Kenyon family papers, 1893-1972.

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Kenyon family papers, 1893-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742051816

This collection contains the business and personal records of Thomas Kenyon and his two sons, Elmer Bernard and Titus Thomas. The majority of this collection pertains to Elmer Bernard Kenyon. For the most part the collection is comprised of paper records from the first half of the twentieth century.

5.0 linear ft. (10 boxes)

University of Pittsburgh

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SNAC Resource ID: 8114611

University of Pittsburgh

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Kenyon family.

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The Kenyon family was closely associated with theatre in Pittsburgh for twenty years (1909-1929), maintaining a less direct involvement with local theatre for many years afterwards. Elmer Kenyon, the elder of the two brothers, was associated with the national theatre scene as well. Thomas Kenyon, the father, emigrated from Ireland and eventually settled in Allegheny City where he operated a dry goods store on Federal Street. On that site he built the Kenyon Theatre in 1909 as the first "high cla...

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...

Kenyon, Elmer B. (Elmer Bernard), 1886-1949.

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Pittsburgh Drama League (Pa.)

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Kenyon, T. Thomas (Titus Thomas), 1892-1973.

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