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Guide to the Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, 1961-1984 C0153 Works Progress Administration oral histories

Guide to the Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, 1961-1984 C0153

Works Progress Administration oral histories


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Eron Ackerman

Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Identification
C0153
Title
Works Progress Administration oral histories collection 1961-1984
URL:
http://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/wpaoh.html
Quantity
16 Linear Feet, 43 boxes
Creator
George Mason University. Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture
Language
English .
Abstract
Collection includes transcripts and recordings of oral interviews with persons who were associated with various Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in the 1930s. These include the Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and Federal Writers Project.

Administrative Information

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Alternative Form Available

Most of the oral histories from this collection were digitized through a Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) grant in 2019. To access the digitized recordings and learn more about the project, please visit https://vwpa.gmu.edu/audiocollection/.

Preferred Citation

Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, C0153, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Donated by the Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in March 2009. Series 2 added in November 2013 by Greta Kuriger Suiter. Finding aid updated by Amanda Brent in March 2022.

Historical Information

The interviews in the WPA Oral Histories Collection were conducted from between 1961 and 1984. The majority of the interviews were done in the 1970s and 1980s by Lorraine Brown and John O'Connor as part of the Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture. Cassettes of cast recordings and conferences were also created by the Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of oral history interviews with persons who were associated with various Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in the 1930s. These include the Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and Federal Writers Project.

Series 1: Transcripts consists of typewritten and handwritten photocopies of transcripts of oral histories created between 1961 and 1984 by the Research Center on the Federal Theatre Project. Some folders also contain correspondence and photographs of the interviewee. This series is arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee.

Series 2: Audio Recordings consists of two subseries: Oral history interviews, and Plays, radio interviews, conferences. Subseries 2.1: Oral history interviews contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee. The oral histories were created between 1961 and 1984 by the Research Center on the Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University. Subseries 2.2: Plays, radio interviews, conferences contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings of various federal theatre performances, interviews, and conferences that date from 1938 to 1984 and is arranged alphabetically by title.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series based on format - transcripts and recordings. Series 2 is divided into two subseries by content - oral histories; plays, radio interviews, and conferences.

Organized into two series:

Series Series 1: Transcripts, 1961-1984 (Boxes 1-11) Series 2: Audio Recordings, 1938-1984 (Boxes 12-41)

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center also holds the Federal Theatre Project collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Acting
  • Dance -- United States
  • Federal Art Project
  • Federal Music Project (U.S.)
  • Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Sound recordings
  • Theater -- United States
  • United States. Works Progress Administration

Container List

Series 1: Transcripts
6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-11)
1961-1984
Scope and Content

Series 1: Transcripts consists of handwritten and typewritten photocopies of transcripts of oral histories created between 1961 and 1984 by the Research Center on the Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University. Some folders also contain correspondence and photographs of the interviewee. This series is arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 1
    Allison, Elitea
    November 10,1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Widow of playwright Hughes Allison, whose work was produced by the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 2
    Anderson, Thomas
    May 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager and director with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 3
    Andrus, Zoray
    February 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Costume designer with the San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 4
    Archer, Osceola
    January 3, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress who auditioned for Negro Unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 5
    Bacon, Ernst
    April 23, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer and director, San Francisco Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 6
    Baird, Bill
    November 8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Technician, marionette artist, and actor with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 7
    Bales, Richard Corner
    June 2, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Conductor, Federal Music Project's Virginia Symphony Orchestra and North Carolina-Virginia Symphony.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 8
    Bales, William
    May 23, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer and assistant to Charles Weidman, with New York City Federal Dance Theatre.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 9
    Banfield, Beryl
    May 22, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 10
    Barber, Philip
    November 11, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative director of the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 11
    Barlin, Anne Lief
    October 25, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with Federal Dance Project, New York City.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 12
    Barnouw, Eric
    May 12,1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with the Radio Division of Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 13
    Baron, Paul
    December 5, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager with the Manhattan City Projects, New York City.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 14
    Bates, Add
    November 30, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer and actor with New York City Federal Theatre Project units. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 15
    Bay, Howard
    February 21, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Set designer for various New York City Federal Theatre Project productions.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 16
    Bentley, Eric
    May 12, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Son-in-law of Hallie Flanagan; writer and critic of modern drama.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 9
    Bentley, Joanne Davis
    May 13, 1976
    Scope and Content

    Step-daughter of Hallie Flanagan.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 17
    Benton, Thomas Hart
    1964
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, muralist. Unidentified interviewer may have residual rights to interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 18
    Berenberg, Ben
    August 16,1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Children's Theatre and Living Newspaper units of New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 19
    Berman, Harold
    November 16,1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer who worked with the National Play Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 20
    Bessie, Alvah
    1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Novelist, film writer, journalist, New York City, Los Angeles. Approval of Sylviane Bessie required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 21
    Birchenall, Jack
    November 18, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Costume designer with San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 22
    Black, Ivan
    May 8, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator with New York City Federal Theatre Project Radio Division; also worked as publicist with New York City Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 23
    Blake, Eubie
    January 9, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer, musician; wrote Swing It for New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 1 folder: 24
    Blankfort, Michael
    July 22, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose play, Battle Hymn, written with Michael Gold, was produced by various Federal Theatre Project units.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 1
    Bolotowski, Ilya
    January 30, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, muralist with New York City Federal Art Project. Permission for publication required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 2
    Bolton, Harold and Philip
    November 1, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Philip Bolton is the son of Harold (director and choreographer with New York City Federal Theatre Project) and Rhoda Rammelkamp Bolton (costume designer, New York City Federal Theatre Project). This is an untaped interview from a visit Philip made to the Research Center. Includes some information about Harold.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 3
    Bolton, Rhoda Rammelkamp
    1976-1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Correspondence and notes from untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 4
    Borowski, Maxine
    June 2, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Costume designer with New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 5
    Bosworth, Francis
    September 29, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Play Bureau; in charge of exhibits; head of Play Reading Bureau within the National Office of Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 6
    Brant, Carl
    March 16, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 7
    Breen, Robert and Wilva Davis
    November 27, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Robert Breen was a Director and actor with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project and Wilva Davis Breen was an actress with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 8
    Brocco, Peter
    June 1, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 9
    Bromley, Robert
    June 30, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of marionette unit of Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 10
    Brook, Alexander
    January 2, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist with Federal Art Project. Permission for publication required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 11
    Browne, Theodore
    October 22, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose work was produced by Seattle Federal Theatre Project; also a writer with Boston Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 12
    Bruskin, Perry
    10-22-76 October 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Children's unit of New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 13
    Burris-Meyer, Harold
    March 14, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Sound technician with Living Newspaper unit of New York City Federal Theatre Project. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 14
    Buttitta, Tony
    January 11, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 15
    Cadmus, Paul
    September 1981
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, muralist with Federal Art Project.

  • Cameniti, Ida
    March 15, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    [see Mesa, Fernando] Playwright whose work, Reward, was produced by the Tampa Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 16
    Campbell, Dick
    November 10, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Lafayette Theatre's Negro unit of New York City Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 17
    Cardwell, Laurence
    March 17, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Personnel administrator with New York City and Florida Federal Theatre Project units.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 18
    Carter, Clarence Holbrook
    1974
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, administrator with Ohio Federal Art Project. Permission with interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 19
    Catlett, Elizabeth
    December 8, 1981
    Scope and Contents

    Artist, New York. Permission to quote over 100 words required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 20
    Chaivoe, Nick
    January 18, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor, stage manager with Portland, Oregon Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 21
    Chase, Mary Coyle
    August 9, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose work was produced by Denver Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 22
    Chavkin, Samuel
    May 22,1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with Federal Dance Theatre, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 23
    Cheney, Sheldon
    December 29,1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and theater critic.

  • Mixed Materials box: 2 folder: 24
    Chesse, Ralph
    June 23, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of marionette units, San Francisco and Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project; costume designer.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 10
    Chilkovsky, Nadia
    May 25, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Choreographer and dancer with Federal Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 11
    Cikovsky, Nicolai
    July 18, 1980
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist with the Illinois and District of Columbia Federal Art Project. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 1
    Clark, Helen Fisher and Maurice
    August 7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    With Children's Theatre unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 2
    Clarke, David
    July 21, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Assistant stage manager with Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 12
    Clebanoff, Herman
    April 21, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Concertmaster, Illinois Symphony Orchestra.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 3
    Clugston, Katherine T.
    December 28, 1984
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Play Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 4
    Clugston, Katherine T.
    circa 1980s
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Play Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 5
    Cohen, Elizabeth Elson
    January 14, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    District supervisor with San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 13
    Cohn, Arthur
    May 6, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Supervisor of copyists unit of Philadelphia Federal Music Project; conductor of Philadelphia Orchestra.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 6
    Coleman, Ralf
    November 24, 1972
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Negro unit, Boston Federal Theatre Project. Permission to quote required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 7
    Coleman, Ralf
    November 21, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Negro unit, Boston Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 8
    Connelly, Marc
    October 23, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose works were produced by various Federal Theatre Project units.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 9
    Corey, Jeff
    October 24, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 10
    Cotten, Joseph
    February 22, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 11
    Courlander, Harold
    August 10, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose work, Swamp Mud, was produced in Birmingham, Alabama.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 12
    Cox, Margaret
    February 5, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Works Progress Adminstration administrative assistant and secretary, Washington, D.C. and New York.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 13
    Cronbach, Robert
    February 26, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Sculptor with the Federal Art Project. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 14
    Cronin, Anne
    October 29, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative assistant to Ellen Woodward, Works Progress Administration's head of Woman's and Professional Division, Washington, D.C. Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 15
    Croydon, Joan
    December 16, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with Roslyn, New York unit of Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 14
    Cunningham, Michele Elliott
    May 28, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress, dancer, playwright, and marionette manipulator with San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 16
    Da Silva, Howard
    May 24, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor and director with Radio Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 17
    Daggett, Helen Cross
    April 18, 1983
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with various productions of Federal Theatre Project in California. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 18
    Daly, Frank
    June 11, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Roslyn, New York Federal Theatre Project unit.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 19
    Danzig, Frank
    July 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer with Radio Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 20
    Davidson, Julius
    December 14, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Finance administrator, Works Progress Administration arts projects, Washington, D.C.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 15
    De Koven, Roger
    January 8, 1980
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Popular Price Theatre, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 21
    De Paur, Leonard
    December 2, 1976, December 28,1976, January 11, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Music director with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 22
    Dehn, Mura
    April 20, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer and choreographer with the dance unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 3 folder: 23
    Del Bourgo, Fanya Geltman
    December 16, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the dance unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 1
    Denby, Edwin
    March 2, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Play adapter and choreographer with Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 2
    Dowell, George B.
    April 30, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Assistant to Hallie Flanagan at Smith College; playwright.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 3
    Du Bois, Shirley Graham
    May 28, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright with Chicago Federal Theatre Project. Permission to quote over 100 words required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 4
    Dudley Jr., Edward
    October 27, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Assistant stage manager with Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 5
    Durham, C.J.S. (Jack)
    June 23, 1983
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked in Herbert Hoover's and Harry Hopkins's press offices.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 6
    Ebsen, Nancy Wolcott
    June 1, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Student of Hallie Flanagan; expert in children's theater.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 7
    Edson, Eda
    May 30, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Vaudeville unit, Los Angeles, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 8
    Edwards, Ben
    December 28, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Set designer with the Roslyn, New York unit of the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 9
    Eldridge, Elaine
    November 27, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the Children's Theatre, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 10
    Elson, Charles
    December 1, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Set designer with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 10
    Elson, Diane Rivers
    December 1, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 11
    Engel, Lehman
    October 23, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Musical composer and director with various units, New York City Federal Theatre Project and Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 16
    Engel, Lehman
    May 8, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Musical composer and director with various units, New York City Federal Theatre Project and Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 17
    Ewing, Kay
    November 27, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Negro unit and Children's unit, Chicago, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 12
    Farmer, Virginia
    August 11, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Southwest Experimental unit, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 13
    Farnsworth, William
    March 16, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative assistant to Hallie Flanagan, national office, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 14
    Farran, Don
    January 3, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Director, Midwest Federal Theatre Project; administrator for Federal Arts Projects in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 15
    Feder, Abe
    May 13, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Lighting designer with the Negro and Classical units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 16
    Fishel, H.L. (Bud)
    October 26, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator with the National Play Bureau; playwright, play reader, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 17
    Fisher, Granville
    March 19,1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of Miami unit, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 18
    Forbes, Leon and Jack Wilson
    July 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 19
    Francis, Arlene
    April 17, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 20
    Frank, Allan
    October 25, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with Children's Theatre, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 21
    Frankel, Lillian Berson
    October 10, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer with Radio Division, Illinois Writers' Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 4 folder: 22
    Freeman, Charles K.
    February 20, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Producer and Theatrical Director, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 1
    Freud, Mayfair
    January 5-8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Wife of Ralph Freud, theatrical director and actor with Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 2
    Freud, Ralph
    November 1, 1961
    Scope and Contents note

    Theatrical director and actor with Los Angeles and San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 3
    Friar, Kimon
    May 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright and technical assistant with the Detroit Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 4
    Garnet, Eva Desca
    October 26, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer and assistant to Doris Humphrey with the Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 5
    Geer, Will
    June 1, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 18
    Gellert, Lawrence
    October 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and Publicist with Federal Writers Project and the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project; play reader with Federal Theatre Project Play Bureau.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 6
    Gerrard, Saida
    February 21, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 7
    Gilbert, Lou
    April 17, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor and founder of Chicago Repertory Group, 1933.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 8
    Gilder, Rosamond
    November 16, 1975 and February 19, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator, Bureau of research and Publications of Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 9
    Gilman, Harold and Ida Galler
    November 30, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 10
    Glidden, Patty Neederman
    July 23, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress and dancer with the Vaudeville unit, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 11
    Glyer, Richard
    July 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project; director with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 19
    Goldberg, Albert
    April 19, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    State director of the Illinois Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 12
    Goodman, Frank
    June 9, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with New York City Federal Theatre Project; director, Department of Information, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 13
    Graham, Hedley Gordon
    February 27, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Theatrical director with the Atlanta, Tampa, and Chicago units of the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 14
    Green, Paul
    December 1, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright, some of whose works were produced by various Federal Theatre Project units.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 15
    Hairston, Jester
    December 27, 1971
    Scope and Contents note

    Musical director with the Los Angeles and San Francisco Federal Theatre Project. Permission to quote more than 100 words required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 16
    Hairston, Jester
    May 29, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Musical director with the Los Angeles and San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 17
    Harris, Julian H.
    October 22, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Art director with the Atlanta Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 18
    Haufrecht, Herbert
    July 18, 1981
    Scope and Contents note

    Staff composer and arranger with Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 19
    Hauser, Ethel Aaron
    February 20, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager and publicity director with the Living Newspaper unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 20
    Hays, Hoffman R.
    June 8, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and researcher with the Living Newspaper unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 21
    Hill, Abram
    February 27, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Play reader and playwright with the New York City Federal Theatre Project. Permission required for commercial use.

  • Mixed Materials box: 5 folder: 22
    Hill, Abram
    March 30, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Play reader and playwright with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 1
    Horn, Axel
    January 3, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Muralist with the Federal Art Project and SECT in New York and Ohio. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 2
    Houghton, Norris
    May 13, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer, critic, producer, designer with the New York theaters in the 1930s.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 3
    Houseman, John
    May 11, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Producer and administrator with the Negro and Classical units, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 4
    Hurwitz, Leo
    September 27, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Participated in the Resettlement Administration. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 5
    Isaacs, Lewis
    November 9, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Son of Edith Isaacs, editor of Theatre Arts Magazine; friend of Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 6
    Izenour, George
    February 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Lighting designer with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 7
    Johnson, Lamont
    May 28, 1976
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    Theatrical director familiar with the Los Angeles and New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 8
    Jonas, Hallie
    May 29, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist and promotion officer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 20
    Kayes, Alan
    May 11, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of information with the New York City Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 9
    Kennedy, Donald Scott
    August 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 10
    Kent, Charlotte
    December 15, 1977
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    Songwriter and composer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 11
    Kinch, Myra
    February 21,1976
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    Choreographer and dancer with the Dance Project, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project. Galea, Manuel.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 12
    Kingston, Lenore
    October 24, 1977
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    Actress with the San Bernardino/Riverside and Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 13
    Kinnard, Henry
    January 3, 1977
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    Stagehand with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 14
    Koch, Howard
    October 26, 1976
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    Playwright with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 15
    Kondolf, George
    February 21, 1976
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    Administrative director, Chicago and New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 21
    Krakow, Leo
    April 30, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Concertmaster of the Grand Rapids, Michigan Federal Theatre Project orchestra.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 16
    Lane, Esther Porter
    September 7, 1976 and July 11, 1977
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    Stage manager, administrator, theatrical director with the New York City Federal Theatre Project, Washington, D.C., and Seattle, WA.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 22
    Lantz, Louis
    May 26, 1976
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    Playwright whose works were produced by the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 17
    Larsen, Agnete Johansen
    November 18,1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the San Francisco and Oakland Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 18
    Laub, Lili Mann
    May 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 19
    Laurence, Paula
    April 20, 1978
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    Actress with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 20
    Lavery, Emmet
    January 5, 1976 and October 17, 1977
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    Administrator with the National Service Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 21
    Lawson, Kathryn Drain
    January 3-4, 1976
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    Director of Bureau of Research and Publication, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Bound with the January 4, 1976 transcript.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 22
    LeNoire, Rosetta
    January 8, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 23
    Leavitt, Max
    November 28, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Puppeteer with the Marionette Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 24
    Lee, J. Edward
    July 20, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with New York City and Chicago Federal Theatre Project. Interview not to be used for gain or profit without the consent of the interviewee.

  • Mixed Materials box: 6 folder: 25
    Lee, Will
    October 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the several units of the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 1
    Lehac, Ned
    June 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Lyricist whose work was featured in the New York City Federal Theatre Project production of Sing For Your Supper.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 2
    Lentz, Josef
    April 7, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator with the New Orleans and Atlanta Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 3
    Lessin, Harry
    January 6, 1976
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    Actor with New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 4
    Leve, Samuel
    February 21, 1976
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    Set designer with New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 5
    Levin, Meyer
    January 4, 1978
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    Playwright whose Model Tenements was produced by the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 6
    Lewitsky, Bella
    March 12, 1979
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    Dancer with the Dance Project, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 7
    Lief, Arthur
    June 7, 1977
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    Teacher and conductor with New York City Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 8
    Lindemulder, Nel
    October 28, 1984
    Scope and Contents note

    Interviewee's husband, Gerhardt Lindemulder, was a director with the Federal Theatre Project in Louisiana and Florida.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 9
    Litvinoff, Valentina
    November 29, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the Children's unit and Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 10
    Lloyd, Joel
    November 14, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Puppet artist with the Marionette unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 11
    Lloyd, Norman
    January 5, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Living Newspaper unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 23
    Luening, Otto
    May 10, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Conductor with the Vermont Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 12
    Lumet, Baruch
    January 25, 1973
    Scope and Contents note

    Father of Sidney Lumet, child actor with the Yiddish unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 13
    Lynch, Dorothea
    March 14, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative director with the Florida Federal Theatre Project. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 14
    McDermott, Thomas
    October 23, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 15
    McLean, Scott R.
    March 20, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Jacksonville and Miami Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 16
    Macchiarini, Peter
    February 23, 1978
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    Marionette artist with the San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 17
    Maltz, Albert
    May 27, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose work was produced by New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 18
    Mann, Dulce Fox
    March 11, 1980
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    Actress with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 19
    Marshall, E.G.
    March 3, 1977
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    Actor with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 20
    Maxwell, Gilbert
    March 3, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Atlanta Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 24
    Meadow, Herb
    August 7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright and researcher with the National Play Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 21
    Meltzer, Allan
    March 18, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 22
    Meredith, Betty Arden
    July 18, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress and researcher with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project; researcher with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project. [see also Donald Murray]

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 23
    Merrill, Mary
    March 8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Costume designer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 25
    Mesa, Fernando
    March 15, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager with the Tampa Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 26
    Miller, Carl
    May 13, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Staff member with the Educational Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 24
    Miller, J. Howard
    January 5, 1976 and October 18, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative director with the West Coast units of Federal Theatre Project; deputy National Director of Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 25
    Monroe, Charles
    November 9, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Member of the Seattle Negro Repertory Theatre in the 1930s. Closed to any government agency.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 26
    Morcom, James S.
    May 10, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Set designer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 27
    Morris, Lawrence S.
    January 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with the New York City Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 7 folder: 28
    Morrow, Fred
    circa 1970s-1980s
    Scope and Contents note

    Director with the Federal Theatre Project in the South; later with the Detroit Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 1
    Moss, Carlton
    August 6, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Theatrical director with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 2
    Murray, Donald and Betty Arden Meredith
    July 20, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor, director, writer with the Southwest Experimental unit of the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 3
    Muse, Clarence
    January 4, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Director with the Negro unit, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 4
    Nadel, Sue Ramos and Paula Bass Perlowin
    October 23, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 5
    Norford, George T.
    October 25, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and playwright who submitted work to the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 6
    Norvelle, Lee R.
    July 11, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Director with the Indiana Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 7
    Ottenheimer, Albert M.
    January 10, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 8
    Page, Ruth
    April 24, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer and choreographer with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 9
    Peterson, Arthur
    July 22, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 10
    Pezman, Theodore
    October 26, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer with the Southwest Experimental unit of the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 11
    Phelps, Eleanor
    December 13, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress and student of Hallie Flanagan at Vassar College. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 12
    Phillips, Wendell
    May 27, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor; director with Suitcase Theatre; assistant director with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 13
    Pierce, Evelyn
    November 10, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of casting with the Talent Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 14
    Pinska, Klarna
    February 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 15
    Pollock, Max, Frances Warde, and Mayfair Freud
    January 8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of the Vaudeville productions, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 16
    Ponch, Martin with Nancy Ponch
    May 26, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor in Yiddish theater and New York University repertory groups during the Federal Theatre Project era.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 17
    Poole, Valter
    April 28, 1983
    Scope and Contents note

    Conductor with the Michigan Works Progress Administration Symphony Orchestra.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 18
    Porter, Don
    January 8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon Federal Theatre Project units. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 19
    Price, Herbert
    July 31, 1980
    Scope and Contents note

    With the Works Progress Administration in Connecticut; also with the Civilian Conservation Corps; founded the Plymouth Playhouse; worked briefly on the set of Faustus.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 20
    Randolph, John
    May 28, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Children's unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 21
    Rather, Lois Rodecap
    August 24, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Researcher of the Chinese theater, Research Department, San Francisco Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 22
    Rauch, Lillian Shapero
    June 10, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Choreographer with the Yiddish unit,New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 23
    Reese, Amos
    July 20, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Radio script writer, Radio Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 24
    Refregier, Anton
    January 2, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, muralist with the Federal Art Project in New York, New Jersey, and California. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 25
    Reich, Molka
    March 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress and director with the marionette unit of the Miami Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 26
    Rella, Ettore
    November 13, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright in New York and San Francisco; write with the Federal Writers Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 27
    Rhodes, Irwin
    February 26, 1977 and May 10, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator and legal counsel for the National Service Bureau, Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 8 folder: 28
    Rich, Shirley
    November 9, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Hallie Flanagan's assistant who collected Flanagan's papers which were donated to the Theatre Collection, New York Public Library.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 1
    Roberts, Gordon
    October 30, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Cleveland, Ohio Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 2
    Robinson, Earl
    August 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer for various productions, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 3
    Robson, William N.
    September 13, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and director with the Radio Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 4
    Romano, Amelia
    March 4, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 5
    Rosten, Norman
    November 14, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright, play reader with the Playwriting Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Prior consent required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 27
    Rubenstein, Lewis
    December 14, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Muralist with the Massachusetts and New York Federal Art Project. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 6
    Russak, Ben
    February 19, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator, Playwriting Bureau, Federal Theatre Project. Permission of interviewee required; copyright conditions.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 7
    Saul, Oscar
    June 2, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright in New York City whose works were produced by Federal Theatre Project.This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 8
    Saunders, Wardell
    October 27, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Negro unit, Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 9
    Savage, George and Gladys, and Guy Williams
    January 6, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright and director with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 10
    Saxe, Al
    March 18, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Director with the Experimental unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 11
    Schenker, Augusta Weissberger
    March 2, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative assistant with the Negro and Classical units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 12
    Schnitzer, Marcella Cisney and Robert
    November 17, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress with the Radio Division, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 13
    Schnitzer, Robert
    November 7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator, Delaware Federal Theatre Project; with Federal Theatre Project national office, Washington, DC; with the San Francisco World's Fair, 1939.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 14
    Schoolman, Mary Sackler
    June 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative assistant to Philip Barber, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 15
    Schrager, Philip
    February 28, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Assistant stage manager with the Living Newspaper unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 16
    Schulman, Rose
    April 15, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative assistant to Jasper Deeter, first director of the Pennsylvania/New Jersey Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 17
    Schulman, Sol
    January 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Audience member, New York City Federal Theatre Project productions.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 28
    Schuman, William
    May 3, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer, New York City Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 18
    Scooler, Zvee
    April 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Director of the Anglo-Jewish unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 19
    Shaw, Zachary
    August 27, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Puppeteer with the Marionette unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 20
    Sherman, Hiram
    April 18, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 21
    Sherman, Vincent
    January 7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Writer and playwright in New York City at the time of the Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 22
    Shibley, Eleanor Scherr
    August 5, 1976 and September 22, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actress, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 23
    Shohet, Max
    January 26, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 24
    Shrewsbury, Robert
    June 11, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Chicago, Peoria, and Miami Federal Theatre Project; worked with sets and costumes in Chicago.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 25
    Sidney, P. Jay
    October 25, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Children's and Negro units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 29
    Siegal, Fritz
    April 27, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Concertmaster with the Federal Music Project Illinois Symphony.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 26
    Siegmeister, Elie
    May 8, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer with the New York City Federal Theatre Project; wrote the score for Federal Theatre Project's Created Equal.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 27
    Silvera, John
    July 11, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Publicist with the Negro unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 28
    Simon, Louis
    October 25, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrative director, New Jersey Federal Theatre Project; director of repertory unit, Roslyn, New York City Federal Theatre Project. Written permission of interviewee required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 9 folder: 29
    Sklar, George
    January 2, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright in New York City whose work was produced by the Federal Theatre Project. Permission to quote required by interviewee.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 1
    Slane, Michael Andrew
    May 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Director, Denver Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 30
    Smith, Carlton Sprague
    April 8, 1982
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with Composers's Forum and Copying Project of the Federal Music Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 2
    Sokolow, Anna
    November 9, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Choreographer, New York City Federal Theatre Project. This is an untaped interview.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 3
    Solman, Joseph
    January 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist, New York City Federal Art Project. Permission of interviewer required for publication.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 4
    Sour, Robert
    October 31, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Songwriter whose works were performed by New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 5
    Spayde, Sydney H.
    July 19, 1982
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    Administrator with Iowa Federal Theatre Project; assistant to E.C. Mabie, regional director for the Midwest Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 6
    Staton, Joseph
    January 7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 7
    Stavis, Barrie
    November 8, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright whose work was produced by the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 8
    Stone, Gene
    July 21, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Composer and arranger with the Vaudeville unit, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 9
    Stover, Frederick
    June 8, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Set designer, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 10
    Strassberg, Maurice
    January 24, 1973
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Anglo-Jewish unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 11
    Stuckmann, Eugene
    February 23, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the New Hampshire Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 12
    Suib, Leonard
    April 19, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Puppeteer in New York City familiar with the Marionette and Children's units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 13
    Sundgaard, Arnold
    September 5, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright in Chicago whose work was produced by the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 14
    Talbot, Clarence
    July 21, 1977
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    Administrator, director, actor, and playwright involved with the Seattle and Tacoma Federal Theatre Project, and the Des Moines Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 15
    Teichmann, Howard
    April 18, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage Manager with the Mercury Theatre, New York.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 31
    Thomas, Ted
    October 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Theatrical director with the Classical unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 16
    Thomson, Virgil
    November 5, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Musical director with the Negro and Classical units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 32
    Thomson, Virgil
    May 11, 1982
    Scope and Content

    Musical director with the Negro and Classical units, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 17
    Tilton, Mary Seek
    January 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with the National Youth Administration and the Works Progress Administration in Iowa.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 18
    Tyler, Converse
    December 15, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator, National Play Bureau, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 33
    Valiant, Margaret
    April 14, 1979
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with the Resettlement Administration.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 19
    Velie, Jay
    May 24, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Actor with the Roslyn, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 20
    Wallace, Lea
    June 13, 1980
    Scope and Contents note

    Dancer with Tamiris's group, Dance Project, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 21
    Ward, Theodore
    April 7-8, 1974
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright based in Chicago whose works were produced by the Federal Theatre Project. Permission to quote over 100 words required.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 22
    Ward, Theodore
    August 13, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Playwright based in Chicago whose works were produced by the Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 23
    Wasserman, Dale
    January 23, 1973
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager, actor, and lighting technician with the Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 24
    Wasserman, Dale
    May 30, 1976
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    Stage manager, actor, and lighting technician, Los Angeles Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 25
    Weisberg, Sara Thomas
    April 6, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator, Atlanta Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 26
    Weissberger, Arnold
    April 19, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Lawyer who represented Orson Welles and John Houseman. Available in digital format.

  • Mixed Materials box: 10 folder: 27
    Welles, Halsted
    November 17, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Director with the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 1
    White, Charles
    December 29, 1971
    Scope and Contents note

    Muralist with the Illinois Federal Art Project. Permission needed to quote over 100 words.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 2
    Whiteside, Duncan
    August 13, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Lighting director and technician with the Chicago Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 3
    Wilder, Grace
    July 15, 1977
    Scope and Contents note

    Administrator with the Marionette unit of the New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 4
    Wilkes, Nathan
    November 28, 1978
    Scope and Contents note

    Puppeteer and lighting designer with the Marionette unit, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 5
    Williams, Guy
    January 6-7, 1976
    Scope and Contents note

    Theatrical director with the Seattle Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 6
    Williams, Jay
    September 8, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Stage manager with the Children's theater, New York City Federal Theatre Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 7
    Wilson, Ellis
    February 25, 1975
    Scope and Contents note

    Artist with the Illinois and New York Federal Art Project.

  • Mixed Materials box: 11 folder: 8
    Yasko, Karel
    1983
    Scope and Contents note

    Worked with the GSA; recovered many Federal Art Project works and murals.

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Series 2: Audio Recordings
1938-1984
(boxes 12-41)
Scope and Content

Series 2: Audio Recordings consists of two subseries: Oral history interviews, and Plays, radio interviews, conferences. Subseries 2.1: Oral history interviews contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee. The oral histories were created between 1961 and 1984 by the Research Center on the Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University. Subseries 2.2: Plays, radio interviews, conferences contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings of various federal theatre performances, interviews, and conferences that date from 1938 to 1984 and is arranged alphabetically by title.

  • Subseries 2.1: Oral history interviews
    1961-1983
    Scope and Content

    Subseries 2.1: Oral history interviews contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee. The oral histories were created between 1961 and 1984 by the Research Center on the Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University.

    • Audio box: 40
      Abelman, Ida
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 43
      Access copies
      1976-1978
    • Audio box: 40
      Alston, Charles
      January 27, 1975
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes; Hatch-Billops collection

    • Audio box: 41
      Anderson, Arthur
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 12
      Anderson, Thomas
      May 23, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Andrus, Zoray
      February 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Archer, Osceola
      January 3, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Bacon, Ernst
      April 23, 1982
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Baird, Bill
      November 8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Bales, Richard Horner
      June 2, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes. See also box 30 [need to change] tape with Salinger and Gordon Onstad on side 1 and Richard Bales on side 2.

    • Audio box: 12
      Bales, William
      May 23, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Banfield, Beryl
      May 22, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 12
      Barber, Philip
      November 11, 1975
      Scope and Content

      9 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Barber, Philip
      November 11, 1975
      Scope and Content

      Four 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recordings

    • Audio box: 13
      Barlin, Anne Lief
      October 25, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Baron, Paul
      December 5, 1979
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Bates, Add
      November 30, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Bay, Howard
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Bay, Howard
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 13
      Bentley, Eric
      May 12, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Bentley, Joanne Davis
      May 13, 1976
      Scope and Content

      8 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Benton, Thomas Hart
      1964
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Berenberg, Ben
      August 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Berman, Harold
      November 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Berman, Harold
      November 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 14
      Bessie, Alvah
      1979
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 13
      Birchenall, Jack
      November 18, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes. Access copy available on CD in box 43.

    • Audio box: 14
      Blake, Eubie
      January 9, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Blankfort, Michael
      July 22, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Bolotowski, Ilya
      January 30, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Borowski, Maxine
      June 2, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Bosworth, Francis
      September 29, 1978
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Breen, Robert and Wilva Davis
      November 27, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 14
      Brocco, Peter
      June 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 15
      Brocco, Peter
      June 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Bromley, Robert
      June 30, 1977
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 15
      Brook, Alexander
      January 2, 1979
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 39
      Brown, Lorraine
      January 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording: Brown describes interviews with Vincent Sherman and Harry Lessin

    • Audio box: 15
      Browne, Theodore
      October 22, 1975
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Bruskin, Perry
      October 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Burris-Meyer, Harold
      March 14, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Buttitta, Tony
      January 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Cardwell, Laurence
      March 17, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Carter, Clarence Holbrook
      1974
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Catlett, Elizabeth
      December 8, 1981
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 15
      Chaivoe, Nick
      January 18, 1978
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Chase, Mary Coyle
      August 9, 1979
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Chavkin, Samuel
      May 22, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Chesse, Ralph
      1974?
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Chesse, Ralph
      June 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes (3 of which are from an interview with his son; these are possibly from 1974)

    • Audio box: 39
      Chesse, Ralph
      June 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      One 7" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 16
      Chilkovsky, Nadia
      May 25, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Cikovsky, Nicolai
      July 18, 1980
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Clark, Maurice
      August 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Clark, Maurice and Helen Fisher
      August 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 16
      Clarke, David
      July 21, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Clebanoff, Herman
      April 21, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 tapes (Herman Clebanoff also listed on Albert Goldberg tape)

    • Audio box: 40
      Clugston, Kate
      December 28, 1984
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Cohen, Elizabeth Elson
      January 14, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Cohn, Arthur
      May 6, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 16
      Coleman, Ralf
      November 21, 1975
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 37
      Coleman, Ralf
      November 21, 1975
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 42
      Coleman, Ralf
      November 21, 1975
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 17
      Coleman, Ralf
      November 24, 1972
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 17
      Corey, Jeff
      October 24, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Cotten, Joseph
      February 22, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Courlander, Harold
      August 10, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Cox, Margaret
      February 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Cox, Margaret
      February 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 17
      Cronbach, Robert
      February 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Croydon, Joan
      December 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Cunningham, Michele Elliott
      May 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      8 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Da Silva, Howard
      May 24, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Da Silva, Howard
      May 24, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 17
      Daly, Frank
      June 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Danzig, Frank
      July 19, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 17
      Davidson, Julius
      December 14, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Davidson, Julius
      December 14, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 40
      Deeter, Jasper
      undated
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Deeter, Jasper
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 41
      Deeter, Jasper on directing and acting
      undated
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      DeKoven, Roger
      January 8, 1980
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      De Paur, Leonard
      December 2, 1976
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Dehn, Mura
      April 20, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Del Bourgo, Fanya Geltman
      December 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Denby, Edwin
      March 2, 1977
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Dowell, George B.
      April 30, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Du Bois, Shirley Graham
      May 28, 1975
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Dudley Jr., Edward
      October 27, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Durham, C.J.S. (Jack)
      June 23, 1983
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 18
      Ebsen, Nancy Wolcott
      June 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 19
      Ebsen, Nancy Wolcott
      June 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 19
      Edwards, Ben
      December 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 19
      Eldridge, Elaine
      November 27, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Elliott, Ross
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 19
      Elson, Charles and Diane Rivers
      December 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 19
      Engel, Lehman
      October 23, 1976 and May 8, 1982
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 19
      Ewing, Kay
      November 27, 1979
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Farley, Morgan
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 19
      Farmer, Virginia
      August 11, 1976
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Farmer, Virginia
      August 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Farmer, Virginia
      June 1983
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Farmer, Virginia
      undated
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Farmer, Virginia
      undated
    • Audio box: 19
      Farnsworth, William
      March 16, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 19
      Farran, Don
      January 3, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 37
      Farran, Don
      January 3, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 39
      Farran, Don
      January 3, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 19
      Feder, Abe
      May 13, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Feder, Abe
      May 13, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Feder, Abe
      May 13, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 20
      Fishel, H.L. (Bud)
      October 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Fishel, H.L. (Bud)
      October 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 20
      Fisher, Granville
      March 19, 1977
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Fogel, Seymour
      September 24, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Forbes, Leon
      July 19, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes with Jack Wilson

    • Audio box: 20
      Francis, Arlene
      April 17, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Frank, Allan
      October 25, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Frankel, Lillian Berson
      October 10, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Freeman, Charles K.
      February 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Freeman, Charles K.
      February 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 42
      Freud, Mayfair
      January 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 20
      Freud, Mayfair
      January 5-8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes, 3 with Max Pollock and Frances Ward

    • Audio box: 41
      Freud, Mayfair
      January 5-8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Freud, Ralph
      November 1, 1961
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 39
      Freud, Ralph
      November 1, 1961
      Scope and Content

      One 7" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 20
      Friar, Kimon
      May 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Garnet, Eva Desca
      October 26, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 20
      Geer, Will
      June 1, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Gellert, Lawrence (Larry)
      October 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 tapes including "Negro songs of protest" collected by Gellert Available in digital format - 3 CDs

    • Audio box: 21
      Gerrard, Saida
      February 21, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Gilbert, Lou
      April 16, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Gilder, Rosamond
      November 16, 1975 and February 19, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Gilder, Rosamond
      February 19, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 21
      Gilman, Harold and Ida
      November 30, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Glidden, Patty Neederman
      July 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Glyer, Richard
      July 19, 1977
    • Audio box: 21
      Goldberg, Albert
      April 19, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 tapes; with "Clebanoff"

    • Audio box: 21
      Goodman, Frank
      June 9, 1977
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Gordon, Eric
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape; "not an interview"

    • Audio box: 21
      Graham, Hedley Gordon
      February 27 and May 27, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 21
      Green, Paul
      December 1, 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 22
      Green, Paul
      December 1, 1975
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Green, Paul
      undated
      Scope and Content

      Three 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 22
      Hairston, Jester
      December 27, 1971 and May 29, 1976
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 39
      Hansel, Eva
      circa 1970s-1980s
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 22
      Harris, Julian H.
      October 22, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 22
      Haufrecht, Herbert
      July 18, 1981
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 22
      Hauser, Ethel Aaron
      February 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Hauser, Ethel Aaron
      February 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 41
      Hauser, Ethel Aaron
      February 20, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 22
      Hays, Hoffman R.
      June 8, 1977
    • Audio box: 41
      Heider, Fred
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 22
      Hill, Abram
      February 27, 1977 and March 30, 1978
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Holland, Joe
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 22
      Horn, Axel
      January 3, 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 22
      Houghton, Norris
      May 13, 1976
    • Audio box: 22
      Houseman, John
      May 11, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Houseman, John
      October 31, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape of John Houseman speaking on the Federal Theatre at the University of Wisconsin Federal Theatre seminar

    • Audio box: 23
      Hurwitz, Leo
      September 27, 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Izenour, George
      February 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 40
      Jelliffe, Rowena
      April 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Jelliffe, Rowena
      December 30, 1982
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Jelliffe, Russell Memorium
      circa 1980
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes; "In memory of the life of Russell Jelliffe (1891-1980)"

    • Audio box: 23
      Johnson, Lamont
      May 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Johnson, Lamont
      May 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 23
      Jonas, Hallie
      May 29, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Kayes, Alan
      May 11, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes; see also Leuning, Otto

    • Audio box: 23
      Kennedy, Donald Scott
      September 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 37
      Kennedy, Donald Scott
      August 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 23
      Kent, Charlotte
      December 15, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Kinch, Myra and Manuel Galea
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Kinch, Myra and Manuel Galea
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Kinch, Myra and Manuel Galea
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 23
      Kingston, Lenore
      October 24, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Kinnard, Henry
      January 3, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Koch, Howard
      October 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 23
      Kondolf, George
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Kondolf, George
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 23
      Krakow, Leo
      April 30, 1982
    • Audio box: 23
      Lane, Esther Porter
      September 7, 1976 and July 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 24
      Lane, Esther Porter
      July 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Lane, Esther Porter
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 24
      Lantz, Louis
      May 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 24
      Laub, Lili Mann
      May 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 24
      Laurence, Paula
      April 20, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Lavery, Emmet
      January 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 24
      Lavery, Emmet
      January 5, 1976 and October 17, 1977
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 37
      Lavery, Emmet
      January 5, 1976 and October 17, 1977
      Scope and Content

      Three 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 24
      Lawson, Kathryn Drain
      January 3-4, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Lawson, Kathryn Drain
      January 3-4, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 24
      LeNoire, Rosetta
      January 8, 1977
    • Audio box: 24
      Leavitt, Max
      November 28, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 24
      Lee, J. Edward
      July 20, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 24
      Lee, Will
      September 22, 1976
    • Audio box: 25
      Lee, Will
      September 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lehac, Ned
      May-June 1977
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 25
      Lentz, Josef
      April 7, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lessin, Harry
      January 6, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 25
      Leve, Samuel (Sam),
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 38
      Leve, Samuel
      February 21, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 25
      Levin, Meyer
      January 4, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lewitsky, Bella
      March 12, 1979
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 39
      Lewitsky, Bella
      circa 1970s-1980s
      Scope and Content

      Two 7" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 25
      Lief, Arthur
      June 7, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lipe, Howard
      December 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 25
      Litvinoff, Valentina
      November 29, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lloyd, Joel
      November 14, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lloyd, Norman
      January 3-5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Lloyd, Norman
      January 3-5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 42
      Lloyd, Norman
      January 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 25
      Luening, Otto
      May 10, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 tapes, 1 with Alan Kayes

    • Audio box: 25
      Lumet, Baruch
      January 25, 1973
    • Audio box: 41
      Lurie, Helen Couler
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 25
      Lynch, Dorothea
      March 14, 1977
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Lynch, Dorothea
      March 14, 1977
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      MacDonald, Norman
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 26
      McDermott, Thomas
      October 23, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      McDermott, Thomas
      October 23, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 26
      McLean, Scott R.
      March 20, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      McMahon, Audrey
      December 14, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Macchiarini, Peter
      February 23, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Maltz, Albert
      May 27, 1976
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Mann, Dulce Fox
      March 11, 1980
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Marshall, E.G.
      March 3, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Maxwell, Gilbert
      March 3, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Meadow, Herb
      August 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Meltzer, Allan
      March 18, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 26
      Meredith, Betty Arden
      July 18, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Mesa, Fernando
      March 15, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Miller, Carl
      May 13, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 tapes, 1 with Virgil Thompson

    • Audio box: 42
      Miller, J. Howard
      January 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 27
      Miller, J. Howard
      1976-1979
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes: 2 from January 5, 1976, 2 from October 18, 1977, 2 from June 1, 1979

    • Audio box: 27
      Monroe, Charles
      November 9, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Morcom, James S
      May 10, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Morrow, Fred
      circa 1970s-1980s
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Moss, Carlton
      August 6, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Moss, Carlton
      August 6, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 27
      Murray, Donald and B. Meredith
      July 20, 1977
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 27
      Muse, Clarence
      January 4, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Muse, Clarence
      January 4, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 27
      Nadel, Sue Ramos
      October 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Nadel, Sue Ramos and Paula Bass Perlowin
      October 23, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Neff, Earl
      undated
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Norvelle, Lee R.
      July 11, 1979
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      O'Brien, Peggy Goodwin
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 28
      Ottenheimer, Albert M.
      January 10, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Page, Ruth
      April 24, 1979
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Peterson, Arthur
      July 22, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Pezman, Theodore
      October 26, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Phillips, Wendell
      May 27, 1975
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Pierce, Evelyn
      November 10, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Pinska, Klarna
      February 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Pollock, Max
      January 8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Pollock, Max
      undated
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 28
      Ponch, Martin and Nancy Ponch
      May 26, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 28
      Randolph, John
      May 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 29
      Randolph, John
      May 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Rather, Lois Rodecap
      August 24, 1979
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 29
      Rauch, Lillian Shapero
      June 10, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Refregier, Anton
      January 2, 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Reich, Molka
      March 19, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Reid, Elliott
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 29
      Rella, Ettore
      November 13, 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Rella, Ettore
      November 13, 1975
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 29
      Rhodes, Irwin
      February 26 and May 10, 1977
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Rich, Shirley
      November 9, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Roberts, Gordon
      October 30, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Robinson, Earl
      August 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 38
      Russak, Ben
      February 19, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 29
      Robson, William N.
      September 13, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 29
      Romano, Amelia
      March 4, 1977
      Scope and Content

      5 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 30
      Rosten, Norman
      November 14, 1975
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Rosten, Norman
      undated
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 30
      Rubenstein, Lewis
      December 14, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 30
      Russak, Ben
      February 19, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 40
      Salinger and Gordon Onstad I; Goldberg I
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 40
      Salinger and Gordon Onstad II "176-433"; Richard Bales
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 30
      Saxe, Al
      March 18, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 30
      Schenker, Augusta Weissberger
      March 2, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 30
      Schnitzer, Robert
      November 17, 1975 and November 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      7 cassette tapes, "Schnitzer and M. Cisney" Available in digital format - 2 CDs

    • Audio box: 42
      Schnitzer, Robert
      undated
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 30
      Schoolman, Mary Sackler
      June 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Schoolman, Mary Sackler
      June 22, 1976
    • Audio box: 30
      Schrager, Philip
      February 28, 1979
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 30
      Schulman, Rose
      April 15, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Schulman, Rose
      April 15, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 30
      Schulman, Sol
      January 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 42
      Schulman, Sol
      January 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 30
      Schuman, William
      May 3, 1982
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 31
      Schuman, William
      May 3, 1982
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 31
      Scooler, Zvee
      April 19, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Shaw, Zachary
      August 27, 1979
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Sherman, Hiram
      April 18, 1978
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Sherman, Vincent
      undated
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes; Harry Lessin

    • Audio box: 31
      Shibley, Eleanor Scherr
      August 5 and September 22, 1976
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Shohet, Max
      January 26, 1978
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Shrewsbury, Robert
      June 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Sidney, P. Jay
      October 25, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Siegal, Fritz
      April 27, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Siegmeister, Elie
      May 8, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Silvera, John
      July 11, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 31
      Simon, Louis
      October 25, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 32
      Simon, Louis
      October 25 and December 28, 1976
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Sklar, George
      January 2, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 38
      Sklar, George
      January 2, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Three 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 32
      Slane, Michael Andrew
      May-June 1979
      Scope and Content

      8 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 40
      Smith and Siegmeister
      undated
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape. Smith to 124; Siegmeister 129 to end; Siegmeister II; then a strange tone.

    • Audio box: 32
      Smith, Carlton Sprague
      April 8, 1982
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Solman, Joseph
      January 1975
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Sour, Robert
      October 31, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Staton, Joseph
      January 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 38
      Staton, Joseph
      January 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 42
      Staton, Joseph
      January 7, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 32
      Stavis, Barrie
      November 8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Stone, Gene
      July 21, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Stover, Frederick
      June 8, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 32
      Strassberg, Maurice (Morris)
      January 24, 1973
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 33
      Strassberg, Maurice (Morris)
      January 24, 1973
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 33
      Stuckmann, Eugene
      February 23, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 38
      Stuckmann, Eugene
      February 23, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 33
      Suib, Leonard
      April 19, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 33
      Sundgaard, Arnold
      September 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Sundgaard, Arnold
      September 5, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 33
      Talbot, Clarence
      July 21, 1977
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 33
      Teichmann, Howard
      April 18, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Teichmann, Howard
      April 18, 1977
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 33
      Thomas, Ted
      October 19, 1977
    • Audio box: 33
      Thomson, Virgil
      October 5 and November 5, 1976; May 11, 1982
      Scope and Content

      6 cassette tapes Available in digital format.

    • Audio box: 33
      Tilton, Mary Seek
      January 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 33
      Tyler, Converse
      December 15, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 38
      Tyler, Converse
      December 15, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Two 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 42
      Tyler, Converse
      December 15, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 41
      Unidentified interview
      undated
      Scope and Content

      White tape with no label. Unidentified interview with male interviewee and female interviewer.

    • Audio box: 41
      Unidentified interview
      undated
      Scope and Content

      White tape with a Memorex label, side 2 has been crossed out and replaced with a 3. Tape contains approximately 3 minutes of an interview with an unidentified man.

    • Unidentified interview
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording. Handwritten on box "George Kondolf" (strikethrough) "erase".

    • Audio box: 33
      Valiant, Margaret
      April 14, 1979
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 33
      Velle, Jay
      May 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 34
      Velle, Jay
      May 24, 1978
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 34
      Wallace, Lea
      June 13, 1980
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 34
      Ward, Theodore
      April 7-12, 1974 and August 13, 1976
      Scope and Content

      12 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 34
      Wasserman, Dale
      January 23, 1973 and May 30, 1976
      Scope and Content

      9 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 41
      Wasserman, Dale
      May 30, 1976
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 34
      Weisberg, Sara Thomas
      April 6, 1977
    • Audio box: 34
      Weissberger, Arnold
      April 19, 1977
    • Audio box: 34
      Welles, Halsted
      November 17, 1975
      Scope and Content

      1 cassette tape

    • Audio box: 38
      Welles, Halstead
      November 17, 1975
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 34
      White, Charles
      December 29, 1971
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 34
      Whiteside, Duncan
      August 13, 1978
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Whiteside, Duncan
      August 13, 1978
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Wilder, Grace
      July 15, 1977
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Wilkes, Nathan (Nat)
      November 28, 1978
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Williams, Guy (with George and Gladys Savage)
      January 6, 1976
      Scope and Content

      3 cassette tapes. Access copy available on CD in box 43.

    • Audio box: 38
      Williams, Guy, Blanche Morgan, George Savage,
      January 6, 1976
      Scope and Content

      Three 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 42
      Williams, Guy, Blanche Morgan Losey
      January 8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      One 5" reel-to-reel audio tape recording

    • Audio box: 35
      Williams, Guy
      January 8, 1976
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes. Access copy available on CD in box 43.

    • Audio box: 35
      Williams, Jay
      September 8, 1975
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Wilson, Ellis
      February 25, 1975
      Scope and Content

      4 cassette tapes

    • Audio box: 35
      Yasko, Karel
      1983
      Scope and Content

      2 cassette tapes

    • Subseries 2.2: Plays, radio interviews, conferences
      1938-1984
      Scope and Content

      Subseries 2.2: Plays, radio interviews, conferences contains audio cassette tapes and reel-to-reel recordings of various federal theatre performances, interviews, and conferences that date from 1938 to 1984 and is arranged alphabetically by title.

      • Audio box: 35
        Black MacBeth
        May 29, 1977
        Scope and Content

        2 cassette tapes: Roundtable discussion with Leonard de Paur, John Silvera, Tommy Anderson and Ted Browne in New York City

      • Audio box: 39
        Audio tape for ATA
        August 1977
        Scope and Content

        One 5" reel to reel: collection of Black Federal Theatre interviews for a talk by Lorraine Brown

      • Audio box: 35
        Cradle Will Rock
        1938
        Scope and Content

        3 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 35
        Dramatized Federal Theatre Project story
        June 9, 1980
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape: 10 minutes, Kathleen Sykora, Mary Peterson, Goodman School

      • Audio box: 35
        John Ezell at George Mason University
        November 22, 1976
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape: Ezell with Bowers, Krulak, John O'Connor, Walsh, and Wheeler

      • Audio box: 35
        Harms, Carl: CETA speech
        March 23, 1981
        Scope and Content

        2 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 35
        Iron Clad Agreement
        February 17, 1984
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape: Radio Theatre of the Air, Pittsburgh Theatre Company, written and produced by Ronald Hankerson, voices and characters by Mark Harlow, Wilson Hutton, M.M. Melosi

      • Audio box: 36
        Labor Theatre: Everyday is Christmas
        undated
        Scope and Content

        3 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Labor Theatre: Help Yourself
        undated
        Scope and Content

        3 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Labor Theatre: Voice in the Dark
        undated
        Scope and Content

        3 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Liberty Deferred
        March 12, 1980
        Scope and Content

        2 cassette tapes: as performed by the Theatre of St. John's Church in New York City

      • Audio box: 36
        No Help Wanted
        1939
        Scope and Content

        2 cassette tapes: as performed by the Theatre of St. John's Church in New York City

      • Audio box: 39
        No Help Wanted
        1939
        Scope and Content

        Two 7" reel to reels

      • Audio box: 36
        Oral History Program
        January 9, 1977
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape: WEEL radio program on the Federal Theatre Project Oral History program, interview with John O'Connor and selections from Oral History tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Oral History Program
        February 27, 1976
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape: Radio interview on WPRW with Diane Bowers and Madalee Week; 8 minutes

      • Audio box: 36
        Robeson, Paul (The House I live in) Ballad for Americans
        undated
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape

      • Audio box: 36
        Robinson, Earl (concert at George Mason University)
        undated
        Scope and Content

        8 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Setting the Stage and Beyond
        August 22-23, 1979
        Scope and Content

        7 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        Spirochete: "Dark Harvest" and "Innkeeper's Song"
        circa 1930s
        Scope and Content

        2 cassette tapes

      • Audio box: 36
        The Story of Joseph
        undated
        Scope and Content

        Bible story script produced by Mike Lodick; 30 minutes

      • Audio box: 39
        The Story of Swing
        1939
        Scope and Content

        One 7" reel to reel

      • Audio box: 36
        Women in the Making of America
        May 19, 1939
        Scope and Content

        1 cassette tape; 30 minutes

      • Audio box: 39
        WQXR Music Makers: Black Musicals on the Great White Way, Leonard de Paur
        1969
        Scope and Content

        One 7" reel to reel

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