The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre Project began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression. Individuals worked with the Federal Theatre Project in a number of capacities, including stage managers, directors, actors and actresses, puppeteers, conductors, dancers, set and costume designers, composers, and authors.
This collection brings together over 90 individual donations of Federal Theatre Project material. The material in this collection consists of employment papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, playscripts, programs, fliers, and production notebooks from people who worked in a multitude of capacities with the Federal Theatre in locations around the United States.
Arranged alphabetically by last name.
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There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the The Federal Theatre Project personal papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Processing completed in October 2012 by Greta Kuriger Suiter. EAD markup completed in January 2013 by Greta Kuriger Suiter. Edited in October 2013 by Greta Kuriger Suiter.
The Federal Theatre Project personal papers, C0227, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.
Multiple donations to the Federal Theatre Project Research Center by those named in this finding aid between 1975 and the early 1990s.
The Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project photograph collection, as well as other personal papers.
Set designs by Frederick Stover for Los Angeles productions of The Warrior's Husband, Chalk Dust, and Days Without End.
Newspaper articles from fake newspapers distributed in theaters in the 1930s - The Morning-Evening and chicago Star-Gazette. One article from The Springfield Union, November 8, 1949, "'Street Scene' inaugurated American Series at Smith".
Correspondence between Lorraine Brown and Doris Abramson with accompanying unidentified production photograph.
Correspondence between Abramson and Theodore Browne.
Radio scripts: The F.M.P. Negro Melody Singers, The Negro Melody Singers, Negro Art Singers, Symphony no. 5 in E minor, opus 64, page 2 from The Story of Swing.
Photocopy of It's Up to You playscript
Article Puppets and Marionettes from unknown publication.
Article Take it away, Hollywood: transcript of the memorable coast-to-coast broadcast for WPA on Monday midnight, June 26 [1939] from unkown publication.
Photocopy of original music "Ain't We Got Love" from Swing It.
Photocopy of original music "By the Sweat of Your Brow" from Swing It.
Photocopy of original music "Green and Blue" from Swing It.
Photocopy of original music "Huggin' and Muggin'" from Swing It.
Translation of review of Professor Mamlock in the Morning Journal; letter from an audience survey of Professor Mamlock.
The Dog Beneath the Skin director's copy playscript.
Medicine Show costume design original sketches (1 of 3),
Medicine Show costume design original sketches (2 of 3),
Medicine Show costume design original sketches (3 of 3),
Medicine Show handwritten notes and drawings.
Costume designs for Miles Gloriousus.
Costume designs for One-Third of a Nation.
One-Third of a Nation newspaper articles, costume design notes and lists.
Unidentified costume designs.
2 programs for Abu Hassan and The Princess and the Pea.
Multiple articles and newspaper clippings on puppet and marionette productions.
Non Federal Theatre Project play programs, many of which are marionette productions.
Scrapbook pages with articles about puppets and marionettes.
Captain Kidd playscript.
Playscript and newspaper article for One-Third of a Nation Philadelphia version.
Federal Theatre Project press scrapbook containing primarily newspaper and press clippings, programs, and a form letter to Harry Hopkins in regards to the firing of Elmer Rice.
Letter to Tony Buttitta from Eva Le Gallienne with accompanying photograph of Hallie Flanagan.
Photocopy of publicity pages for a production of Trojan Incident at St. James Theatre.
Photocopies of: program notes for The Dance of Death, newspaper articles on the Federal Theatre Project, correspondence.
Program for the marionette play Crock of Gold.
Newspaper clippings featuring the plays The Farmer's Wife, It Can't Happen Here, and Chalk Dust. One book review titled Theater: New York and Moscow.
Photocopies of miscellaneous newspaper clippings including a 1935 Philadelphia Inquirer article about Helen Schoeni, assistant regional director of the WPA theatrical projects and an article form a 1935 Boston Transcript about the Hedgerow Theatre.
Puppet teaching materials.
Clown marionette donated by Alan Cook, made by Lora Pattison who taught puppetry under the WPA Recreation Project at Oneonta Grammer School, South Pasadena, california. Mrs. Pattison received her puppet training in the Pasadena WPA Recreation Project.
Photocopies of correspondence, newspaper articles, play programs, and plays written by Courlander.
Unpublished manuscript by Clugston titled Very Like a Whale (1 of 4).
Unpublished manuscript by Clugston titled Very Like a Whale (2 of 4).
Unpublished manuscript by Clugston titled Very Like a Whale (3 of 4).
Unpublished manuscript by Clugston titled Very Like a Whale (4 of 4).
Hand drawn set design for Playboy of the Western World.
Employee's identification card; notice of termination of employment.
Scrapbook page with newspaper clippings.
Correspondence between Jed Davis and Hallie Flanagan and correspondence between the Library of congress and Davis on researching the Federal Theatre collection.
3 programs for The Dance Theatre, A Dance Program for Young Folk, A Doris Humphrey-charles Weidman Dance Program.
Photocopy of the play Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green.
Photocopies of Peter Goes to the Fair playscript, newspaper reviews, program, and production notes.
Programs for The Dance of Death and Pinocchio. Newspaper article on broken scrapbook backing featuring The Dance of Death.
Programs for Chalk Dust, cricket on the Hearth, The Devil Passes, Rip Van Winkle, The Sun and I, Prologue to Glory, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, It can't Happen Here, Nude with Pineapple, Marionette Vaudeville, The Emperor Jones, Alice in Wonderland, Battle Hymn. Mailed flier for Squaring the circle. Newspaper clippings.
The Witch of Guinness crag by Michele Elliott.
Color play announcement pamphlet featuring Prologue to Glory, Haiti, On the Rocks, and One-Third of a Nation.
Photocopies. Contents include Director's letter series 2 number 2, memorandum, Little Black Sambo script excerpt and program, Holy Night newspaper clipping and production notes, Rip Van Winkle program.
Playscript of Dirt a living newspaper.
Eloise Moore dance file. contents include newspaper clippings featuring play and dance reviews, texts used for dance productions, article chicago Dance Notes.
Eloise Moore dance file. Programs.
I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You sheet music.
Playscript of It Can't Happen Here with handwritten note on title page by Sinclair Lewis.
Can You Hear Their Voices? correspondence and scripts, Vassar Experimental Theatre.
Ladies Are Made script.
Programs, flyers, and two photographs from the Vassar college Experimental Theatre.
First Legion production bulletin.
Prologue to Glory research file.
Scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs. Photographs include portraits (some of which are signed), production photographs, and cast group portraits. Much material relates to productions at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Shows represented include Prologue to Glory, The Sun and I, Spirochete, Power, It Can't Happen Here, and The Taming of the Shrew.
Oversize. Blueprint for the preliminary elevation and ground plan castle scene of Macbeth, designed by Nat Karson.
Photocopies of actors notes and cues for Macbeth.
Bryn Mawr Summer School songs.
Federal Theatre Project official documents transferring rights of works.
Program for A Festival of American Dance, 12 photographs by Ralph Samuels of American Holidays dance production.
Revue of Reviews sheet music.
Bird of Paradise program.
Correspondence, memoranda, Federal Theatre Project in San Francisco survey.
Newspaper clippings.
Photograph of Hallie Flanagan signed to Gerwing.
Publications including issues of Federal Theatre, The Prompter, Variety, and The Federal Theatre Show Parade.
Scrapbook titled "curtains up on Region of the West." contains painted costume and set designs, photographs depicting staged productions, civilian conservation corps camps, miniature theatre models. There is also one painted over photograph.
Photocopies of correspondence between Gilder and Hallie Flanagan.
Photocopies of newspaper clippings, program material for a production of Faust, program for Page-Stone Ballet, program for Graff Ballet.
Newspaper clippings featuring Spirochete, Taming of the Shrew, and Ready, Aim, Fire?. Photocopy of newspaper clipping featuring the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project. Notice of reinstatment for terminated employees to continue on the payroll until September 30, 1939.
Stage brace believed to be from the Federal Theatre Project.
Federal Theatre employment papers, birthday card, newspaper clipping.
King Henry the Fifth prologue, poem titled A Nightmare, exercises for speech, speech drills.
Peer Gynt script.
Photographs from oversize "The Spiral" scrapbook.
Loose material removed from "The Spiral" scrapbook. Newspaper clippings, invitation to "The Mask and the Face," program for "Smilin' Through."
Scrapbook on the Miami Federal Players (1 of 2). Newspaper clippings and programs.
Scrapbook on the Miami Federal Players (2 of 2). Newspaper clippings and programs about the Miami Federal Players, also programs for cloyd Head's Miami Players, Shawn and his men dancers, Temple Theatre, and a script titled "Blocks" by Molly Day Thatcher.
Scrapbook with a brown cover (1 of 2). Portrait and production photographs include Dorothea Thomas Lynch, and Scott Griffin, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, some pertaining to Molka Reich and marionettes.
Scrapbook with a brown cover (2 of 2). Programs, newspaper clippings relating to the Miami Federal Theatre. Photographs of marionette productions, material relating to Molka Reich.
Brown scrapbook covers; "The Spiral" scrapbook which contains Federal Theatre Project newspaper clippings, telegrams, and programs related to the Miami Federal Players. There is also a program for the Erlanger Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia for a production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
Copies of 3 articles from the Saturday Evening Post about the Federal Theatre Project.
Scrapbook with writing inside the front cover: "Federal Theatre of the Midwest year 1939. Prologue to Glory production - 75 performances. R. Lyle Hagan as 'Abe' Lincoln." Includes newspaper and magazine clippings including a newspaper from 1931 and a New Yorker from 1942, programs, and photographs. The photographs include signed headshots, actors at work, and outside of work.
Contains: one photograph of a muppet created by Bil Bairds walking in a parade from the 1990s; photographs from productions at the Great Northern Theatre in July 1938 that include Kurt Graff, Ruth Page, Carl Harms and others; programs; magazine articles; notice of assignment for Carl Harms.
Newspaper clippings.
Programs for Atlanta productions of The Drunkard, Altars of Steel, Mary the Third, The Torch Bearers, Excursion, Boy Meets Girl, Around the corner, The Devil's Disciple, By Candlelight.
Flyers and newspaper clippings about Federal Theatre productions in Atlanta, program for Faust, photocopy of photograph of Julian Harris, documents include a proposed working agreement between Atlanta Theatre Guild and the Atlanta Federal Theatre, and notice of termination of employment.
Miniature theatre models constructed by Research Bureau Regional Service Department Federal Theater Project Region of the West booklet.
The Story of Ferdinand and String Fever program, photocopies of newspaper clippings on The Story of Ferdinand and String Fever performances from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Power playscript.
One-Third of a Nation living newspaper program.
Program for The Dance of Death; Murder in the Federal Theatre! Published by the Federal Theatre Project Supervisors' council; Promotional material for Injunction Granted! and One-Third of a Nation; Memorandum from T. A. Mauntz to Ethel Aaron.
Scenic and set designs, by Hjalmar Hermanson for the plays Ethiopia, Triple-A Plowed Under, and 1935. Designs are mounted onto storyboards that measure 15 inches high by 20 inches wide. There are four for Ethiopia, Five for Triple-A Plowed Under, and five for 1935.
Triple-A Plowed Under photographs.
1935 photographs.
The Conjure Man Dies playscript.
The Conjure Man Dies playscript.
The Conjure Man Dies playscript.
Program for The Lonely Man.
Photographs of puppet performance in Philadelphia as well as performances of One-Third of a Nation and the Federal Theatre Dance Project.
Scrapbook pages removed from scrapbook containing mostly newspaper clippings and programs relating to Seattle productions.
Programs, photographs, artwork from Seattle Federal Theatre Project productions including Is Zat So, Brer Rabbit, Black Empire, Flight, One-Third of a Nation, Mother Goose.
Programs for The Emperor's New clothes, Native Ground, Seattle children's Theatre, Medicine Show, Love in Humble Life, Julius caesar, The Path of Flowers, Sweet Land, The Straw, The Show-Off, The Pursuit of Happiness, Professor Mamlock, Haiti, The Mikado.
Contains: Employee identification card, telegrams, letters regarding employment, recommendation letters; flyers, announcements, newspaper clippings about Seattle productions.
Two photographs possibly of Injunction Granted.
Script for Mother Goose and Us (children's play).
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and a letter.
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and programs.
Photocopy of unpublished material by Lavery that was planned as a chapter in The Flexible Stage. A copy of The Flexible Stage is found in the Federal Theatre Project collection box 154 folders 8 and 9.
Photocopy of script for Papa's Got a Job; script for Pop's a cop in Jersey city; photocopy of opening scene of Sing For Your Supper.
Sing For Your Supper production notebook.
Sing For Your Supper sheet music - Imagine My Finding You Here.
Sing For Your Supper sheet music - Papa's Got a Job.
Cherokee Nights set sketches for performance at the Provincetown Playhouse.
Cherokee Nights set model. It is made out of paper, wood, and clay and measures approximately 12 inches by 9 1/5 inches by 11 1/2 inches. The set consists of a box painted black with the top and one side exposed. There are two pieces of string that criss cross the top part of the box. The set itself has four moveable parts, two of which look like rock piles, one looks like a doorway that comes out of a rock pile, and the last piece is a wooden fence. The background consists of three pieces of paper that are painted blue.
Hand in Glove set model. Made out of wood and paper. The model consists of two main parts that swivel 360 degrees to provide two different sets. One is of the back of a house, the other is inside the house. The walls of the house has pencil drawings on it. The model measures 13.5 inches long by 8 inches high by 10 1/4 inches wide. Two stamps are present on the front of the model. Both are for the United Scenic Artists Local 829. Handwritten on the front is "For Arthur Edison, Hand in Glove, by c.K. Freeman & G. Savory Scale 1/4" = 1', 10-6-44, S. Leve."
Set model for unknown production, approximately 7 1/2 inches wide and 4 1/4 inches high. Made out of wood, paper, and clay, the set features a hill with trees and two walls with part of a grass hut roof. There are pencil sketches on the walls of the hut.
Set model for the play Dinosaur Wharf produced at the National Theatre in 1951. Set is made out of wood and paper, and measures 13 inches by 7 3/8 inches by 8 1/4 inches. The set consists of a wharf with a small building on the left hand side. In the background is a hand drawn cityscape. The model is encased in glass. A label on the model states: "'Dinosaur Wharf,' at the National Theatre. Presented by Terese Hayden. Written by Joel Wyman. Directed by Miss Hayden. Setting designed by Samuel Leve."
Scrapbook containing Milwaukee newspaper clippings about the Federal Theatre Project. Most clippings are from May to October 1936.
Can You Hear Their Voices? By Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen clifford for Vassar Experimental Theatre plays; Program for Can You Hear Their Voices?; encyclopedia entry on Federal Theatre; What was Federal Theatre? pamphlet by Hallie Flanagan.
2 Photocopies of images of dancers.
Federal Theatre Project costume that includes a green velvet vest and pants.
Tomato marionette.
Oakland Recreation Department marionette report (in scrapbook form) includes report, photographs, scripts.
Puppet teaching - all cloth puppets manual for the city of New York Education and Recreation Department.
Newspaper clippings. Programs: Prelude to Swing, Spirochete, Unto Such Glory / Hymn to the Rising Sun.
Photographs of the production Unto Such Glory; photograph of Blanding Sloan, George Gerwing, Hallie Flanagan, and Herbert Humphreys at the first Sponsors' meeting in Philadelphia; photograph of crowd outside theatre in Philadelphia, cast of Spirochete; postcard from Katherine Cale.
Production bulletin for Philadelphia production of Spirochete includes set and costume design, newspaper clippings, programs.
Federal Theatre magazine - First Federal Summer Theatre A Report; Two documents: General outline for statement of the plan; Planning committee on Field Problems, resolutions.
Photocopy of review of Big Blow from the New York Times.
Photocopies of programs from productions performed in Jacksonville, Florida : Carrier-Jamboree; Aida; Criminal at Large; A Doll's House; Dulcy; Escape; Fly Away Home; The Girl of the Golden West; Hay Fever and Anne Pedersdotter; Lightnin'; The Ninth Guest; One Sunday Afternoon; The Pizen Song; R-U-R; Remember the Day; The Rise of Silas Lapham; Saturday's children; She Stoops to conquer (original and photocopy); Smilin' Through; Twelfth Night; Ten Nights in a Barroom; Uncle Tom's Cabin (original).
Florida Federal Theatre report - Analysis of attendence records, with averages and recapitulations; Historical drama tour series outlines for class study - When Knighthood was in Flower; Time Magazine clipping; article - Our Theatre by Lerom, L. D.; typewritten copy of Movie stars plead for Jacksonville Federal Theatre article origanlly in the Jacksonvelle Journal; photocopies of newspaper articles.
Negatives and three slides. Copies of photographs of Federal Theatre productions in Jacksonville, Florida; slides of a drawing of the Florida Federal Theatre bus.
Photocopies. Correspondence between Medovoy and Federal Theatre employees; radio talk titled Yiddish Theatre in the california WPA; photographs of scenes and sets from Yiddish Federal Theatre productions.
Photocopies of a review and publicity about the Federal Theatre in California, and the Experimental Theatre.
Androcles and the Lion playscript.
The Dragon's Wishbone playscript.
Letter to Lorraine Brown and newspaper clippings.
Loose materials removed from scrapbook pages. Includes: Newspaper clippings, programs, Federal Theatre project research on plays, memoranda and correspondence.
Sleeping Beauty playscript.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs script, Syl file.
Syl (Art Director of the FTP) file on the play Coppelia, includes hand drawn set designs and typed production notes.
Syl (Art Director of the FTP) file includes memoranda, handwritten notes, set and stage designs.
Scrapbook pages containing programs, newspaper clippings, telegrams, tickets, some Federal Theatre correspondence, and three pasted in artifacts - doll clothing created by the WPA Sewing colored Unit and a doll size artists palette. Much of the material is from the centro Asturiano Theatre, or relates to Tampa, Florida productions. Some Spanish language material.
Program and newspaper review for production of Jefferson Davis; Morcom identification work card.
Photocopies of correspondence between Murray, Hallie Flanagan, and E. Woodward regarding J. Howard Miller.
Photocopies of newspaper articles and programs about the WPA dance unit productions and strikes.
Bassa Moona program, New York.
The Bat program performed in Los Angeles.
Two programs for Battle Hymn as produced in New York.
Two programs for Big Blow performed in chicago.
Candide program.
Program and flyer for Chalk Dust performed in New York.
Class of '29 program, New York production.
Seven programs for Doctor Faustus performed in New York. One program contains an insert and an audience survey questionnaire.
Gilbert & Sullivan Opera company program.
Help Yourself, three programs from New York.
Horse Eats Hat program from New York.
Laburnum Grove program from Hartford, connecticut production.
The Mikado (swing version) two programs from New York city productions.
Murder in the Cathedral program from New York production.
One-Third of a Nation, two Living Newspaper programs for productions in Seattle, Washington.
Programs including the following productions: Haiti; How Long Brethren?; It Can't Happen Here; Life and Death of an American; Macbeth; The Mikado; The Path of Flowers; Pinocchio; Processional; Prologue to Glory; Unto Such Glory.
Sing For Your Supper, five programs from New York productions.
The Theatre Abroad volume 1 number 4.
The Theatre Abroad volume 1 number 5.
The Theatre Abroad volume 1 number 6.
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, programs, and photographs of actors from Federal Theatre plays produced at B. F. Keith's theatre in Indianapolis.
November 13, 1935 Dr. Lee Norvelle was appointed Director of the Indiana State Federal Theatre Project. He was granted a leave of absence from Indiana University, and moved to Indianapolis on November 18 to initiate the project. B. F. Keith's theatre was leased and served as the headquarters of the project for it's duration. The first production opened March 2, 1936. The last production closed in June 1937.
Photocopies of reviews of the production Frankie and Johnny.
Macbeth program.
Federal Theatre programs: Hamlet, Chalk Dust, Rip Van Winkle, Spirochete, An Evening of Short Plays by Eugene O'Neill, The Lonely Man (with multiple signatures), Burning the Mortgage, The Good Old Summertime, Triple A Plowed Under; Newspaper clipping for "That's a Laff" (1944); entries on Federal Theatre plays from a book on Theatre.
Fool's Gold script.
Photocopies. From Ben Russak files - press release for Treasure Hunt (The Disappointment); notes and correspondence about the adaptation of The Disappointment.
Photocopies. Chart of San Francisco productions through June 9, 1937; organization chart; Toward a Living Theatre; first draft of Answers to Questions from Howard Miller. Foster identification cards and termination notice.
Please communicate playscript.
Corresondence between various Federal Theatre administrators; speech given by Rhodes on the Federal Theatre; blank personnel forms.
Three pages of Hallie Flanagan notes; Programs for One-Third of a Nation, Doctor Faustus, Swing It, Pinocchio.
Flat Lux playbill autographed by Rodericks.
Photocopies of programs for Battle Hymn, and A Touch of Brimstone.
Revolt of the Beavers published script.
Green scrapbook with newspaper clippings covering productions of the play Medicine Show.
Promotional flier for Awake and Sing at Daly's Theatre; program for The Taming of the Shrew; flier for Summer Theatre in Seattle.
Newspaper clippings and five photographs depicting Savage, Mrs. James, J. Howard Miller and Guy Williams, Burton James, Federal Theatre theatre.
Newspaper clipping from 1989 about the Federal Theatre; Programs: Sunday Night Varieties; Pins and Needles; Here's Looking at You.
Injunction Granted and One-Third of a Nation living newspaper programs.
Programs: The Cradle Will Rock; Pinocchio; Adelante; Battle Hymn; Big Blow; Class of '29; A Doris Humphrey-charles Weidman Dance Program; The Dance of Death; Doctor Faustus; The Mikado; Life and Death of an American; It Can't Happen Here; Haiti; How Long Brethern?; On the Rocks; Prologue to Glory; Processional; The Sun and I; Run Little chillun; Buffalo Historical Marionettes; Turpentine,
Playbill and herald for the New York production of On The Rocks.
Souvenir program for The Lost colony.
Four photographs of Eleanor Shibley in costume. These are not the original photographs.
Paper on the Federal Theatre Project.
Programs: Triple A Plowed Under; Power; 1935; If Ye Break Faith; Mississippi Rainbow; The Man in the Tree; High Tor; Faust; The Farmer Takes a Wife; An Enemy of the People; Outside Looking In; The Party is Over; Petrified Forest; Whom Dreams Possess.
Correspondence from Silvera to Ben Russak concerning the Negro Theatre and Theodore Brown.
Photocopies of corresopndence and flyer regarding the Detrot Federal Theatre.
A Nationwide Search for Early American Printing: A talk over station WDAF (Kansas city) by Douglas c. McMurtrie.
Newsclippings about the play "This Pretty World," program for a production of "And You, My Friend, Farewell."
Awake and Sing, typed reviews and handwritten notes.
The Children of Salem marionette playscript.
Circus Days hand drawn set designs; marionette review.
The Disappointment playscript.
Miscellaneous - flyers, contest announcements, weekly program schedules. Includes: color pamphlet for upcoming productions including Eugene O'Neill's Four One Act Plays of the Sea, Processional, A Hero is Born; Buffalo historical marionettes brochure; Beaver club letter; caravan herald; contest information; covers for weekly schedules, Daly's childrens' schedule; Drama week herald; Elliott's Repertory; Federal Theatre presents brochure; Living Theatre herald for talks; marionettes in the news; Marionette Theatre brochure; new summer session of the Negro Dramatists Lab herald.
The Poetic Theatre program,
Tobias and the Angel program,
The Totem marionettes playscript.
Photocopy of Joseph Lentz letter to Alice Vaeth,
Theatre Arts magazine: The Negro in the American Theatre.
Brooklyn Museum print show. Printed booklet titled: Information for artists on the Brooklyn Museum Print Show.
Native Ground painted promotional design, original artwork.
Correspondence on the Federal Art Project and Velonis possible employment on a traveling art project.
The Path of Flowers original artwork.
R.U.R. original artwork for poster.
Serigraph Quarterly volume II number 2.
Sketches documenting silkscreening practices and tools.
Pencil sketch titled "New Voices."
Technique, Art and Power, handwritten three page essay.
What is a Silkscreen Print? five page typed essay.
Photocopy of script for The Willow Plate - an original hand puppet play based on an old chinese legend.
Script for New Living Newspaper volume 1 number 2 by Irene Wagner with Barry Levy and Richard Vitere.
American Jubilee sheet music.
The Forgotten Music of Triple A Plowed Under (1936), Power (1937), and One Third of a Nation (1938) by Deborah Novak, thesis.
Leaning on a Shovel sheet music.
Newsclippings; Living Newspaper programs.
Orchestration for scenes from unnamed play. "ARR. G.A.E. 12/2/36" written on sheet music.
Orchestration for Power, sheet music and lyrics.
Power - TVA song, sheet music.
Power newspaper clippings, Processional program, Federal Music Program composers Forum Laboratory featuring Werner Josten program, small play production photograph.
Power script with small scrap of sheet music.
Sing For Your Supper, lyrics and sheet music for Opening Night.
Sing For Your Supper, lyrics and sheet music for Perspiration.
Sing For Your Supper, sheet music for Sixty Families.
Sing For Your Supper, sheet music for Sixty Families.
Sing For Your Supper, published sheet music for The Story of Horn.
Sing For Your Supper playscript.
Sing For Your Supper playscript.
Federal Theatre volume 2 number 4 with drawing on cover; Programs for Trojan Incident, Adelante, Ballet caravan; Four issues of Federal Theatre Project Dance Bulletin; Administrative memorandum on vacations; House of Representatives Bill H.R. 8239; Newspaper clippings.
Programs: Gods of the Lightning; Run, Little chillun; Days Without End.
Jobless Blues lyrics and sheet music.
Administrative correspondence; Instructions for Federal Theatre Projects; WPA supplement number 1 to bulletin 29; Washington Marionette Festival notice; Semi-monthly letter of the Federal Theatre Project.