Finding aid for Collection of Theater Prompt Books LSC.0714
Finding aid prepared by Lindsay Chaney, 2015
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 16.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of theater prompt books
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0714
Physical Description:
2.8 Linear Feet
(7 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1800-1960
Abstract: Collection consists of typescript and printed theater prompt books.
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in German and English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
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.
[Identification of item], Collection of theater prompt books (Collection 714). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown.
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),
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232884
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.
Arranged by language of material and then by size of the book.
box 2
box 4
box 6