Tamiment Playhouse photographs [graphic]. ca. 1921-1987 (bulk 1930s-1950s).

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Tamiment Playhouse photographs [graphic]. ca. 1921-1987 (bulk 1930s-1950s).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60951527

About two-thirds of the images in this collection are of Tamiment Playhouse productions or production-related activities, including from Your Show of Shows, and The Princess and the Pea, which later became the successful musical Once Upon a Mattress. The remainder of the images consist of a series of pages of photographs from scrapbooks. These photographs focus on Camp Tamiment -- its facilities, staff, and campers, from the 1920s through 1941 -- rather than the Playhouse. Many photographs were also produced as postcards by photographers Lewis "Snappy" Goren and Seymour Fischer. The collection includes images of actors such as Danny Kaye, Bea Arthur, Imogene Coca, Dick Shawn, and Carol Burnett; directors such as Max L. Liebman and Joe Layton; choreographers and dancers like Jerome Robbins, and Anita Alvarez; and writers Woody Allen and Neil Simon. There are also images of Ben Josephson and Bertha Mailly, respectively director and founder of Camp Tamiment.

2.5 linear ft.

New-York Historical Society

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Allen, Woody, 1935-

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Alvarez, Anita

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Layton, Joe, 1931-

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Joe Layton (1931-1994) was an Emmy and Tony award-winning American choreographer, director, and producer of stage productions, television specials, and live concerts. The Joe Layton papers (1931-1992) document his professional career and his marriage to actress Evelyn Russell. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, production binders, scrapbooks, and scripts. Joe Layton (1931-1994) was born Joseph Lichtman in Brooklyn, New York to James and Sadie Lichtman. ...

Simon, Neil, 1927-2018

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Robbins, Jerome

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American dancer, choreographer, and ballet master. From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks [microform]. 1937-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81722948 From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks. 1986-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79096064 American ballet dancer and choreographer primarily associated with American Ballet Theatre in the 1940s and the New York City Ballet since 1949; also, theatrical director and choreographer whose producti...

Kaye, Danny

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Josephson, Ben, 1895-1980.

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Ben Josephson (1895-1980), served in various administrative capacities at Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania from 1941-1968. He was active in the Socialist Party and the labor movement. He was associated with the Rand School and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tamiment Library at NYU. Josephson gave support to the New Leader and Labor History and was elected, in 1976, President of the People's Educational Camp Society (PECS), the corporate entity that founded and oversaw Camp Tamiment. ...

Liebman, Max

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Burnett, Carole

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Shawn, Dick

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Fischer, Seymour.

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Mailly, Bertha Howell

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