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  • Restrictions on Access
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  • Preferred Citation
  • Provenance/Source of Acquisition
  • Processing Information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Biography
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Actors' Laboratory records
    Creator: Actors' Laboratory, Inc.
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1064
    Physical Description: 7.5 Linear Feet (15 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1941-1949
    Abstract: The Actors' Laboratory of Hollywood was a non-profit professional theater and school which existed from 1941-52. The collection includes financial and legal records, material regarding curriculum, enrollment, policies, and scholarships, minutes from executive board and committee meetings, memos, correspondence, a scrapbook with newsclippings, and notes on the history of the Lab.
    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.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to 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

    [Identification of item], Actors' Laboratory Records (Collection 1064). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Delia Salvi, 1969.

    Processing Information

    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.
    Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, 1998.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections. 

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942302933606533 

    Biography

    The Actors' Laboratory of Hollywood was a non-profit professional theater and school which existed from 1941-52.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of business records and materials on productions of the Actors' Laboratory of Hollywood. Includes financial and legal records, material regarding curriculum, enrollment, policies, and scholarships, minutes from executive board and committee meetings, memos, correspondence, a scrapbook with newsclippings, and notes on the history of the Lab. Much of the correspondence is with the Veteran's Administration. Also includes photographs and other materials of productions, including The Inspector General, The Wizard of Oz, All My Sons, A Bell for Adano, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Trial By Jury, Juno and the Paycock, Peer Gynt (script and score), and Volpone (technical notes on production).

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Photographs.
    Theatrical companies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
    Actors' Laboratory, Inc.--Archives