Manuscripts
Dramatic reviews
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Scrapbook: Personal letters, telegrams
Manuscripts
Spine reads, "Personal letters, telegrams. Volume VIII. Later 1943 to 1945. Clara Barton Hospital. Chicago Opera Co. 1919-1924." Scrapbook with pasted telegrams, letters, and correspondences. About half of the volume is comprised of letters delivered to Behymer when he had an operation removing a kidney. The other half is comprised of correspondence with newspapers, journals, and conferences.
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Theatre and opera press clippings
Manuscripts
Scrapbook with pasted newspaper clippings about plays, operas, and performers in various locations. Spine reads, "Old Theatre and Opera Favorites. 1905-1906."
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Classification of books in the Library
Manuscripts
Categories include Plays; Play Construction; Costume; Stage Design; History of Stage and Drama; Music; and Miscellaneous, comprising History and Travel, Biography, Philosophy and Religion, General Literature (novels, fiction, essays, and poetry), Technical (encyclopedias, materials regarding fine arts, including radio and television, and periodicals). Also includes Index of Photographs in the Library of Photographs, 1918-1928, compiled by Clinton Clarke.
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Menetta Alma Sparkes Behymer. Starlit trails: a cultural history of the Pacific Southwest
Manuscripts
Bound manuscript by Menetta Alma Sparkes Behymer of biography on husband, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer. Edited and copyrighted by grandson, Glenarvon Behymer, Jr. Spine reads, "Starlit Trails. A Biography of L.E. Behymer: Impressario of the West. 1862-1947. By his wife Menetta S. Behymer."
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Monthly Review of Periodicals and Books
Manuscripts
Pages containing all or portions of the "Monthly Review of Periodicals and Books" section of The Architect for September 6, 1918 (pp. 133-134); March 7, 1919 (pp. 155-158); April 4, 1919 (pp. 241-242); May 30, 1919 (pp. 351-354); July 4, 1919 (pp. 7-10); August 1, 1919 (pp. 71-74); September 5, 1919 (pp. 141-146); October 17, 1919 (pp. 231-234); November 7, 1919 (pp. 275-282); December 5, 1919 (pp. 333-336).
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Subseries A. Music and Theater (large size)
Visual Materials
This subseries contains 372 large-size items that pertain to theatrical and musical entertainment in the United States from 1838 to 1928. The majority of items consist of posters related to the theater, dance and musical spectacles, musicians and concerts, and burlesque, comedy, pantomime, and variety troupes and shows. Many of the posters advertise dramatic productions of plays, and related stage actors and actresses, in genres such as Shakespearian dramas, melodramas, romance, comedy, crime, mystery, and Westerns. Images typically depict scenes from plays and shows or contain portraits of entertainers.
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