- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
- Title:
- Federal Theatre Project Collection
- Repository:
- Rare Book Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752g767
- Dates:
- 1935-1939
- Size:
- 7 boxes and 2.5 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scaex): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
The Federal Theatre Project Collection consists of bulletins, reports, speeches, catalogues, play programs, information releases, notices and reviews, clippings, protest leaflets, performance details, and other materials of the Federal Theatre Project established by the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, with Hallie Flanagan as the national director.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials relating to Federal Theatre Project performances, including issues of Federal Theatre (the bulletin of the Federal Theatre Project), reports and speeches, catalogues, play programmes and notices (by state, Negro theatre, children's theatre, and marionettes), information releases, notices and reviews, newspaper clippings, and performance details. In addition, there is some correspondence on "The Edward Rice Case," regarding Edward Le Roy Rice and his firing from the Project, and state and local historical records of the Works Progress Administration documenting play programs deposited in New York collections (1936).
- Collection Creator Biography:
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
The Federal Theatre Project was established by the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, with Hallie Flanagan as the national director.
Collection History
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004. Finding aid written by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Federal Theatre Project Collection; Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f4752g767
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scaex): Box 1-7
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- Subject Terms:
- Children's plays, American -- 20th century.
Federal aid to the theater -- United States -- 20th century.
Puppets and puppet-plays -- United States -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Theater programs -- United States -- 20th century.
- Names:
- Federal Music Project (U.S.)
Rice, Edward Le Roy, 1871-
