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Federal Theatre Project collection, 1932-1943

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Administrative Records, 1935-1942 (continued)
Card File, 1935-1940 (continued)
BOX 859 Photographic prints index - Community Drama
Play, book, and magazine file
BOX 859-861 A
BOX 861-863 B
BOX 863-865 C
BOX 865-867 D
BOX 867-868 E
BOX 868-869 F
BOX 869-871 G
BOX 871-873 H
BOX 873-874 I
BOX 874 J
BOX 874-875 K
BOX 875-877 L
BOX 877-879 M
BOX 879-880 N
BOX 880-881 O
BOX 881-883 P
BOX 883-884 Q
BOX 884-885 R
BOX 885-888 S
BOX 888-890 T
BOX 890-891 U
BOX 891 V
BOX 891-893 W
BOX 893 X - Z
BOX 802 Play Bureau Library subject headings
BOX 828-829 Play Policy Board permissions
BOX 802 Play reports
BOX-FOLDER 31/7 Play reports
BOX 894-895 Playreading active file
Playreading inactive file (by title)
BOX 895-897 A - F
BOX 897-899 G - M
BOX 899-900 N - R
BOX 901-902 S - Z
BOX 902-903 Other
BOX 803 Plays by type
Plays loaned (by title)
BOX 903-905 A - G
BOX 905-907 H - L
BOX 907-909 M - R
BOX 909-911 S - Z
BOX 803 Plays read
BOX 911-913 Plays read by region
BOX 913-916 Playscripts and books index
BOX 829-830 Playwrights Laboratory Theatre file
BOX-FOLDER 31/8-9 Production prints/negatives index
BOX 916-917 Regional Service Bureau, Los Angeles, Calif.
BOX 830 Requisitions
BOX 803-804 Research reports
BOX 804 Resources
BOX 917 Royalty Recommended plays
BOX 917 Royalty Rejected plays
BOX 917-921 Songs in Federal Theatre Project productions
BOX 804 Staff reports
BOX 804-806 Subject bibliography
BOX 806-807 Talent Bureau actor assignment cards (set 1)
BOX 830 Talent Bureau actor assignment cards (set 2)
BOX 807, 921-922 Talent Bureau actor assignment cards by production
BOX 831-832, 922-927 Talent Bureau actor files
BOX 832-833 Talent Bureau production cards
BOX 807-808 Theatre Arts Monthly index
BOX 833-834 Theatre Arts Monthly master cards
BOX 927 Theater rentals by state
BOX 927 Theater technique
BOX 808, 927 Unidentified cards
BOX 32-33, 1500-1501 Photographic Prints and Negatives File, undated
Collection of portraits taken in New York, New York, of 275 unemployed theater workers who met the requirements of a board of review who determined their professional ability, experience, and need in order to qualify for work with the Federal Theatre. Some carfare route cards for the city's transportation system are included.
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
Prints
BOX 32 A - M
BOX 33 M - Z
BOX 33 Name cards without photographs
Negatives
BOX 1500 A - K
BOX 1501 L - Z
BOX 1501 Unidentified portraits
BOX 34-128, 941, 1197, 1275, 1283, 1287-1488 MAPCASE FOLDER 5-7, 53-64, 70-78 Play Service and Research Records, 1933-1940
BOX 34-36 Administrative File, 1934-1939
Contract and rental information, correspondence, forms, lists, memoranda, notes, pamphlets, play lists, procedures, Project manuals, publications, research files, reports, surveys, and technical experiments from the National Service Bureau; and Dramatist Guild Play Contest material.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 34/1-50 1934-1939 and undated
Contract and rental information, correspondence, forms, memoranda, pamphlets, play lists, procedures, publications, reports, technical experiments, and Dramatist Guild Play Contest material
BOX-FOLDER 35/1-45 1937-1939 and undated
Correspondence, information lists, mailing lists, memoranda, reports, surveys, and technical experiments
BOX-FOLDER 36/1-40 1939 and undated
Correspondence, cross reference sheets, digests, forms, lists, memoranda, notes, play lists, project manuals, rental information, reports, research files, routing slips
BOX 36-44 Surveys and Studies File--United States, 1935-1940
Research studies on theaters and drama in the United States.
The "Historical research" file unit is arranged chronologically by historical period, and the remainder is arranged alphabetically by state.
Historical research
BOX-FOLDER 36/41-42 First Americans
BOX-FOLDER 36/43-44 American history--colonization
BOX-FOLDER 36/45 to 37/1 Broadsides, 1774-1775
BOX-FOLDER 37/2-3 Constitution
Note: New York Times Constitution article removed for exhibit, missing as of 2022 June 13
BOX-FOLDER 37/4-6 Early American plays produced
BOX-FOLDER 37/7 to 38/2 Early American social drama
BOX-FOLDER 38/3-4 Early American theater
BOX-FOLDER 38/5 Theater buildings
California
BOX-FOLDER 38/6 Italian theater in San Francisco
BOX-FOLDER 38/7 Minstrelsy in San Francisco
BOX-FOLDER 38/8 to 40/5 Theater history, San Francisco
BOX-FOLDER 40/6 Theater history
BOX-FOLDER 40/7 Theater of the Southwest
BOX-FOLDER 40/8 to 41/1 Colorado
BOX-FOLDER 41/2 Georgia
BOX-FOLDER 41/3 to 42/3 Chicago, Illinois
BOX-FOLDER 42/4 Iowa
BOX-FOLDER 42/5 Boston, Massachusetts
BOX-FOLDER 42/6-9 New York
BOX-FOLDER 42/10 North Carolina
BOX-FOLDER 42/11 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
BOX-FOLDER 42/12 to 44/5 Seattle, Washington
BOX 44-47, 941 Surveys and Studies File--Foreign Countries, 1935-1938
Research studies of theater and drama in foreign countries, including material relating to the national theater concept.
Arranged alphabetically by name of country.
National drama and theater research
BOX-FOLDER 44/6-15 General
BOX-FOLDER 44/16 Austria
BOX-FOLDER 44/17 Balkans
BOX-FOLDER 45/1 Canada
BOX-FOLDER 45/2-4 China
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