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American Shakespeare Center Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0371
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 65 Shakespeare plays, additional plays by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Molière; 12 Beta videotapes and audiocassettes; 26 cast scrapbooks with photographs; correspondence between Ralph Cohen and James Warren, founders of American Shakespeare Center, Hank Dobin, Washington and Lee University Dean (2005-2012), and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Shakespeare Center.
Dates:
Inclusive 1987- ongoing; Majority of material found within Bulk 1987-1995
Copy of a Photograph of a Theater Backdrop Painted by Cy Twombly
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0098
Scope and Contents
This is a copy of a photograph of a theater backdrop that was painted by Cy Twombly in Lexington, Virginia. The location and name of the theater production is unknown.
Dates:
Date of original photograph
; Date of photographic copy unknown
Dick Sessoms Theatrical Publication Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0412
Scope and Contents
This collection contains playbills, issues of The Dramatist, and other theatrical and ballet ephemera.
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Friends and relations of Gilbert and Sullivan (FROGS) collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0188
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and approximately 50 humorous photos from five plays(Iolanthe, H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Mikado, and Patience) put on by FROGS. It also includes programs as well as script and casting information used by the individuals putting on the plays.
Dates:
Inclusive 1964-1968
Polly and Charles Turner Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0381
Dates:
Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Thomas Connors Collection
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0299
Scope and Contents
Contains 19th and early 20th century British and American theater memorabilia, including autographs of major actors, writers, and managers; and letters, broadsides, and photographs.
Dates:
Inclusive 1805-1923
William Webb Pusey Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0182
Scope and Contents
This collection includes miscellaneous articles on a variety of literary topics. It also includes approximately 25 items from Pusey's wartime duty in Germany in 1945, including eight photographs of Admiral Dönitz's surrender. Additionally, there is a typescript by Pusey entitled Theater in Staunton, Va, 1875-1912.Also contains a signed typescript of his book History of the theater in Staunton, Virginia, known as Grange Hall, the Opera House (1879) and the Beverly Theatre...
Dates:
Inclusive 1925-1992; Majority of material found within Bulk 1925-1962
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- Coffey, David 1
- Cohen, Ralph Alan 1
- Connors, Thomas 1
- Dobin, Howard N. 1
- Dönitz, Karl 1
- Friends and relations of Gilbert and Sullivan (FROGS) 1
- John, Annette 1
- Molière 1
- Pusey, William W., III (William Webb) 1
- Ray, George Washington, III 1
- Sessoms, Richard B. 1
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Washington and Lee Special Collections and Archives
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Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
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