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George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
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Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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Greta Kuriger Suiter
Administrative Information
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Dorothea Thomas Lynch papers must be obtained from Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions.
Preferred Citation
The Dorothea Thomas Lynch papers, #C0242, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Dorothea Thomas Lynch on March 14, 1977.
Processing Information
Processing completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September 2013. EAD markup completed by Greta Kuriger Suiter in September 2013.
Biographical note
Dorothea Thomas Lynch was the State Director of the Federal Theatre Project in Florida. Before joining the FTP she worked for eight years as the Head of the Rollins College dramatic department.
The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression.
Scope and Content
The Dorothea Thomas Lynch papers contains correspondence, issues of the Federal Theatre bulletin, issues of the Federal Theatre in the South, production notes, scripts, and set designs for the production The Girl of the Golden West, class outlines for the History of drama, newsclippings about the Florida Federal Theatre Project, and scrapbooks containing programs, photographs, and newsclippings about Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa, Florida Federal Theatre Project productions.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically with oversize materials at the end.
Related Material
The Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, the Federal Theatre Project collection, the Federal Theatre Project photograph collection, as well as numerous other personal papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Actors -- United States
- Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
- Lynch, Dorothea Thomas
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Performing arts
- Scrapbooks
- Theater -- United States
Container List
Includes correspondence between Lynch and Hallie Flanagan.
Correspondence and general information, photocopies.
Programs, photographs, and clippings from Jacksonville productions. Includes programs and photographs of "Animated History of Drama" series performed by Florida State Touring CO. Music and synopsis of If Ye Break Faith. Biography of playwritght Maria Coxe. Clippings and correspondence on termination of the FTP.
Programs, photographs, newspaper clippings about the Miami and Tampa, Florida Federal Theatre. Some material in Spanish.