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  • Biographical/Historical Note
  • Administrative Information
  • Related Material
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Claude Fredericks papers
    Date (inclusive): circa 1850-1988 (bulk 1941-1988)
    Number: 900230B
    Creator/Collector: Fredericks, Claude
    Physical Description: 44 Linear Feet
    Repository:
    The Getty Research Institute
    Special Collections
    1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
    Los Angeles 90049-1688
    reference@getty.edu
    URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref
    (310) 440-7390
    Abstract: Personal papers of the American dramatist, poet, and teacher. Includes his literary writings (1933-1940), notebooks (1945-1988), lecture notes for literature classes taught at Bennington College (1961-1988), letters received (1944-1988), and printed ephemera documenting plays, concerts and exhibits attended (1950-1988), and travel (1944-1988). Photographs portray family (circa 1850-1964) and friends, writers, artists, dancers, and musicians.
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    Language: Collection material is in English .

    Biographical/Historical Note

    Claude Fredericks was a dramatist and poet who taught at Bennington College from 1961-1992. He founded The Banyan Press and published the work of well-known poets and fiction writers. Fredericks died on January 11, 2013.

    Administrative Information

    Access

    Open for use by qualified researchers with the exception of student evaluations in Boxes 26-32, which are sealed until 2063. Audiovisual material unavailable until reformatted.

    Publication Rights

    Preferred Citation

    Claude Fredericks papers, circa 1850-1988, bulk 1941-1988, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 900230B.
    http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900230b

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired in 1990.

    Processing History

    Processed by Neil Hathaway.

    Related Material

    The Banyan Press archive, 1946-1986, Accession no. 900230A. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900230a

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Claude Fredericks's personal papers contain his writings, lectures, photographs, ephemera, and incoming correspondence including letters received from literary figures, artists, dancers, and musicians.

    Arrangement note

    Arranged in five series: Series I. Writings, 1933-1988; Series II. Teaching, 1961-1988; Series III. Ephemera, 1950-1988; Series IV. Photographs, film, and sound recordings, circa 1850-1983; Series V. Letters to Claude Fredericks, 1944-1988.

    Indexing Terms

    Subjects - Names

    Fredericks, Claude

    Subjects - Corporate Bodies

    Bennington College

    Subjects - Topics

    Photography, Artistic
    American poetry
    American literature
    American drama

    Subjects - Places

    Europe -- Description and travel
    Japan -- Description and travel
    Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel

    Genres and Forms of Material

    Audiocassettes
    Photographs, Original
    Photographic prints
    Juvenilia
    Motion pictures (visual works)
    Lecture notes

    Contributors

    Alloway, Sylvia
    Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990
    Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
    Myers, John
    Malamud, Bernard
    Merrill, James, 1926-1995
    Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
    Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
    Hunter, Sam, 1923-2014
    Kimball, Roger, 1953-
    Giroux, Robert
    Hofer, Evelyn
    Bernhard, Ruth
    Berryman, John, 1914-1972
    Beck, Julian, 1925-1985
    Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
    Orlovitz, Gil, 1918-1973
    Ossorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990
    Sarton, May, 1912-1995
    Saul, Milton
    Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
    Toklas, Alice B.
    Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
    Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
    Fredericks, Claude