- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
- Find Related Materials
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Theater People Subject Files
- Repository:
- Rare Book Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bv73c045d
- Dates:
- 1850s-1988
- Size:
- 26 boxes and 16 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- location_under_review: Box 1-26
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of files (clippings, programs, books, caricatures, etc.) on people involved in theater, from the mid-19th century through the late 1980s, including actors, dramatists, directors, scholars, and designers.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of files (clippings, programs, books, caricatures, etc.) on people involved in theater, from the mid-19th century through the late 1980s). Includes actors (Charlotte Cushman, Maude Adams, the Booth Family, the Barrymores, Katharine Hepburn), dramatists, directors, and scholars (Jose Ferrer, Alan S. Downer, Anton and Michael Chekhov), as well as designers. Also contains related material such as clippings on the 1919 Actors' Strike, and several files on Shakespeare, including programs, articles, photos, and engravings.
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by name.
Collection History
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:
Theater People Subject Files; Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/bv73c045d
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- location_under_review: Box 1-26
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Actors.
Actresses.
Dramatists.
Set designers.
Strikes and lockouts -- Theaters.
Theatrical producers and directors. - Genre Terms:
- Files.
- Names:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
