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Federal Theatre Project Collection [collection]
- Title
- Federal Theatre Project Collection [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1932-1943
- Bulk: 1935-1938
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 522 ft.
- 43 file cabinets boxes
- Abstract
- An effort of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Federal Theatre Project was designed to reemploy theater workers on public relief; to conserve and develop the skills of administrators, clerical workers, writers, set and costume designers, directors, actors and actresses, technicians, and photographers; and to bring a theater which would be national in scope and regional in emphasis to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances. It functioned from 1935 to 1939, when its funding was terminated. In that brief period, it was responsible for some of the most innovative staging of its time.
- Contents Note
- Correspondence, memoranda, play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals, publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, charts, costume and set designs, blue-prints, posters, addressograph plates, photographs, negatives, slides, playbills, and other records.
- Microfilm available
- No
- Preferred Citation
- Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
- Theater
- Theatrical Design
- Radio/Television
- Women in the Performing Arts
- Flanagan, Hallie
- U.S. Work Projects Administration
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Online Collection
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html
- Finding Aid
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu995001
Last Updated: 08-28-2012