Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of typescript and printed theater prompt books.
- Extent:
- 2.8 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in German and English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of theater prompt books (Collection 714). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of typescript and printed theater prompt books, including plays by Bertolt Brecht, Gerhart Hauptmann, Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Marlowe, Lion Feuchtwanger, Carl Sternheim, Leo Tolstoy, William Shakespeare, Arthur Schnitzler, George Bernard Shaw, J.P. Priestly, Terence Rattigan, Edgar Wallace, Sutton Vane, Emlyn Williams, John Drinkwater, A.A. Milne, Moss Hart, and George S. Kaufman.
- Acquisition information:
- Provenance unknown.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Lindsay Chaney under the supervision of Jillian Cuellar in 2015 in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT),
- Arrangement:
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Arranged by language of material and then by size of the book.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Collection of theater prompt books (Collection 714). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988