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Series 1. Set Design Blueprints

Scope and Contents

Series 1 includes blueprints for stage sets drawn by Lee Simonson.
map-folder 1

The Adding Machine (March 18, 1923)

map-folder 2

The American Dream (February 8, 1933)

map-folder 3

Amphytrion 38 (November 1, 1937)

map-folder 4

Apple Cart (February 24, 1930)

map-folder 5

Call It A Day (January 28, 1936)

map-folder 6

Camel Through the Needles Eye (April 15, 1929)

map-folder 7

Collision (circa 1932)

map-folder 8

Damn Your Honor (undated)

map-folder 9

Days Without End (January 8, 1934)

map-folder 10

Dynamo (February 11, 1929)

map-folder 11

Elizabeth the Queen (November 3, 1930)

map-folder 12

End of Summer (February 17, 1936)

map-folder 13

Faust (October 8, 1929)

map-folder 14

Idiots Delight (March 26, 1936)

map-folder 15

Jane Eyre (January 11, 1937)

map-folder 16

Jig Saw (April 30, 1934)

map-folder 17

Lean Harvest (October 13, 1931)

map-folder 18

The Lonely Way (undated)

map-folder 19

Love Is Not So Simple (undated)

map-folder 20

Madame Bovary (November 16, 1937)

map-folder 21

The Mask and the Face (May 8, 1933)

map-folder 22

Masque of Kings (February 8, 1937)

map-folder 23

Miracle at Verdun (March 16, 1931)

map-folder 24

Prelude to Exile (November 30, 1936)

map-folder 25

Queen of Sheba (undated)

map-folder 26

Races (May 13, 1935)

map-folder 27

Rain from Heaven (December 24, 1934)

map-folder 28

Red Planet (December 17, 1932)

map-folder 29

School for Lovers (October 16, 1933)

map-folder 30

Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (May 10, 1935)

map-folder 31

Sleeping Clergyman (October 8, 1934)

map-folder 32

They Shall Not Die (January 21, 1934)

map-folder 33

Treasure (October 4, 1920)

map-folder 35, map-folder 36, map-folder 37

Virginia (September 7, 1937)

map-folder 34

Volpone (October 9, 1928)

map-folder 38

Miscellaneous

 

Series 2. Photo Boards

Scope and Contents

Series 2 includes photographs of stage sets and costumes designed by Simonson. Many of the photographs are taken by New York photographer Florence Vandamm's studio and are mounted on poster boards.
Box 39, folder 1

The American Dream (February 8, 1933)

Box 42, folder 1

Amphitrion 38 (November 1, 1937)

Box 42, folder 2

Apple Cart (February 24, 1930)

Box 39, folder 2

As You Like It (April 23, 1923)

Box 42, folder 3

Back to Methuselah (February 27, 1922)

map-folder 57, Item 2

Back to Methuselah oversize print (February 27, 1922)

Box 39, folder 3

Call It A Day (January 28, 1936)

Box 39, folder 4

Camel Through the Needles Eye (April 15, 1929)

Box 42, folder 4

The Cat Bird (February 16, 1920)

Box 39, folder 5

Days Without End (January 8, 1934)

Box 42, folder 5

Don Juan (February 5, 1921)

Box 39, folder 6

Dynamo (February 11, 1929)

Box 42, folder 6

The Failures (November 19, 1923)

Box 42, folder 7

The Faithful (November 19, 1923)

Box 41

Faust (October 8, 1928)

Box 42, folder 8

The Goat Song (January 25, 1926)

Box 42, folder 9

Heartbreak House (undated)

Box 39, folder 7

Idiot's Delight (March 26, 1936)

Box 43, folder 1

Jane Eyre (January 11, 1937)

Box 39, folder 8

Jig-Saw (April 30, 1934)

Box 43, folder 2

Liliom (undated)

Box 39, folder 9

Madame Bovary (November 16, 1937)

Box 39, folder 10

Man and the Masses / Masse Mensch (undated)

map-folder 57, Item 1

Martinique (1920)

Box 40, folder 1

The Mask and the Face (May 8, 1933)

Box 40, folder 2

Masque of Kings (February 8, 1937)

Box 40, folder 3

Miracle at Verdun (March 16, 1931)

Box 40, folder 4

Peer Gynt (undated)

Box 43, folder 3

The Power of Darkness (undated)

Box 40, folder 5

Prelude to Exile (November 30, 1936)

Box 40, folder 6

Races (May 13, 1935)

Box 44

Roar China

Box 40, folder 7

School for Lovers (October 16, 1933)

Box 43, folder 4

The Show Shop (movie) (undated)

Box 40, folder 8

The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (May 10, 1935)

Box 40, folder 9

The Sleeping Clergyman (October 8, 1934)

Box 43, folder 5

Tidings Brought to Mary (undated)

Box 40, folder 10

Volpone (October 9, 1928)

Box 43, folder 6

Paley or Pent House Apartment (not a play) (undated)

Box 43, folder 7

Miscellaneous photoboards

 

Series 3. 'Lee Simonson Designs for the Theatre' Exhibit

Scope and Contents

Series 3 includes materials that were used for an exhibit at Stanford Libraries between June and September 1986--including photographs, costume designs, and stage set designs. Many of the materials were pulled from the blueprints, photographs, and sketches that make up the rest of the collection. Items used in the exhibition have custom mounts and have therefore remained separate from the rest of the collection.
 

General Exhibit Materials

Box 45, folder 1

Title card

Box 45, folder 2

Introduction by Douglas A. Russell

Box 45, folder 3

Photograph of Lee Simonson

Box 45, folder 4

Exhibit Labels

 

As You Like It

General

"By William Shakespeare. Directed by Robert Milton and produced by the American National Theatre at the 44th Street Theatre, New York, 1923."
map-folder 46, Item 1

'Miss Brent' three costume designs

map-folder 46, Item 2

'Miss Vernon' three costume designs

map-folder 46, Item 3

'Le Beau, Duke Frederick and a Lord, Act I' three costume designs

map-folder 46, Item 4

'Rosalind and Celia, Act I' two costume designs

map-folder 46, Item 5

'The Wrestling Scene. Photograph by Vandamm'

 

Back to Methuselah

map-folder 47, Item 1

Costume design for 'Cain, Scene 2 : Messopotamia first evening'

General

Reverse side has pencil illustrations
 

Elizabeth the Queen

General

By Maxwell Anderson. Directed by Philip Moeller at the Guild Theatre, New York, 1930.
Box 48, Item 1

'Three Court Ladies, Act I' costume designs

General

Costume designed for Anita Kerry
Box 48, Item 2

'Three Ladies-in-Waiting to the Queen' costume designs

General

Costumes designed for Mab Anthony, Phoebe Brand, and Edla Frankau
Box 48, Item 3

'Sir Francis Bacon, Acts I and II' two costume designs

General

Costumes designed for Morris Carnovsky
Box 48, Item 4

'Sir Walter Raleigh, Acts I and II' two costume designs

General

Costumes designed for Percy Waram
Box 48, Item 5

'Stage setting for the Prison. Photograph by Vandamm'

Box 48, Item 6

'Stage setting for the Throne Room. Photograph by Vandamm'

 

Goat Song

General

By Franz Werfel, translated by Ruth Langner. Directed by Jacob Ben Ami at the Guild Theatre, New York, 1926.
Box 49, Item 1

Preliminary Color Sketch Act I (6a)

Box 49, Item 2

Preliminary Color Sketches Act II & IV (6b)

Box 49, Item 3

Preliminary Color Sketches Acts III & V (6c)

 

The Good Earth

General

By Owen and Donald Davis, adapted from the book by Pearl S. Buck. Staged by Philip Moeller under the supervision of Laurence Langner and Lee Simonson at the Guild Theatre, New York, 1932.
Box 49, Item 4

Stage settings for 'A Street in a Southern City' and the 'Tea House'

 

Madame Bovary

General

Adapted by Benn Levey from the French of Gaston Baty. Produced by the Theatre Guild at the National Theatre, Washington, DC, 1937. Production stared Constance Cummings as Emma Bovary.
Box 48, Item 7

Emma Bovary (sketch and photo), Act I, Scene 6

Box 48, Item 8

Emma Bovary (sketch and photo), Act II, Scene 1 opera dress

Box 48, Item 9

Emma Bovary (sketch and photo, Act II, Scene 1

 

Marco Millions

General

By Eugene O'Neil. Staged by Rouben Mamoulian at the Guild Theatre, New York, 1928.
map-folder 50, Item 1

Eight costume designs for 'Courtiers in the Venetian Banquet Scene'

map-folder 50, Item 2

Three costume designs for 'Episode in Morroco'

map-folder 51, Item 1

Three costume designs for 'Episode in Acre'

 

Miracle at Verdun

General

By Hans Chlumberg, translated by Julian Leigh with incidental music by Aaron Copeland. Staged by Herbert Biberman for the Theatre Guild at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 1931.
map-folder 52, Item 1

Color Sketch for Last Act

map-folder 52, Item 2

Photograph of Stage Setting by Vandamm

 

Pas d'Acier

General

Ballet scenario by Lee Simonson to music by Prokofiev. Staged by the League of New York Composers for the Strawbridge Ballet Company, Leopold Stokowki conducting, 1931
Box 48, Item 10

'Laborers' costume designs

Box 48, folder 11

'Knight' costume design

 

Peer Gynt

General

By Henrick Ibsen. Adapted and directed by Theodore Komisarjevsky for the Theatre Guild at the Garrick Theatre, New York, 1923.
Box 49, Item 5

'Asra's Death' stage setting

Box 49, Item 6

'The Cairo Mad House' stage setting

Box 49, Item 7

'Egypt' stage setting

Box 49, Item 8

'Egypt, with projection of Sphinx' stage setting

map-folder 53, Item 1

'Bride and Bridegroom' costume designs

map-folder 53, Item 2

'The Wedding Scene' costume designs

map-folder 53, Item 3

'Old woman, Girl, and two others' four costume designs

 

Pierre Pathelin (The Farce of Perre Pathelin)

General

Produced by the Washington Square Players, 1916.
map-folder 54, Item 1

Stage setting

map-folder 54, Item 2

'Street curtain - Scene 1' stage setting

 

The Queen of Sheba

General

An unproduced project, 1929
map-folder 55, Item 1

'Costume design for Otho, Herald of Sheba'

map-folder 55, Item 2

'Costume design for Zabud, Solomon's Minister'

 

Red Planet

General

By John Balderston and J.E. Hoare. Staged by Buck Symon and produced by Rowland Stebbins, Laurence Rivers and others at the Cort Theatre, New York, 1932.
Box 48, Item 12

Stage setting for exterior : 'Calder's Hut'

Box 48, Item 13

Stage setting for interior : 'Prime Minister's Room, House of Commons'

 

Romeo & Juliet

General

By William Shakespeare. Directed by F. Cowles Strickland and produced by the Stanford Players, Stanford University, 1948.
Box 45, folder 5

Costume Sketches with Fabric Samples

Box 49, Item 9

Costume Sketches for Paris & Tybalt

Box 49, Item 10

Costume Sketches for Prince Escalus & Man at Arms

Box 49, Item 11

Costume Sketches for Montague & Lady Montague

Box 49, Item 12

Costume Sketches for Capulet & Lady Capulet

 

The Tidings Brought to Mary

map-folder 56, Item 1

Costume Sketches for Pierre de Craon & Vislaine

 

Series 4. Sketches, Posters & Miscellany

Scope and Contents

Series 4 includes sketches for costumes and stages done by Simonson, as well as posters for Theatre Guild performances illustrated by Simonson.
Box 58, Item 1

'The Goat Song' stage set sketch (January 25, 1926)

Box 58, Item 2

'Pas D'Acier' costume sketch for Ed Strawbridge

Box 58, Item 3

'Peer Gynt' design negatives of costumes and stage settings

Box 58, Item 4

'Peer Gynt' troll designs

Box 58, Item 5-8

'Prelude to Exile Scene' sketches

map-folder 59

'Idiot's Delight' scenic color sketch (1936)

map-folder 60

'Pierre Patelin' Scene III backdrop sketch and xerox of stage photo

map-folder 61, Item 1-2

Poster for 'The Game of Love and Death' by Romain Rolland at the Guild Theatre

map-folder 61, Item 3

Poster for 'R-U-R' at the Frazee Theatre

map-folder 61, Item 4

Poster for 'From Morn to Midnight'

map-folder 61, Item 5

Poster for 'Porgy' by DuBois [sic] & Dorothy Heyward at the Republic Theatre

map-folder 61, Item 6

Poster for 'Porgy' by DuBose & Dorothy Heyward

map-folder 61, Item 7

Poster for 'Marco Millions' by Eugene O'Neill at the Guild Theatre

Collection Contents
Series 1. Set Design Blueprints
Series 2. Photo Boards
Series 3. 'Lee Simonson Designs for the Theatre' Exhibit
Series 4. Sketches, Posters & Miscellany
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