Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Playscripts and letters (handwritten, typed, and some photocopies) from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Represented are playwrights, actors, and directors. Includes original material by Thomas W. Robertson and Joseph M. Field.
- Custodial history:
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Sources varied.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Theater.
Scripts. - Names:
- Geary Theater (San Francisco, Calif.)
Barrett, Ed.
Cukor, George Dewey, 1899-
DeCroisset, Francis de, Madame.
Everpoint, 1810-1856.
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968.
Gish, Lillian, 1896-
Head, Sydney W.
Jessel, George Albert, 1898-
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Lawrence, Marjorie Kahl.
Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Princess.
Leblanc, Maurice, 1864-1941.
Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968.
Macready, William Charles.
Manners, J. Hartley.
Nichols, Dudley, 1895-
Rathbone, Basil.
Robertson, T. W. (Thomas William), 1829-1871.
Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1848-1928.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2000
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying. Date of source: Unknown.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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None.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Theater collection, M0154, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Department of Special Collections, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6004, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022