Playwrights -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 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This collection contains copies of documents used by Charles Bruce Millholland to write Limestone Town, an unpublished book he worked on while employed by the Indiana Federal Writers' Project in 1939.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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George Ade collection
Rita Kohn, Before the Shadows Flee play script
Collection — Folder S3498
Identifier: S3498
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a play script from Rita Kohn in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1996 for a one-person play in two acts she wrote about Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, while he was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1891.
Dates:
1996
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
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Sallie Dayton collection
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 correspondence, essays, manuscripts, research notes, newspaper articles, reviews, advertisements, photographs, and illustrations--some of which are photostats and reproductions--from William G. Sullivan in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1861 to 1960 and undated, regarding theater and Indiana history and historical figures, particularly the life and works of Hoosier playwright Joseph Arthur and English's Opera House in Indianapolis.
Dates:
1861-1960, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William G. Sullivan papers
