Chronicles of America photoplays papers, 1920s (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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Container	Contents

	Series II. Unfinished and Altered Projects
		Andrew Jackson
BOX L-035			Andrew Jackson
BOX L-035				Mounted photostats.
		California
BOX A-0163			California
BOX A-0163				Costume/property sketch books (5); research notes (index cards); script/continuity documents; set/prop notes.
BOX A-0164			California
BOX A-0164				Research notes (index cards); script/continuity documents; set/prop notes.
BOX C-244			California
BOX C-244				Production portfolio.
BOX L-036			California
BOX L-036				Mounted photostats.
		The Constitution
BOX A-0155			The Constitution
BOX A-0155				Costume/property sketch books (5).
BOX A-0173			The Constitution
BOX A-0173				Scripts; notecards on continuity, properties, personal description, sets, and business; paperwork sets, construction, plans, location costume and property sketches.
BOX A-0174			The Constitution
BOX A-0174				Sketches.
BOX C-250			The Constitution
BOX C-250				Production design sketches.
		For the Union
BOX A-0167			For the Union
BOX A-0167				Costume/property sketch books (5).
		Lee
BOX A-0168			Lee
BOX A-0168				Costume/property sketch book (1); research notes (index cards).
BOX A-0169			Lee
BOX A-0169				Script/continuity documents.
BOX C-247			Lee
BOX C-247				Production portfolio.
		Louisiana
BOX A-0150			Louisiana
BOX A-0150				Unproduced, may be part of another project.
				Costume/property sketch books (3).
		Missouri Compromise
BOX C-241			Missouri Compromise
BOX C-241				Production portfolio.
		The Northwest
BOX L-034			The Northwest
BOX L-034				Mounted photostats.
BOX A-0161			The Northwest
BOX A-0161				Costume/property sketch books (4).
BOX A-0162			The Northwest
BOX A-0162				Correspondence; costume/property sketch book (1); research notes; script/continuity documents; set/prop notes.
		Oregon
BOX A-0158			Oregon
BOX A-0158				Costume/property sketch books (2).
BOX A-0159			Oregon
BOX A-0159				Costume/property sketch books (5); photostats ("costume plates not to be used").
BOX A-0160			Oregon
BOX A-0160				Correspondence; costume/property sketch book (1); script/continuity documents, set/prop notes and drawings.
BOX C-242			Oregon
BOX C-242				Production portfolio (1), loose photostats.
BOX C-243			Oregon
BOX C-243				Production portfolio (1), loose photostats.
BOX L-030			Oregon
BOX L-030				Mounted photostats.
BOX L-031			Oregon
BOX L-031				Mounted photostats.
BOX L-032			Oregon
BOX L-032				Mounted photostats.
BOX L-033			Oregon
BOX L-033				Mounted photostats.
		President Washington
			Appears to have been originally intended as no. 14 in the series. Possibly a working title for the Alexander Hamilton photoplay.
BOX A-0157			President Washington / Colonel Washington
BOX A-0157				Correspondence; costume/property sketch books (3); script/continuity documents.
BOX C-285			Scrapbook on George Washington administration, with emphasis on Alexander Hamilton
BOX C-285				Memos and historical photos and stills from the movie.
BOX L-027			President Washington
BOX L-027				Mounted and loose photostats.
BOX L-028			President Washington
BOX L-028				Costume/property sketch books (2); mounted photostats.
BOX L-029			President Washington
BOX L-029				Filmstrip slide originals.
		Southern Planters
BOX A-0169			Southern Planters
BOX A-0169				Script/continuity documents [mixed with documents apparently pertaining to"For the Union"].
		The Star Spangled Banner
BOX A-0158			The Star Spangled Banner
BOX A-0158				Correspondence; research notes (index cards); script/continuity documents.
BOX C-240			The Star Spangled Banner
BOX C-240				Production portfolio.
		Texas
BOX A-0162			Texas
BOX A-0162				Correspondence; research notes (index cards); script/continuity documents; set plans.
BOX L-034			Texas
BOX L-034				Mounted photostats.
		Valley Forge
BOX A-0150			Valley Forge
BOX A-0150				Costume/property sketch books (2).
BOX L-017			Valley Forge
BOX L-017				Mounted and loose photostats.
		William Penn
BOX A-0143			William Penn
BOX A-0143				Correspondence; script/continuity documents.
BOX C-234			William Penn
BOX C-234				Production portfolio.
	Series III. Miscellaneous Materials
BOX A-0158		"1798" / "1812"
BOX A-0158			Miscellaneous mixed correspondence concerning two apparent projects, "1798" and "1812", the latter of which may possibly be the same as "The Star Spangled Banner."
BOX C-248		Civil War-era visual materials.
BOX C-248			Miscellaneous loose photostats apparently pertaining to projects "Lincoln", "Lee", and "Southern Planters."
BOX C-249		Civil War-era visual materials.
BOX C-249			Production portfolio with miscellaneous loose photostats apparently pertaining to projects "Lincoln", "Lee", and "Southern Planters."
BOX L-038		Miscellaneous Civil War-era visual materials
BOX L-038			Mounted and loose photostats.
BOX L-039		Miscellaneous Civil War-era visual materials
BOX L-039			Mounted and loose photostats.
BOX L-040		Miscellaneous Civil War-era visual materials
BOX L-040			Mounted photostats.
BOX L-041		Miscellaneous Civil War-era visual materials
BOX L-041			Mounted photostats.
BOX A-0170		Chronicles of America miscellaneous materials
BOX A-0170			Correspondence of R.E. MacAlarney, Yale University Press, regarding motion picture projection equipment, c.1921; miscellaneous motion picture projector brochures (from MacAlarney correspondence file); C of A "Photoplay Outlines" (Peter Stuyvesant, Wolfe and Montcalm, Frontier Woman, Yorktown, The Pilgrims, Gateway to the West, Daniel Boone; Dixie, Jamestown, Eve of Revolution); "Teacher's Guide to C of A Photoplays" (brochure, nd), 63 pp.; "Teacher's Guide to C of A Filmstrips" (brochure, Yale UP, 1959); C of A Film Strips: Units 1 (Columbus), 2 (Jamestown), 3 (The Pilgrims), 7 (Wolfe and Montcalm), 8 (Eve of Revolution), 9 (Declaration of Independence), 10 (Daniel Boone), 11 (Vincennes), 12 (Frontier Woman), 13 (Yorktown), 14 (President Washington), 15 (Dixie). Units 4-6 missing; C of A Film Strip promotional brochures and order forms; C of A Photoplay brochures (nd); "The Chronicles of America Photoplays" (brochure, nd, 64 pp.) (2 copies); "Our Heritage of Freedom: Suggestions for the Observance of Bill of Rights Week" (brochure, 1940) with reference to Chronicles of America marked; Daniel C. Knowlton and J. Warren Tilton, Motion Pictures in History Teaching: A Study of the Chronicles of America Photoplay as an Aid in 7th Grade Instruction (Yale UP, 1929).
BOX C-250		Miscellaneous brochures and promotional materials.
BOX L-024		Filmstrip slide originals

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