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Dina Rees Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG99.0189
Abstract
High school educator in dramatic arts. Awarded first Ph.D. in dramatic arts from an American university, received from the University of Iowa in 1932.
Dates:
1937 - 1974
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Edward Charles Mabie papers
Collection
Identifier: RG99.0188
Abstract
Professor and Head of Speech and Dramatic Art. Director of University Theatre. Regional director of Federal Theatre Projects of the WPA. First president of the American Educational Theatre Association and a pioneer in the development of regional theatre.
Dates:
1907 - 1956
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Frederick W. Kent Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG30.0001.001
Scope and Contents
The Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs is comprised of about 50,000 prints and negatives. The collection relates to most areas of the University of Iowa, including individuals, departments, and buildings, and it visually documents nearly every decade of University life since classes commenced in 1855. The majority of the images are dated between 1880 and 1980. In addition to University images, the collection includes approximately 2,000 images of commercial and residential structures off-campus in Iowa City, Iowa.Note: The following inventory lists, where available, categories under which prints and negatives in the Frederick W. Kent Collection may be found. The number of prints or negatives in each category will range from as few as one to as many as 100 or more. For two sub-series - Faculty and Staff, and Students - there are no categories; in each case, individual items are arranged alphabetically by name. For the Theatre sub-series, photographs are arranged...
Dates:
1866-2000; Majority of material found within 1880-1980
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Iowa Memorial Union Records
Collection
Identifier: RG24.0004.001
Scope and Contents
The Records of the Iowa Memorial Union include minutes, correspondence, special events memorabilia, newspaper clippings, art exhibition information, financial reports, planning documents for 1955 addition construction, Union Board records, annual reports, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the documents date from 1919, following the end of World War I, when discussions were underway to construct a memorial to all war veterans who were associated with the University of Iowa.While documenting the development of the IMU, the records also contain references to various aspects of the University's social and political history. Women, for example, were prohibited from using the billiard room until 1958, when a women's physical education course in billiards was offered for the first time. Soapbox Sound-off, a free-speech forum begun in 1964, was the scene one year later of the campus's first draft card-burning incident in protest of the war in Vietnam. Both episodes are recounted in scrapbooks in...
Dates:
1912-1995
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
Myrtle Sellman photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: RG30.0001.003
Abstract
About 20 images and other items. Iowa City; includes Englert Theatre vaudeville programs, women's athletics (baseball, track and field, basketball); 1922.
Dates:
1922
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives
University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts Records
Collection
Identifier: RG06.0024.003
Scope and Contents
The Records of the Department of Theatre Arts consist of eleven series: Scrapbooks, Playwrights Workshop Scripts, Index Card Files, Program-Picture Files, Theatre Building, Administrative, Play Programs, Audiovisual Materials, Student Organizations, Iowa Shakespeare Festival, and Iowa Community Theatre Association.
Series I: Scrapbooks. Arranged chronologically by year. Includes newspaper clippings, playbills, and programs. Each entry in the inventory represents one volume. Housed in oversized flat boxes. 42.0 ft.
Series II: Playwrights Workshop Scripts. Arranged alphabetically by name of author. Consists of three accruals received at the archives on separate occasions; authors may be represented in one or more of these accruals. 67.5 ft.
Series III: Index Card Files. The series consists of 11 sub-series. 9.0 ft.
Productions by Author; Experimental Theatre Productions by Author; Masters Theses by Author; Masters Theses by Topic; Doctoral...
Dates:
1882 - 2000
Found in:
University of Iowa Archives