- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Playscripts Collection
- Repository:
- Rare Book Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fq977t819
- Dates:
- 1882-1961
- Size:
- 85 boxes and 34 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-85
- Language:
- English
Abstract
This collection includes some playscripts stamped or addressed by theater agencies in Chicago, New York City, and Hollywood, while others were used at McCarter Theater or by the Princeton University Players. There are wartime scripts from both world wars, as well as government plays from the Federal Theater Project, the Works Progress Administration, and the Department of Agriculture's War Food Commission.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of playscripts stamped or addressed by theater agencies in Chicago, New York City, and Hollywood, while others were used at McCarter Theater or by the Princeton University Players. There are wartime scripts from both world wars, as well as government plays from the Federal Theater Project, the Works Progress Administration, and the Department of Agriculture's War Food Commission.
- Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by playwright name.
Collection History
- Processing Information:
This collection was processed in 2002.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and 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:
Miscellaneous Playscripts Collection; Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/fq977t819
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA(609) 258-3184
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- American drama -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama. - Genre Terms:
- Scripts.
- Names:
- Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
