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Federal Theatre Project collection, 1932-1943

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BOX 517-777, 928-940, 942-1196, 1198-1271, 1274-1286, 1489-1499, 1502-1554 MAPCASE FOLDER 8-31, 32-52, 65-68, 79-200 Production Records, 1934-1943
BOX 517-523, 942-943, 1240, 1283-1284 Administrative File, 1934-1940
Advertising and publicity; correspondence; personnel activities; photographic division information; rehearsals and performance schedules; reports; and scrapbooks. Subjects include caravan theater, children's theater, the circus, classical unit, marionettes, popular price theater, vaudeville, and productions in general.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX-FOLDER 517/1 Administrative forms
Advertising and publicity
BOX-FOLDER 517/2 Anglo-Jewish theater
BOX-FOLDER 517/3-8 Caravan theater
BOX-FOLDER 517/9-10 Children's festivals
BOX-FOLDER 517/11-12 Circus
BOX-FOLDER 517/13-15 City desk assignments and daily reports
BOX-FOLDER 517/16-17 Classical Unit
BOX-FOLDER 517/18-19 Living newspaper
BOX-FOLDER 517/20 Managers try-out theater
BOX-FOLDER 517/21 Marionettes
Newspaper clippings scrapbooks
BOX-FOLDER 1283/6 to 1284/1 Civil Works Administration (CWA), 1934 (Not Available)
Note: This material is not available due to format considerations and cannot be served.
Los Angeles, California
BOX-FOLDER 517/22 1936
BOX-FOLDER 1198/4 1937 May - 1938 April
BOX-FOLDER 1240/2 Florida, 1937 July-October
BOX-FOLDER 1240/3 Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 July-October
BOX-FOLDER 942/6-7 Illinois, 1937 July-August
BOX-FOLDER 1240/4 New Orleans, Louisiana, 1937 September-October
BOX-FOLDER 942/8 to 943/1 New Jersey, 1937 January-September
BOX-FOLDER 1240/5 North Carolina and Oklahoma, 1937
BOX-FOLDER 517/23 Newspaper coverage
BOX-FOLDER 517/24-518/7 Newspaper reviews
BOX-FOLDER 518/8-14 Personnel activities reports
BOX-FOLDER 518/15-16 Popular price theater
BOX-FOLDER 518/17 Portable theater
BOX-FOLDER 518/18 Press book for Patience / No More Peace / Professor Mamlock / Singing and the Gold
BOX-FOLDER 518/19-25 Press releases
BOX-FOLDER 518/26-28 Radio Division schedules
Weekly production schedules
BOX-FOLDER 518/29-33 All regions, 1939 February-June
BOX-FOLDER 519/1-30 New York, N.Y., 1937 January - 1939 June
BOX-FOLDER 519/31 Auditions
Correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 519/32 American historical and regional plays
BOX-FOLDER 519/33 Caravan theater
BOX-FOLDER 519/34-35 Circus
BOX-FOLDER 519/36 Clearance and copyright
BOX-FOLDER 519/37-38 Newspaper coverage
BOX-FOLDER 519/39 Neighborhood playhouse circuit
BOX-FOLDER 519/40 Passes, billboard designs, and production schedules
BOX-FOLDER 519/41 Plays approved for production
BOX-FOLDER 519/42 Productions and planned productions
BOX-FOLDER 519/43 Promotion activity
BOX-FOLDER 520/1 Vaudeville
BOX-FOLDER 520/2-10 Personnel assignments
Photographic Division
BOX-FOLDER 520/11-12 Delivery of equipment
BOX-FOLDER 520/13 Negatives
BOX-FOLDER 520/14-24 Orders and assignments
BOX-FOLDER 520/25 to 521/7 Receipts
BOX-FOLDER 521/8 Scrapbook placement
Productions
BOX-FOLDER 521/9-11 Availability of production bulletins
BOX-FOLDER 521/12-13 Children's theater
BOX-FOLDER 521/14-15 Introductions from Federal Theatre Plays
Lists
BOX-FOLDER 521/16 Federal Theatre Project plays, 1935 July - 1938 August
BOX-FOLDER 521/17 Federal Theatre Project plays, 1935 July - 1939 March 15
BOX-FOLDER 521/18 Federal Theatre Project plays in the United States, 1937 December - 1938 June
BOX-FOLDER 521/19 Federal Theatre Project plays in New York City, 1935 July - 1938 September 15
BOX-FOLDER 521/20-23 Federal Theatre Project new plays and musicals
BOX-FOLDER 522/1 Plays for "Special Bulletin"
BOX-FOLDER 522/2-7 Plays under consideration
BOX-FOLDER 522/2-7 Registrations received by Contacts Department
BOX-FOLDER 522/9 Planned productions
BOX-FOLDER 522/10 Proposed university tour
BOX-FOLDER 522/11 to 523/9 Rehearsals and performances schedules
Reports
Circus Division
Note: Missing as of 2022 July 7
BOX-FOLDER 523/10-12 Classical Program Unit
BOX-FOLDER 523/13 Marionette Division
BOX-FOLDER 523/14 Posters
BOX-FOLDER 523/15 Production conference
BOX-FOLDER 523/16 Promotion Department
BOX-FOLDER 523/17 Sound Department
BOX-FOLDER 523/18 Vaudeville Unit
BOX 524-640, 942, 1198, 1274-1275 Production Title File, 1934-1939
Correspondence, performance schedules, production bulletins, publicity, reports, research, and other material relating to more than 750 productions and planned productions. Folders contain production bulletins unless otherwise noted. Each production bulletin contains some or all of the following: synopsis, director's report, set and costume designs, lighting scheme, blueprints, photographs, program, suggested music, reviews, royalty information, and a script. Some duplicate material is present.
Arranged alphabetically by production title.
200 Were Chosen
BOX-FOLDER 633/4 Peoria, Illinois
1776
BOX-FOLDER 639/1 New York, New York
Play research
1935
BOX-FOLDER 524/1 New York, New York
Publicity material
Abraham Lincoln
BOX-FOLDER 524/2 New York, New York
Accent on Youth
BOX-FOLDER 524/3-4 Los Angeles, California
BOX-FOLDER 524/5 San Diego, California
BOX-FOLDER 524/6-8 Salem, Massachusetts
The Adding Machine
BOX-FOLDER 524/9-11 Denver, Colorado
BOX-FOLDER 524/12 Atlanta, Georgia
Adelante
BOX-FOLDER 524/13-14 New York, New York
Publicity report and memo
The Advent and Nativity of Christ
BOX-FOLDER 525/1 Gary, Indiana
BOX-FOLDER 525/2-3 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Advent of the Nativity
BOX-FOLDER 525/4 New York, New York
Performance schedules
African Vineyard
BOX-FOLDER 525/5-6 New Orleans, Louisiana
Ah, Wilderness
BOX-FOLDER 525/7-8 Los Angeles, California
BOX-FOLDER 525/9 San Diego, California
BOX-FOLDER 525/10 Des Moines, Iowa
BOX-FOLDER 525/11-13 New Orleans, Louisiana
BOX-FOLDER 526/1-3 Holyoke, Massachusetts
BOX-FOLDER 526/4-5 Salem, Massachusetts
BOX-FOLDER 526/6 Cincinnati, Ohio
BOX-FOLDER 526/7-8 Seattle, Washington
Aladdin
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