Manuscripts

Series IX. Index cards

Description: Contains index cards created by Susan Naulty, who oversaw Prints & Ephemera. These cards are the only item-level source for locating performers and performance by name for all materials but particularly for photographs. Card includes the following information: date, name, activity, title, theater, and special event.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1687-2013.
Call number: mssPlayhouse
Creator: Pasadena Playhouse(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Pasadena Playhouse Alumni and Associates,; Additional gifts have been supplemented by former affiliates of the Playhouse over the years.

Card catalog indexes

Manuscripts

Card catalog containing indexes to the Pasadena Playhouse and the Theater Collection. The catalog provides an alphabetical index of people involved with the Playhouse, with cards listing name, role in a production and production title, date, and venue. The Theatre Collection provides information on productions arranged by playwright, region, programs in chronological order and by performer. Also includes an index of photographs previously in the photCL 327 or Album 327 collection.

mssPlayhouse

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Published materials index

Manuscripts

Index cards for reference books in the library, copies of published plays, and mentions in publications about Pasadena history and Pasadena Playhouse history.

mssPlayhouse

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Performer Index

Manuscripts

Contains professional photographs, biographical information, and clippings about performers, arranged alphabetically by last name. Performers were not necessarily involved with the Playhouse.

mssPlayhouse

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Series I. Administrative

Manuscripts

This collection contains the records of the Pasadena Playhouse, a community theater established in Pasadena, California, in 1917. Materials consist primarily of theater programs, scrapbooks, business records, correspondence, clippings, scripts, school catalogues, brochures and ephemera, indexes, photographs, original drawings of set and costume designs, and research materials originally housed in the organization's library. The materials document the performance history of the various theaters of the Playhouse and also contain partial administrative records and school records, with particular strength in coverage for the "Mainstage" theater and an extensive run of programs and performance photographs. The core records are strengthened by the complementary personal paper collections of directors, performers, and others associated with the Playhouse.

mssPlayhouse

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Series II. Playhouse history

Manuscripts

mssPlayhouse

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Departments - Editorial - Editorial Library - Negative index

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 sheets. Photocopies of index cards with info on LAT photographic negative collection - subject name, date of photograph, serial number for locating negatives in collection, and phrase describing the photograph. Material from 1940s, 1950s, etc. Index is incomplete.

mssLAT

Series IX. Index cards

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