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Guide to the Hedley Gordon Graham papers, 1925-1983 Hedley Gordon Graham papers C0240

Guide to the Hedley Gordon Graham papers, 1925-1983

Hedley Gordon Graham papers
C0240


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Finding aid prepared by Greta Kuriger Suiter

Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
Collection Number
C0240
Title
Hedley Gordon Graham papers 1925-1983
URL:
http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/graham.html
Physical Characteristics
3.0 linear feet (4 boxes)
Creator
Graham, Hedley Gordon
Language
English
Abstract
The Hedley Gordon Graham papers contains a scrapbook, acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine and newspaper articles. Federal Theatre material includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and scripts for productions of O Say Can You Sing, Triple A Plowed Under, Altars of Steel, and Living Newspaper productions in Chicago.

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Hedley Gordon Graham papers must be obtained from Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

The Hedley Gordon Graham papers, C0240, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by W. H. Crain at the University of Texas in May 1988.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September 2013. EAD markup completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September 2013.

Biographical note

Gordon Hedley Graham was a drama major at Columbia University and graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1925, he also spent a year at the Royal Academy of London and a year at the Max Reinhardt School of Drama in Salzburg, Austria.

Professional experience includes working for the Theatre Guild in New York City as an Actor, Stage Manager, and Director of Understudies; work in Hollywood for MGM and Warner Brothers, as well as work in New Orleans. For the Federal Theatre Project he worked as the Assistant Executive Director of the I6 states and directed The Living Newspaper Theatre in Chicago for two years. He also taught at a variety of institutions including the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Adelphi College, Columbia University, Warner Brothers, Easthampton School of Rhythmics (which he also owned), and the Theatre School of Drama at Carnegie Hall.

Scope and Content

The Hedley Gordon Graham papers contains a scrapbook, acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine and newspaper articles. Federal Theatre material includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and scripts for productions of O Say Can You Sing, Triple A Plowed Under, Altars of Steel, and Living Newspaper productions in Chicago.

The collection is divided into two series.

Series one consists of documents and photographs and is organized alphabetically.

Series two consists of oversize materials including three portrait photographs, a diploma, and a scrapbook.

Arrangement

Organized alphabetically by folder title.

Series 1: Documents and Photographs, 1920s-1983 (Boxes 1-3) Series 2: Oversize, 1920s-1930s (Box 4)

Related Material

The Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project photograph collection, as well as numerous other personal papers.

Index Terms

    Persons:

  • Graham, Hedley Gordon.

    • Corporate Names:

  • Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

    • Subjects:

  • New Deal, 1933-1939.
  • Performing arts.
  • Theater--United States.

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Graham, Hedley Gordon
  • Graham, Hedley Gordon.
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Contents List

Series 1: Documents and photographs,
1920s-1980s

Series one contains acting classes grade books, family photographs and photographs of Federal Theatre Project productions, correspondence, playbills, cards (possibly used for a treasure hunt game), scripts, and magazine and newspaper articles. This series is organized alphabetically by folder title.

  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
    Correspondence,
    1928-1929
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
    Correspondence,
    1930s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
    Correspondence,
    1940s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
    Correspondence,
    1950s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
    Correspondence,
    1960s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
    Correspondence,
    1970s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
    Correspondence,
    circa 1930s-1970s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
    Correspondence and notes, Federal Theatre Project,
    1930s
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 9
    Employment documents; Radio production for Recreation manual; programs,
    1936-1941
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 10
    Living Newspaper programs,
    May 1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 11
    Louisiana trip with Joe Earle,
    1949
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 12
    Miscellaneous: travel related, Long Island Fair, theatre techniques,
    1931-1983
  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 13
    Newspaper clippings,
    1935-1937

    Federal Theatre Project

  • Mixed materials Box: 1 Folder: 14
    Newspaper clippings,
    1943-1983
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
    Notebook of song lyrics,
    1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
    Notebooks,
    1950s

    Acting class and record books

  • Mixed materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
    O Say Can You Sing lyrics,
    circa 1930s

    Includes photocopies of lyrics to the songs "I could go for you," "O say can you sing," "The show must go on," and "When we're out of the red and into the blue."

  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
    Photographs,
    circa 1920s-1977

    Personal photographs and Federal Theatre Project related. Altars of Steel in Atlanta and the Living Newspaper production 1935.

  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
    Photographs: O Say Can You Sing (1 of 2),
    December 1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 5
    Photographs: O Say Can You Sing (2 of 2),
    December 1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 6
    Photographs: Triple A Plowed Under,
    March-May 1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
    Photographs: Triple A Plowed Under,
    March-May 1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 8
    Playbills and programs,
    1928-1966
  • Mixed materials Box: 2 Folder: 9
    Scripts,
    circa 1930s-1950s
  • Mixed materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
    Scripts (published),
    1946-1951
  • Mixed materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
    Scripts: Triple A Plowed Under,
    1936
  • Mixed materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
    Treasure Hunt game (index cards),
    undated
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Series 2: Oversize,
1920s-1930s

Series two consists of three large portrait photographs, a diploma, and Hedley Gordon Graham's Federal Theatre Project related scrapbook. This series is organized alphabetically.

  • Mixed materials Box: 4
    Diploma from the Academy of Dramatic Arts,
    1925
  • Mixed materials Box: 4
    Three oversize portrait photographs,
    circa 1930s
  • Mixed materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
    Scrapbook,
    1935-1937
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