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Aldridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS4
Abstract The Aldridge Collection consists of materials relating to 19th century African-American tragedian Ira Frederick Aldridge (1807-1867) and his children, mainly his daughter Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge (known as Amanda Ira Aldridge, who composed under the pseudonym Montague Ring; 1866-1956). Included in the collection are correspondence, photographs and engravings, newspaper clippings, musical manuscripts and scores, personal and legal documents, articles, memorabilia, two portraits and...
Dates: 1806-2017; Majority of material found within 1846 - 1959
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Chicago Tribune. Frances Peck Grover (Mae Tinee) Papers

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Identifier: XI-203
Abstract

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Frances Peck Grover, whose career at the Chicago Tribune (1911-1945) was spent chiefly as movie critic (the first to write under the name "Mae Tinee"). This archive includes family correspondence and photographs, correspondence and pictures of movie stars of the 1920s, and scrapbooks of newspaper columns.

Dates: 1895 - 1944
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Hesketh Pearson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS129
Abstract

Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was a British actor, theatre director and writer. This collection of manuscripts consists of the holograph notebooks he kept for several of his biographies as well as some miscellaneous research notebooks.

Dates: 1940-1960s
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

David Shepherd (1924-2018) Papers

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Identifier: MS199
Abstract

The David Shepherd (1924-2018) Papers consists of 36 boxes and 24.1 gigabytes of born-digital files containing materials related to his work in improvisational theater.

Dates: 1934 - 2019
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

Konstantin Stanislavsky Correspondence

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Identifier: MS179
Abstract

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavskii (né Alexeev), one of the central figures in 20th Century theatre, was an actor, director, producer and theorist of acting. The archive is comprised of ~65 handwritten letters from Stanislavskii to Elizabeth Hapgood, 6 telegrams and 3 typed letters.

Dates: 1928 - 1936
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections

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Grover, Frances Peck, 1886-1961 1
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Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977 1
Kovačević, Mihailo, 1891-1961 1
Lindfors, Bernth 1
Mortimer, Owen 1
Pearson, Hesketh, 1887-1964 1
Ring, Montague 1
Scobie, Edward 1
Shepherd, David, 1924-2018 1
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