ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Papers of the Trousdale Theatrical Troupes include photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills and itineraries concerning vaudeville performances. Also included is an Actors' Equity Association booklet, which explains the benefits of membership and provides a sample contract form, circa 1919. The association was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Several members of the various family companies used pocket-sized journals to record business dates and expenses, as well as to serve as diaries and scrapbooks. One such journal in box 4, folder1, dated 1928, includes character drawings of popular plays of the 1920s, possibly by second generation performer, Neil Norman Trousdale. Another journal includes a photograph of bears in an unidentified zoo. Still another, dated 1930, housed in box 4, folder 5, is inscribed as "...the most disastrous year of my life". The ledger dated September 1928-December 1929, housed in box 4, folder 2, includes a loose note...

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This series is composed of the various creative work in the collection. MANUSCRIPTS are primarily early works, short fiction, poems, typed and mostly without edits. DRAFTS AND NOTES are versions of stories with significant edits, and handwritten notes and unfinished works. NOTEBOOKS are just that, notebooks kept intact with handwritten contents, several of which have been titled by the author.

When, in a record, multiple instances occur, this inidicates that an item has been duplicated in more than one folder. For example, many typed manuscripts were typed in carbon copy as well, and the carbon copies may occur in different folders though they are the same version of the work. In other cases, a modified version of the same work exists in a seperate folder, and this too has been indicated within multiple instances.

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This collection contains correspondence and materials relating to Walter Lowenfels? anthology of avant-garde poets, Poets of Today: A New American Anthology published in 1964.

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Included in this collection are many handwritten copies of Turco's poetry, plays, short stories and essays; extensive correspondence with other writers (some of these are photocopies); correspondence with publishers, agents, and periodicals; general correspondence; drafts and proofs of his books; some files from his years of teaching at colleges and universities, including some from Cleveland Poetry Center. Of particular interest is the Palmer Institute of Authorship instruction book and the accompanying assignment book. Also included is a collection of audiotapes of poetry readings, original recordings made at clubs and public poetry readings. Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Mona van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. D. Snodgrass are only a few of the poets represented in this collection of over one hundred audiocasettes.

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Included in this collection are many handwritten copies of Turco's poetry, plays, short stories and essays; extensive correspondence with other writers (some of these are photocopies); correspondence with publishers, agents, and periodicals; general correspondence; drafts and proofs of his books; some files from his years of teaching at colleges and universities, including some from Cleveland Poetry Center. Of particular interest is the Palmer Institute of Authorship instruction book and the accompanying assignment book. Also included is a collection of audiotapes of poetry readings, original recordings made at clubs and public poetry readings. Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Mona van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. D. Snodgrass are only a few of the poets represented in this collection of over one hundred audiocasettes.

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Included in this collection are many handwritten copies of Turco's poetry, plays, short stories and essays; extensive correspondence with other writers (some of these are photocopies); correspondence with publishers, agents, and periodicals; general correspondence; drafts and proofs of his books; some files from his years of teaching at colleges and universities, including some from Cleveland Poetry Center. Of particular interest is the Palmer Institute of Authorship instruction book and the accompanying assignment book. Also included is a collection of audiotapes of poetry readings, original recordings made at clubs and public poetry readings. Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Mona van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. D. Snodgrass are only a few of the poets represented in this collection of over one hundred audiocasettes.

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Included in this collection are many handwritten copies of Turco's poetry, plays, short stories and essays; extensive correspondence with other writers (some of these are photocopies); correspondence with publishers, agents, and periodicals; general correspondence; drafts and proofs of his books; some files from his years of teaching at colleges and universities, including some from Cleveland Poetry Center. Of particular interest is the Palmer Institute of Authorship instruction book and the accompanying assignment book. Also included is a collection of audiotapes of poetry readings, original recordings made at clubs and public poetry readings. Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Robert Penn Warren, Mona van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. D. Snodgrass are only a few of the poets represented in this collection of over one hundred audiocasettes.

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This collection is made up of Dom Moraes, Indian writer and poet. It contains various works that he published.

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Includes papers and audio tapes.

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The papers of Sue Ann Wilson include clippings from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, writings, correspondence regarding a possible theatre publication in the Ladies' Home Journal, and a scrapbook for promotional materials from the WPA Federal Theatre Project.

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The papers of Henry Gregor Felsen consist of 4.5 linear feet of manuscripts and date from 1942 to 1970. Except for some folders of correspondence, the collection is made up entirely of his literary manuscripts which are arranged alphabetically by their titles. There are notes, outlines, and typescript drafts for many of his books and short stories, including his first novel, Jungle Highway.

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This collection is made up of correspondence, several play manuscripts and one novel manuscript.

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The manuscripts which make up the papers of E. F. J. Payne date from 1905 to 1983 and consist mainly of Payne's own philosophy on writing, translations of the writings of others, and correspondence regarding his work. The majority of his work concerns the 19th century German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer. Other points of interest include Buddhism and the work of Payne's contemporaries, including Hans Margolius, Arthur Hubscher, and K.J. Tarachard.

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The papers of Henry Wallace consist of 2.5 linear feet of manuscripts dating from 1860 to 1924. They are arranged alphabetically subject file. Included are speeches, sermons, diaries, photographs, published and unpublished writings, genealogies, obituaries, and newspaper clippings. There are correspondence files which include letters from: James Wilson, Daniel A. Wallace, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter H.Page, Charles W. Fairbanks, Albert B. Cummins, John P. Wallace, Nannie C. Wallace, and Henry C. Wallace.

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The Arthur A. Ross Productions Archive consists of approximately twelve linear feet of archival boxes, nine notebooks and one oversized file drawer. The papers date from 1943-1965. The material is divided into three sections: slides and water color paintings associated with Ross productions and centering mainly on the movies "The Great Race" and "Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy"; scripts written by Ross for motion pictures ("The Great Race", "A Fine Madness", "Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy"), television programs ("Kraft Mystery Theatre", "Peter Gunn", "Alfred Hitchcock Hour") and radio programs (Including three sound recordings of "Suspense" radio plays) as well as various produced and unproduced scripts and short stories and unpublished novels written by Ross; a large number of motion picture and miscellaneous photographs not associated with Ross Productions.