Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Theater arts ephemera collection
- Dates:
- circa 1870-2004
- Extent:
- 18.5 Linear Feet (37 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Theater Arts Ephemera Collection (Collection 975). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection contains clippings, handbills, stills, pamphlets, advertising, and other materials relating to theater arts, experimental theaters, lectures, dance, etc. from about the late 19th century to date, chiefly from the West Coast and New York. Subjects include George Arliss, Sir Squire Bancroft, Ethel and John Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Billie Burke, Maurice Evans, Sir Johnston Fobes-Robertson, Helen Hayes, Sir Henry Irving, and Sir Charles Wyndham.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials in this collection are acquired by gift, transfer, and/or purchases from various sources. Source information, type and date of acquisition are recorded with their associated materials in the finding aid.
- 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.
- 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
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-16 12:58:39 -0800 .
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 the 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], Theater Arts Ephemera Collection (Collection 975). 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