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Playwrights -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Bruce Millholland papers

 Collection — Folder S0966
Identifier: S0966
Scope and Contents This collection contains copies of documents used by Charles Bruce Millholland to write Limestone Town, an unpublished book he worked on while employed by the Indiana Federal Writers' Project in 1939. The documents range from 1922 to 1937 and contain quarry and mill worker wage scales; United States limestone producing areas data; and union membership, home owners' association, and economic assistance data for Lawrence and Monroe Counties. The collection also includes copies of "Origins of...
Dates: 1922-1939

George Ade collection

 Collection
Identifier: S0007
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to the life and work of George Ade ranging from 1928 to 1944, such as his correspondence with Esther McNitt, Cyril Clemens, Hazel B. Warren, John T. McCutcheon, C.A. Kiler, Ella McCray and Willis Lyman. This collection also contains several copies of handwritten manuscripts, such as "Bessie", "Regarding Pie”, and “The Fun of Handling Crowds”. There is also a copy of Ade’s will, a manuscript copy of a booklet designed by Ade for the Indiana...
Dates: 1928-1944

Sallie Dayton collection

 Collection — Folder S0344
Identifier: S0344
Scope and Contents This collection includes typed copy of the play, The Greenwood School from Sallie Dayton in Indiana in 1968 regarding students and a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in the 1890s.
Dates: 1968

Wilhelmina Seegmiller collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2921
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials from and about Wilhelmina Seegmiller in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1895 to 1913. Items comprise brief biographical information, obituaries, a review of one of her textbooks and several examples of her creative writing.
Dates: 1895-1913

William G. Sullivan papers

 Collection
Identifier: L154
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed, signed letters; typed documents with autographed corrections; newspaper articles; and photostats of newspaper articles from William G. Sullivan in Indianapolis, Indiana; photographs and photostats of letters from Joseph Arthur ranging from 1886 to 1958, regarding the English Opera House, the English family, Annie Fox, John Flaxman, Joseph Arthur, John Wilkes Booth, and other theatrical and artistic persons and plays.
Dates: 1886-1958, undated