Finding Aid for the Theater Arts Ephemera Collection LSC.0975
Finding aid prepared by Shira Peltzman, 2020.
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
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Theater arts ephemera collection
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0975
Physical Description:
18.5 Linear Feet
(37 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-2004
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
English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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.
[Identification of item], Theater Arts Ephemera Collection (Collection 975). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
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.
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.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233861
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.