Overview
Printed material, photographs, clippings, and correspondence of Harvard Dramatic Club
Dates
- Creation: 1934-1938
Creator
- Harvard University. Dramatic Club (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.15 linear feet (1 box)Printed material, photographs, clippings, and correspondence, particularly of Howard R. Patch (Harvard College '38 and member and president of the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1938). Includes discussion of plans for a Harvard Theatre Foundation as well as the Club's request for support to build a theater and theater department at Harvard.
Biographical / Historical
Harvard Dramatic Club was founded in 1908. Unlike many other university dramatic clubs, it was established to produce not the well-known plays, but the original work of Harvard students and recent graduates. Today it is a student organization called Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club.
Arrangement
Materials arranged as received.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2013MT-19. Purchased with the Frank E. Chase Bequest in 2013 Novemebr 14.
Processing Information
Finding aid created using existing inventory, Irina Klyagin, 2020
Box is labeled with accession number 2013MT-19.
Creator
- Harvard University. Dramatic Club (Organization)
Subject
- Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (Organization)
- Title
- Harvard University. Dramatic Club. Harvard Dramatic Club records, 1934-1938 (MS Thr 2059): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- 2020 April 13
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou03334
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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