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m002. Resources for the Study of Theatre Arts and Popular Culture

 Record Group
Identifier: m002

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Keith/Albee Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0356
Abstract

Vaudeville, theater, and movie business. Clipping books, managers' report books, scrapbooks, business records, cash books, etc.

Dates: 1890-1952

David Thayer Theater Lighting Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0835
Abstract

Collection of catalogs and brochures document theater lighting systems and equipment formed by David Thayer, professor emeritus Theater.

Dates: 1953-1984

Redpath Chautauqua Bureau Records (this collection is currently under construction)

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0150
Abstract

Commercial lecture bureau and booking agency for Chautauqua and lyceums throughout the United States and parts of Canada. Office files of the Redpath-Vawter Bureau of Cedar Rapids, IA, the Redpath-Chicago Bureau run by Harry P. Harrison and Charles Horner's Redpath Chautauquas. Included are: talent files consisting of correspondence, contracts, publicity brochures, and advertising flyers; business files including employee records; geographical location files with materials about cities and towns that sponsored Chautauquas and lyceums; periodicals; daybooks, cashbooks; and photographs.

Dates: 1890-1944

Christina and Jaroslaw Pelenski Polish Posters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0118
Abstract

History professor. Over 200 Polish circus, theatre, opera and operetta posters from the 1960s to 1985.

Dates: 1960-1989

Marion Ballou Fisk Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0150.09
Abstract

About 1909, Marion Ballou Fisk polished her drawing and public speaking skills and developed a career as Cartoonist-Lecturer-Entertainer on the Chautauqua circuits. She continued to appear through the 1926 season, becoming a popular and sought after performer. This collection includes her letters to her family, photographs and promotional materials, and a group of her original pastel drawings. The collection also includes a few items related to her husband, Charles Leon Fisk (1868-1933), who was also briefly on the circuits as a member of the Hesperian Quartet.

Dates: 1906-1930

Ralph M. Junkin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0200
Abstract

Collection of motion picture stills, theater lobby posters and window cards, display posters, press book material, and technical manuals for projectors and stage lighting. Covers both silent and sound motion picture.

Dates: 1914-1966; Majority of material found within 1955-1965

George Elmer Allan Magic Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0201
Abstract

George Allan was a minister in Mississippi who used slides to accompany his sermons. The collection includes 1855 magic lantern slides plus 100 2x2 slides; also projector with attachment for film strip projection and a number of film strips.

Dates: 1920-1940

John Springer Printing Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0202
Abstract

Advertising agent, printer, and newspaper editor, of Iowa City, Iowa. Correspondence, clippings, printed matter, memorabilia, and other material relating to printing and advertising.

Dates: 1866-1934

Theater Programs and Playbills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0213
Abstract

Mostly programs from Chicago theaters; others are from St. Louis, New York, London, Des Moines, Iowa, Central City, Colorado, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and various other places.

Dates: 1880-1955

Howard Richardson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0301
Abstract

Dramatist. Subject files relating to his career and personal life, including dra s, photographs, set designs, etc. Much of the collection relates to his best known play, Dark of the Moon..

Dates: 1923-1987

Elmer Joseph Miller Concert and Theater Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0363
Abstract

Collection of concert and theater programs, 1872-1975.

Dates: 1872-1975

Maxine Finsterwald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0427
Abstract

Radio scriptwriter (Kaffee Klatch and Playhouse of the Air among others) and playwright (as Maxine Wood). Correspondence, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, typescripts, etc. Finsterwald, playwright and author, published under the name "Maxine Wood".

Dates: 1928-1983; Majority of material found within 1940-1960

Marion Meade Buster Keaton Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0512
Abstract

Research material compiled by Meade while writing the biography Buster Keaton Cut to the Case.

Dates: 1895-1997

Richard Pike Bissell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0565
Abstract

Typescript and holograph drafts, galley proofs, editor's notes, source material, etc., documenting the writings of this Dubuque novelist and author of 7 1/2 Cents (1953), the basis of the musical hit, The Pajama Game (1954, filmed 1957).

Dates: 1951-1973

Carl Glick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0611
Abstract

Story writer, playwright and film script writer, author of books for adults and children, Glick is best remembered for his books about the Chinese in America.

Dates: 1915-1971

Marion Meade Woody Allen Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0861
Abstract

Research material for The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. Comprised of interviews by letter and on tape, journal articles, research files, notes, films, photographs, manuscript copies, and copies of the completed book in various editions.

Dates: 1935-2000