Department of Theatre Collection, 1920-2014

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Creator:

Barnard College. Department of Theatre and Barnard College. Department of Theatre

Abstract:

This collection documents the Department of Theatre's performances and events from the 1920s through the 2010s.

Extent:

6.40 Linear Feet 12 boxes and 1.74 Gigabytes 788 digital images (.jpg)

Language:

English .

Scope and content:

This collection is comprised of materials that document and promote the Department of Theatre's productions and events from the 1920s to 2014.

Materials include flyers, posters, programs, new clippings, press releases, analog and born digital photographs, slides, negatives, contact sheets, digital media, and one artifact, a dreidel.

Also included in this collection is "The First Steps in Speaking Verse," an undated script by Maude Adams which includes an anthology of poems.

From 1978-1992, the Department of Theatre kept programs, flyers, and other performance ephemera in scrapbooks, which comprise series 2 of this collection.

Biographical / historical:

The Department of Theatre, Barnard College is the theater department for all undergraduate students at Columbia University, which includes Barnard and Columbia Colleges. There are multiple productions in the fall semester in addition to the final project for students in the Advanced Directing course. During the spring semester, the Department of Theater hosts the Senior Thesis Festival, a production directed by faculty or visiting artist, and an evening of Solo Performances. Performances of the Department of Theatre, Barnard College can take place in the Minor Latham Playhouse or the Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater, both located on the Barnard campus.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the Department of Theatre, Barnard College. Photographs transferred from The Office of Communications records in 2018.

Processing information:

This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Hilary Price in October 2014.

This finding aid was updated by Hilary Price in July, 2015.

Olivia Newsome integrated the digital materials into the finding aid in November 2023.

Descriptive Rules Used: Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard. Encoding: Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.

Finding aid written in English.

The original order of the CDs as received by the Archives has not been retained as the arrangement of the material does not reflect the office's current working practice. For the transferred CDs, as part of the processing work done by Archives staff, some intellectual reorganization was undertaken to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement.

Student associates transferred and described the imaged disks in 2018. Olivia Newsome integrated the digital materials into the finding aid in November 2023.

Arrangement:

This collection has been arranged into five series.

Series 1. Performance Ephemera, 1920s–2014
Series 2. Scrapbooks, 1978–1990s
Series 3. Photographic Materials, 1990s-2013
This series contains born-digital materials. Series 4. Artifact(s), undated
Series 5. Performance Media, 2008-2013

Accruals:

Additions are expected.

Physical location:

This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related material:

Additional photographs of performances can be found in BC17, Photography Collection. Additional recordings of performances can be found in BC18, Moving Image Collection. Other related materials can be found in BC13-53, Minor Latham Playhouse/Brinckerhoff Theatre Records.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Single photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:: Department of Theatre Collection, 1920-2014. Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:: Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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