Manuscripts

General

Description: Contains admissions and application materials; Administrative Council meeting minutes; annual reports; memos and policies; clippings; curricular materials including course announcements, proposals, and syllabi; development program; faculty biographies and credentials, instructional activities report, and faculty and staff roster; and fundraising materials.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1925-1990
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.

Mimeograph Scrapbook to 1936

Manuscripts

Contains blank and sample forms for operational undertakings including reports, tests, and balance sheets. Also contains bylaws, student's manuals, rules, announcements, voting forms, memos, sheet music, exam questions, faculty credentials, announcements, press releases, and programs.

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General

Manuscripts

Includes correspondence regarding the library and its collections, 1956-1969; donor lists, receipts, and documentation, 1941-1968, including a souvenir program and typed summary of Honcho 24 Ko and several scrapbook pages containing ephemera; an application for a grant, 1968; inventories, reports, and statistics, 1950, 1962-1963, and undated; requisitions for books, manuscripts, playbooks, and supplies, 1960-1963; reference materials including bibliographies on costume, dance, folklore, and theater arts, plus a list of subject headings for various fields, 1945 and undated, and a general directory of artists, writers, and directors, 1930. Also includes curricular materials on cinema technique and the film industry, 1940 and undated, given to the Library by Fairfax Walkup.

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Programs, articles, clippings

Manuscripts

Contains programs, autographed materials, clippings, and materials concerning the Shakespeare Clubhouse and speech course.

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People

Manuscripts

Contains photographs of actors, actresses, faculty, staff, and students, most of whom are identified. Several photographs may have originally come from disbound scrapbooks.

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Course materials, class lists, and promotional materials

Manuscripts

Contains course outlines, syllabi, class lists, brochures, programs, press releases, promotional materials, and research materials.

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Photographs of cinema, radio, and television production

Manuscripts

Includes Don Lee TV Production, circa 1942, 1954; various views of television production, 1948-1952; First Annual Television Workshop, staff and students, 1953; Second Annual Television Workshop, students, faculty and guest speakers; and performance photos, 1954.

mssPlayhouse

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