Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Federal Theatre Project collection, 1932-1943 |
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Span Dates | 1932-1943 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1935-1939) |
Call No. | ML31.F44 |
Creator | Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) |
Extent | around 525,000 items |
Extent | 1,475 containers |
Extent | 523 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu995001 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2003682046 |
Summary | The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals, publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, charts, costume and set designs, blue-prints, posters, addressograph plates, photographs, negatives, slides, playbills, and other records documenting the activities of the Federal Theatre Project and its impact on all aspects of the theater. |
Online Content | Digitized images along with identifying information and a narrative introduction are also available through the Library of Congress Web site under the title: "The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939." |