Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum records, 1910-1971

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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum records



Box 1 Agee, James


Box 1 Air Conditioner


Box 1 American Mime Theatre


Box 1 Artistic Properties, Office of


Box 1 Arts Center Libraries


Box 1 Association for Recorded Bound Collection


Box 1 Audio-Visual Resources


Box 1 Bancroft, Prize Bulletin Board


Box 1 Belasco, David


Box 1 Bergman, Kjalmar (1833-1931)(1951?)


Box 1 Berman, Eugene


Box 1 Bernstein, Aline


Box 1 Blom, Benjamin


Box 1 Bond, Bill


Box 1 Bookplate, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 1 Brecht, Bertolt (memorial) (1957) with Eric Bentley, Uta Hagen, 1959


Box 1 British Stage: 1660-1850, 1961


Box 1 British Theatre Museum


Box 1 Broadside


Box 1 Burano, Remo


Box 1 Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1958 July


Box 1 Burton, William Evans (1803(4)-1860)


Box 1 Cataloguing: Systems and Proposals


Box 1 Circus (Future Exhibit in Preparation)


Box 1 circus (Hall Display Case), 1966


Box 1 Color Key and Samples


Box 1 Columbia


Box 1 Columbia Stage (Bicentennial), "Columbia and the Theatre", 1954


Box 1 Columbia Theatre Activities



Box 2 Columbia Theatre Productions (Since Columbia Theatre Associates)


Box 2 Collections


Box 2 Commission for Brander Matthews Theatre


Box 2 Cooper Union (1953 accession)


Box 2 Copy for Recordings


Box 2 Copy-University Bulletins and Guides


Box 2 Copyright-Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Correspondence, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 2 1910-1929


Box 2 1930-1939


Box 2 1940-1949


Box 2 1950-1952


Box 2 1953



Box 3 1954


Box 3 1955


Box 3 1956


Box 3 1957


Box 3 1958


Box 3 1959


Box 3 1960-1963


Box 3 1963-1964


Box 3 1964-1965


Box 3 1965-1966


Box 3 1966-1967


Box 3 1967-1968


Box 3 1969-1970


Box 3 1970


Box 3 1971



Box 4 Costumes


Box 4 Costumes of the World, Theatrical and Artistic, 1949


Box 4 Cushman, Charlotte: manuscript diary


Box 4 Dance in America, 1960


Box 4 Decroux, Etienne Dance Troupe Photographs


Box 4 deLeon, Amanda


Box 4 Designers, Contemporary American Stage


Box 4 Deutsch, Babette


Box 4 Drury Lane Theatre


Box 4 Eastern Europe Theatres: Germany, Poland, Russia, 1960-1961


Box 4 Elche, The Mystery of, 1963


Box 4 Equity, Actor's Equity Association


Box 4 Exhibits and Loans, circa 1947-1963


Box 4 Exhibit Materials to be Identified


Box 4 Exhibits offered to Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 4 Expenditures, 1961-1963; Pay orders: 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1961-1963


Box 4 Expenditures, 1959-1963, receipts and bills, 1959-1963


Box 4 Fiftieth Anniversary (Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum), 1961


Box 4 Finland, Theatre of, 1962


Box 4 Flat Exhibits



Box 5 Floor Plans, Room 412 Low Library


Box 5 Floor Space Allotment, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 5 Forms, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Administrative


Box 5 Forms: Loan receipts, etc. from other institutions


Box 5 Forrest, Edwin


Box 5 Fortune Theatre Model


Box 5 Forum


Box 5 Fragments, Unidentified


Box 5 French Stage Models


Box 5 French Theatre, Portrait of the, 1952


Box 5 Friends of Columbia University Libraries


Box 5 Furniture for Transfer


Box 5 Future Exhibits?


Box 5 Garden of Allah set


Box 5 Gates and Morange


Box 5 General Studies Theatre Project


Box 5 Gifts


Box 5 Globe Theatre Model: Photographs


Box 5 Goodman, Emanuel


Box 5 Globe Theatre Model, 1952


Box 5 Greek Theatre Model


Box 5 Hampden, Walter (memorial) with Howard Lindsay, 1960


Box 5 Hayes, Helen


Box 5 Herod set


Box 5 Hill and Wang


Box 5 History, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum



Box 6 History, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum: Simmonds research, 1966-1967


Box 6 History, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum: Guest Records


Box 6 History, Speech Recordings (Speech Lab.)


Box 6 Holland, Theatrical Art of w/ Benjamin Hunningher, 1954


Box 6 Huguenin, Alice (Mrs. Charles), Gift: April 12, 1967, Travel Postcard


Box 6 Hume, Sam


Box 6 Hurdy-Gurdy


Box 6 India, Theatre of, Photos from Balwant Gargi


Box 6 Indian Theatre, 1959


Box 6 Indian Theatre (w/ Dr. Vatsayan) 2 exhibits, 1961? 1953?


Box 6 Information Centre


Box 6 Inn-Yard Platform


Box 6 Insurance: Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum and Customs


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: 63 page catalog (original)


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: 91 page catalog Master Copy


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: 91 page catalog Copy 2


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: 91 page catalog Copy 3


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: catalog supplement A: 2803-2941 Commedia dell' Arte


Box 6 Jackson Theatre Slides: catalog supplement B: 3366-3467 India, Japan, Vietnam


Box 6 Japan: Hosho no Troupe, 1966


Box 6 Japanese Theatre, 1953


Box 6 Jefferson, Joseph: monotype by


Box 6 Jones, Robert Edmond


Box 6 Kabuki sets (2)


Box 6 Mapcase 15-E-5 Kimberly, Robert (donor); Komisarjevsky, Theodore

Oversize Art Work transfered from Columbia Art Properties in 2008. See mapcase.


Box 6 Les Deux Trouvailles de Gallus set


Box 6 Library or Congress--Cataloging



Box 7 Library or Congress (Record Distributor)


Box 7 List of the Models of Theatres


Box 7 Loan Authorizations


Box 7 Loans by Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum--Returned


Box 7 Loans to Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum--Outstanding


Box 7 Loans to Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum--Returned


Box 7 Loans by Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum--Outstanding


Box 7 Lope De Vega, 1962


Box 7 Lorca Exhibition, 1958


Box 7 Low Library


Box 7 Mailing List


Box 7 Make-up Exhibit, before 1966


Box 7 Mansions stage model, Valenciennes, 1547



Box 8 Masks


Box 8 Masks, Ceylon


Box 8 Masks, India


Box 8 Masks, Italian-Theatrical by Amleto Sartori, 1966


Box 8 Masks, Japan (Orientalia purchase)


Box 8 Masks, Japan, 36 Noh Mask drawings by Sokan Asai


Box 8 Masks, Mexico


Box 8 Masks, Primitive (U/Pa. copies in Ferris Booth Hall for NDEA), 1966


Box 8 Masks, United States


Box 8 Memberships


Box 8 Metzger, Evelyn


Box 8 Mexican Contemporary Set Design, 1959


Box 8 Miller, Dr. James R.


Box 8 Miscellaneous Correspondence


Box 8 MLA Meeting, Dec. 28, 1964; Conference 19; Restoration and 18th Century Restoration


Box 8 Mozart Exhibit, 1956


Box 8 Music Hail & Vaudeville



Box 9 Neagle, Thomas, Oil Portrait of Edwin Forrest


Box 9 Neher, Caspar (Designs), 1959


Box 9 New York Stage, Models of the, 1951


Box 9 New York Theatres, Letters to the Manager of


Box 9 Noh Plays (Hosho Troupe), 1966


Box 9 Obituaries


Box 9 Odell Index: Invoices


Box 9 Odell, G.C.D. (memorial), 1950


Box 9 Oenslager, D.


Box 9 Oenslager, Donald, (Exhibition catalog), 1956


Box 9 Oliver Twist Model


Box 9 Oriental Drama (Classical Age), 1952


Box 9 Pageant Model Wagon


Box 9 Palmer, Paul


Box 9 Patel, Jayanti (Visitor from Bombay)


Box 9 Permissions


Box 9 Perry, Christina (Mrs. Eugene Kilpatrick)


Box 9 Pfeiffer, Gertrude S. (Mrs. Raymond L.)


Box 9 Photographic Services


Box 9 Photographs--8x10 of Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Holdings


Box 9 Photographs--Sets and Masks


Box 9 Photographs--Busts, Paintings, Negatives


Box 9 Pinthus, Kurt "Expressionist Art", 1949


Box 9 Pirandello, 1959


Box 9 Pirandello Society, Correspondence, January 30, 1956-December 23, 1958



Box 10 Pirandello Society, Correspondence, 1959


Box 10 Placzek


Box 10 Playbills, 18th and 19th Century


Box 10 Playbill Lists: Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Haymarket


Box 10 Players, The


Box 10 Players Club, The, 1952


Box 10 Poe Mantel


Box 10 Polakov, Lester


Box 10 Polakov, Lester, 1957


Box 10 Posters, 19th Century


Box 10 Potter, Berne (Mrs. Norman)


Box 10 Praesepe


Box 10 Prints, Photographic "Danish Classics" (Photography by H.J. Myattskov)


Box 10 Program Ideas for Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 10 Prunella


Box 10 Public Relations - Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 10 Puppet (Art of), 1965


Box 10 Puppets, Africa


Box 10 Puppets, Burma


Box 10 Puppets, China


Box 10 Puppets, England


Box 10 Puppets, France


Box 10 Puppets, Haiti


Box 10 Puppets, Italy


Box 10 Puppets, India


Box 10 Puppets, Japan


Box 10 Puppets, Java


Box 10 Puppets, Mexico


Box 10 Puppets, Photographs


Box 10 Puppets, Siam


Box 10 Puppets, Turkey


Box 10 Puppets, United States



Box 11 Puppet Catalog Data


Box 11 Puppet Catalog--Excess materials


Box 11 Puppets


Box 11 Puppeteers of America


Box 11 Record Orders: Chambers


Box 11 Record Orders: Miscellaneous


Box 11 Record Orders: National Record Plan


Box 11 Record Orders: Sam Goody


Box 11 Requests for Loans - Not Honored


Box 11 Return of Peter Grimm, The Model of Stage Set, David Belasco, Author and Producer


Box 11 Riverside


Box 11 Roman Theatre (at Orange) model


Box 11 Roth, Wolfgang (Designs), 1959


Box 11 Russian Theatre, 1951


Box 11 Russian Theatre, 1960


Box 11 Sackler Collections (Dr. Arthur M.)


Box 11 St. Cyr. Dirce


Box 11 Salzburg Exhibition, July 1957


Box 11 Sandak Slides


Box 11 Sanskrit Theatre Model


Box 11 Scandinavian Theatre Exhibit, 1955


Box 11 Schiller (Bicentennial of Birth), 1959



Box 12 School of the Arts


Box 12 Sculpture


Box 12 Serlio Scenery Model


Box 12 Shakespeare, 1952


Box 12 Shakespeare Encyclopedia


Box 12 Shakespeare in Performance, 1948


Box 12 Shakespeare on the Stage, Nov. 1957-Jan.1958


Box 12 Shakespeare, Recording Society, Inc.


Box 12 Shakespearian Actors, 1964


Box 12 Shaw, Goulda (Designs), 1957


Box 12 Smith, Milton


Box 12 Southern, Richard, 1958


Box 12 Southern, Richard, Theatre Architecture (Prepared Exhibit)


Box 12 Souvenir Programs


Box 12 Spanish Theatre Model (Proposed)


Box 12 Spoken Arts


Box 12 Staff


Box 12 Stettheimer, Florine


Box 12 Stratford Shakespeare Festival, 1952, 1960


Box 12 Strindberg Production Photos (from Sweden), 1958


Box 12 Sznajderman, Marius (Designs), 1962


Box 12 Telephone


Box 12 Tennis Court Theatre Model


Box 12 Texts, Spanish Education


Box 12 Theatre Architecture, 20th Centruy



Box 13 Theatre Arts Division, School of the Arts (Columbia)


Box 13 Theatre Arts Library, 2 folders


Box 13 Theatre Arts Association Broadside


Box 13 TLA Membership List (3-68)


Box 13 Trinity Hall Theatre Model


Box 13 Toy Theatre


Box 13 United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT): Admin. Supp.


Box 13 United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT): Membership and Mailing


Box 13 University Lectures (notes for recordings)


Box 13 Urban Collection--Loan (folder in special collections office)


Box 13 Urban--Presentation of the collection (folder in special collections office)



Box 14 Video Tape, etc.


Box 14 Visitors Book, Library of Speech Recordings


Box 14 Visitors Book, Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum


Box 14 Vocarium (Harvard)


Box 14 Wells, Henry W.


Box 14 Wenger, John


Box 14 Wheeler, Roger (folder in special collections office)


Box 14 Wisely, Edward B.


Card File Boxes


Theatrical Portrait Card File, Actors, Actresses and Other Performers



Card File Box 1 A-Hayd



Card File Box 2 Haye-Z



Card File Box 3 Photographs and Prints Card File


Plays, A-Z (by title) Illustrating scenes from plays with individual performer


Group Scenes, A-Z (by performer)


Woodcuts, A-Z (by performer)


Les Actrices de Paris, A-Z (by actress), 1882



Card File Box 4 Card file of realia collection



Mapcase 15-E-4 Posters: England, Germany, Poland, Mexico, Russia, Scandinavia



Mapcase 15-E-5 Posters: Scandinavia, United States



Mapcase 15-E-6 Posters: Scandinavia, United States, Japan, England, Germany, Poland



Mapcase 14-F-10 Dramatic Museum Portraits: Kean as Brutus


Mapcase 14-F-10 Dramatic Museum Portraits: William Henry West Betty as Hamlet


Mapcase 14-F-10 Dramatic Museum Portraits: Urso, Camilla



Mapcase 13-E-9 Dramatic Museum Broadside: DRAMLIB D792.05 St8 The Stage, v.7:no.44 (1869:Sept. 25)

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1713387


Mapcase 13-E-9 Dramatic Museum Broadside: DRAMLIB D812.128 At41 The Atheneum, v.1:no.1 (1880)