Minnie Maddern Fiske and Harrison Grey Fiske papers
Contributors: Fiske, Harrison Grey, 1861-1942
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18000
Subjects: Correspondence; Theater management; Theater; Finance; Animal welfare; Acting; Actors' Equity Association; Labor unions; Production and direction; Strikes and lockouts; Vivisection; Dramatic criticism
Description: Correspondence, play scripts, prompt books, playbills, box office receipts and invoices, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, broadsides, illustrations, drawings, certificates, set design drawings and blue prints, and drafts of plays, speeches, and articles written by Minnie Maddern Fiske and her husband, Harrison Grey Fiske, documenting her theatrical career and life and his work as theater critic and manager, playwright, director, and producer of plays for the American stage.  Includes material relating to the continuing controversy between the Fiskes and the theatrical trusts of the period, the 1919 strike by the Actor's Equity Association, animal welfare, and the anti-vivisectionist movement.  Correspondents include Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, J.M. Barrie, David Belasco, Daniel Chester French, Jack London, John Philip Sousa, Alexander Woollcott, and Flo Ziegfeld.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Olive Kooken, 1961.

Purchase, 1970.

Transfer, Smithsonian Institution, 1970.

transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress; and her husband, Harrison Grey Fiske, theater manager.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.