Theatre & performing arts collections
By: Louis A. Rachow, guest editor
Series: Special collections -- v. 1, no. 1; Special collections -- v. 1, no. 1.
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781136565434; 9780203056974; 9781136565502; 9781136565366
Subjects: Performing arts; Library resources; Arts du spectacle; Fonds documentaires; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; FICTION / Gay; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
Description: Here is an exciting book that provides detailed descriptions of dozens of the most important and unique collections of "theatricana" in the United States and Canada. In Theatre and Performing Arts Collections, distinguished theatre specialists, librarians, and curators describe the unique possessions of the best and largest collections in theatre and performing arts. Each chapter provides detailed descriptions of the collections, as well as important notes about their history--information that is not available in any other source!
Notes: Originally published in print: New York : Haworth Press, 1981.
Table of contents: title: Historical introduction and the state of the art / Louis A. Rachow; title: Theatre materials in the Library of Congress / Walter Zvonchenko; title: The New York Public Library: the Billy Rose Theatre Collection / Paul Myers; title: The Players, New York / Louis A. Rachow; title: The William Seymour Theatre Collection, Princeton University Library / Mary Ann Jensen; title: The Hoblitzelle Theatre Arts Library, University of Texas at Austin / William H. Crain; title: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research / Tino Balio; title: The Theatre Department of the Metropolitan Toronto Library / Heather McCallum; title: Bibliographic control / Louis A. Rachow; title: The Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine / Franklyn Lenthall; title: Booksellers and the performing arts / James Ellis.