Overview
Scrapbooks kept by director and actress Silvia Brito.
Dates
- Creation: 1970-1972
Creator
- Brito, Silvia (Former owner, Person)
Condition Description
One scrapbook lacked its back cover, and its front cover was detached. Covers from both scrapbooks discarded. Material that was loose in the scrapbooks has been removed to folders.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
.3 linear feet (1 box)Collection consists of two scrapbooks, both containing clippings, programs, and photographs. One album chiefly documents the play "Requiem for Yarini" by Carlos Felipe staged by Brito's acting group, Dume Group Estudio, and in which Brito starred. The other album documents the play "Los Verdugos" by Fernando Arrabal. Material found loose in the scrapbooks, photographs and bark paintings, has been placed in separate folders.
Biographical / Historical
Silvia Brito (1933-2021) was an actress and director born in Cuba and relocated to New York City in 1961. She founded the Thalia Spanish Theatre in 1977 in Queens (New York, N.Y.) "...to serve Queens' diverse Hispanic population when the cultural landscape did not include anything for them". She retired from Thalia in 1999. (Source: dealer's description)
Arrangement
Arranged as received.
Custodial History
Ownership prior to this acquisition is unknown.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2022MT-77. Purchased from House of Mirth Photos with the Beatrice, Benjamin and Richard Bader Fund in Visual Arts of Theatre, 2022 March 22.
Processing Information
This collection was processed to a basic level with minimal rehousing, organization, and preservation. (Melanie Wisner, 2022)
Creator
- Brito, Silvia (Former owner, Person)
- House of Mirth Photos (Seller, Organization)
Subject
- Dumé Grupo Estudio (Organization)
- Title
- Brito, Silvia. Silvia Brito scrapbooks, 1970-1972 (MS Thr 2191): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Date
- 2022 April 21
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03463
Repository Details
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