Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Hayman, Al
- Abstract:
- Al Hayman was a theatrical producer and manager. The collection consists of carbon-copy holograph letters written by Hayman and compiled in two bound volumes.
- Extent:
- 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 flat box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Al Hayman letters (Collection 1928). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of outgoing letters related to the career of theatrical producer and manager Al Hayman. Included are two bound volumes of carbon-copy holograph letters. Box one contains the volume labeled April 1891 to August 1891; box two contains the volume labeled December 1894 to March 1895. It is worth noting that a majority of the letters are fading and difficult to read.
- Biographical / historical:
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Al Hayman was born in 1847 in Wheeling, West Virginia. In 1882, he began his career as a theatrical manager when he began managing the Bush Theatre in San Francisco. Hayman produced many successful plays and purchased or managed other theaters. In 1886, he partnered with Charles Frohman to start a booking agency providing Western US theatres with entertainment and venues provided by Frohman entertainment companies. This partnership was later attributed to the beginning of the theatre monopoly known as The Syndicate, which dominated theatre bookings in the United States from 1896 to the early 1900s. Hayman is credited with the building and the success of the Empire Theatre in New York, which opened in 1893. He was also instrumental in carrying out Louis Aldrich's dream of building a home for retired actors, The Actors' Fund Home on Staten Island. He served as president of The Actors' Fund and was a member of the Players' Club. Hayman died in 1917 in New York City.
- Processing information:
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- 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
Indexed terms
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 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], Al Hayman letters (Collection 1928). 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