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Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theatre Collection
SC.10
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Title: Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theatre Collection
Dates: 1887-1976
Collection Number: SC.10
Creator/Collector:
Walkup, Fairfax Proudfit
Extent: 262 volumes and 50 boxes (144 linear feet)
Repository:
California State University, Fullerton. University Archives and Special Collections
Fullerton, California 92834-4150
Abstract: Gifted from the personal library of Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup in 1971, noted theatrical educator and Dean of costuming,
customs and manners at the Pasadena Playhouse for 20 years, as well as producer, playwright, and lecturer at CSUF.
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theatre Collection. California State University, Fullerton. University Archives and Special Collections
Biography/Administrative History
Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup was a professor in the theater department at California State University, Fullerton. She was a
former Director and Dean of Instruction of the Pasadena Playhouse. Her expertise was in costume and set design and she also
was a playwright. Originally from a prominent family in Tennessee she attended Vassar College class of 1908. After World
War I she and her son came to California.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Dr. Fairfax Proudfit Walkup Theater Collection includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, scrapbooks, fashion illustrated
plates, dolls, manuscripts, and ephemera pertaining to theater costumes and set design and the professional career of educator,
designer, and playwright Fairfax Proudfit Walkup. Also includes materials relating to her work at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Theater--Costume
Stage-setting and scenery
Walkup, Fairfax Proudfit
California State University, Fullerton
Pasadena Playhouse