Finding Aid for the Collection of Materials about Puppets and Puppet Plays, ca. 1850-1964
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Materials about Puppets and Puppet Plays
Date (inclusive): ca. 1850-1964
Collection number: 886
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Abstract: The collection is an assortment of materials about puppetry including various puppetry journals from the Czech Republic and
the United States.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Purchase, ca. 1976.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Materials about Puppets and Puppet Plays (Collection 886). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
The majority of the collection is comprised of journals and pamphlets on the art of puppetry. Also included in the collection
is a shadow puppet theater set.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Puppets - Archival resources.
Puppet theater.
Box 1, Folder 1
Das Alte Kolner Sanneschen Theater pamphlets,
1929.
Physical Description: 2 pamphlets produced by the German theater.
Box 1, Folder 2
Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur das puppensiel, vol. 1,
1964.
Scope and Content Note
Association for the Puppet Show newsletter.
Box 1, Folder 3
Ceskoslovensky Loutkar, vol. 10 no. 3,
1960 March.
Scope and Content Note
Czechoslovak Puppeteer magazine.
Box 1, Folder 4
Figuren Theater Vierteljahreszeitschrift, vol. 6 nos. 1-2,
1963 December - 1964 March.
Scope and Content Note
Character Theater Quarterly, 2 issues.
Box 1, Folder 5
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1946 September - October.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 6
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1947 January - February.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 7
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1948 November.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 8
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1948 December.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 9
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1949 February.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 10
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1949 April.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 10
The Grapevine Telegraph,
1949 June.
Scope and Content Note
Journal of the Puppeteers of America.
Box 1, Folder 13
Meissen Heimat,
1962 October.
Scope and Content Note
Meissen Home.
Box 1, Folder 14
Meister des Puppenspiels, vol. 5, no. 10,
1963 November.
Scope and Content Note
The Puppet Master, published by the German Institute for
Puppetry.
Box 1, Folder 15
Měsíčník iv Loutkář : pro studium a povznesení loutkařství,
časopis Umělecké loutkové scény, vol. 16, no. 3,
1929 October.
Scope and Content Note
Puppeteer: monthly for study and elevated puppetry magazine for the Artistic Puppet Stage.
Box 1, Folder 16
Les Relations de l'Art des marionnettes tchecoslovaques au l'art
des marionnettes slaves et mondales,
1929.
Scope and Content Note
Relations of the Czech and Slavic puppetry world, a study by Dr. Jindrich Vesely.
Box 1, Folder 17
Revue d'histoire du the?a?tre, vol. 6, no. 1-2,
1953.
Scope and Content Note
Review of Theatre History. Chapter 7 of this issue is written on the
topic of Gaston Baty and his puppetry.
Box 1, Folder 18
Teatr Lalek,
ca. 1950s.
Scope and Content Note
Contains 2 pamphlets from the Lalek Theater in Wroclaw, Poland.
Box 1, Folder 19
Teatre populaire I revue bimestrielle d'information sur le theatre,
vol. 12,
1955 March-April.
Scope and Content Note
Bimonthly journal on popular theater.
Box 1, Folder 20
Puppets of Wajang Purwa of Central Java,
1970-1975.
Scope and Content Note
Set of 193 cards, each feature a reproduction of a pen and ink
drawing of a single puppet.
Box 2, Folder 1
Transparencies Sombras Chinescas,
undated.
Scope and Content Note
10 ¾" × 14" × 1 ¾" box set for created a small shadow puppet theater. Interior box has two sides each with a window sealed
with a sheet of glassine or waxed paper. Also included are several sheets of papers containing shadow puppet figures. These
may not be original to the set.
Box 2, Folder 2
Wendingen,
1929.
Scope and Content Note
Genootschap "Architectura et Amicitia" (Amsterdam,
Netherlands). Book consists mostly of images of various puppets.
Box 2, Folder 3
Puppet patterns,
ca. 1850s
Scope and Content Note
Contains 3 newsprint pages with patterns of silhouette puppets and
hand colored puppets.
