of plant life, Jaques wrote several books including poetry, and was active in the Arts Club, Cordon Club, Wild Flower Preservation Society, and Audubon Society. She passed away in Chicago in March, 1941, at the age of seventy-seven and was survived by her husband, Dr. William K...

Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918

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Chicago playwright known for his work in the Little Theatre movement, son of lumber magnate William O. Goodman. Kenneth Sawyer Goodman was born on September 19, 1883. He was the only child of William O. Goodman and Erna Malvina Sawyer. He grew up on Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood on Greenwood Avenue and attended school at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and then Princeton. While at Princeton he served as editor on both the Nassau Literary Magazine and the P...

Payne, Ben Iden, 1881-1976

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Hume, Samuel J. (Samuel James), 1885-1962

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Samuel J. Hume: Director of the UC Berkeley Greek Theatre and Professor of Dramatic Literature and Art, UC Berkeley, 1918-1924; scholar and in drama; antiquarian book dealer; died 1962. Portia Bell Hume: Psychiatrist and Deputy Director the California State Department of Mental Hygine. Taught at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. From the description of Samuel J. and Portia Bell Hume papers, 1848-1990 (bulk 1920-1971). (University of California, Berkeley). Wor...

Goudy, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1865-1947

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