Collection Materials Used During Visit to Beinecke Library on August 25, 2022
Album of newspaper clippings, etchings, and photographs documenting theater buildings in New York City, circa 1850-1870. MS 1387, Series IV, Box 436.
Album of newspaper clippings relating to Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels, 1881. MS 1387, Series IV, Box 436.
Drama League Monthly (Mount Morris, Illinois). MS 1387, Series VI, Box 508.
The Theatrical Observer and Daily Bills of Play (London, England). MS 1387, Series VI, Box 508.
Letters from Almira (Myra) Mills Fowler McFarland to her sister Adella (Della) Fowler Larkin, 1868-1869. Myra Fowler McFarland was a teacher with the American Missionary Association who worked with African American freedmen in the South during and after the Civil War. GEN MSS 921, Series I, Box 2, Folder 12.
Photographs of Bonnie and Semoura Clark, circa 1900-1920. JWJ MSS 15, Box 1, Folder 6.
The English Bible : containing the Old Testament and the New translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James the First ... Hammersmith, London, England: The Doves Press, 1903-1905. Z84 0150, Volume 1 of 5.
Photograph album/scrapbook kept by Hudson during her service in the American Red Cross Military Hospital No. 1 in Paris, circa 1918. Hudson, originally from Syracuse, New York, served as a volunteer nurse in Paris during World War I. MS 1464, Box 1, Folder 4.
Photographs and related materials for four YSD productions. All in RU 397, Series I, Box 1 (individual folders indicated below).
Long Day's Journey into Night, hand-written plot summary, June-July 1939. YCAL MSS 123, Series III, Box 58, Folder 1161.
Photographs of staff, actors, and rehearsals for Theatre Guild on the Air live recording, circa 1940s. YCAL MSS 436, Series VII, Box 849, Folder 11354.
Set and costume designs done by Oenslager's students at Yale School of Drama. Oenslager taught set design at Yale from 1925-1970. MS 1416, Accession 2007-M-055, Box 7.
"Hate mail" correspondence to Coffin, and some of his responses, following his participation in the Freedom Rides in 1961. Coffin was Yale's chaplain from 1957-1975. MS 1665, Series I, Box 13, Folder 266.
Nat Fowler's collection of Cherry Grove Arts Project playbills, 1960-1974. MS 1908, Box 2, Folder 10.
Four Yale Dramat recruiting posters, circa 1979-1990. RU 300, Accession 1993-A-084, Box 3, Folder 9.
Caucasian Chalk Circle production book, November 1962. RU 300, Series II, Box 18, Folder 3.
Denise Chávez, Sí, Hay Posada script, circa 1980. YCAL MSS 1228, Box 46.
John Willis, photographer, three photographs. WA Photos Folio 186, Series I.