Robert Fletcher papers

Series I includes costume and set designs, as well as accompanying notes, correspondence, programs, and ephemera, as single designs, bound in notebooks, and collected into scrapbooks. The designs are in multiple stages, from sketches and roughs to blueprints, photostats, lists and pricings, and drawings. These materials are often oversize, and have remained onsite, donated as part of multiple accessions dating from approximately 1967 to 2015, due to the size and storage requirements. A few of the many stage, television, and film productions included are La Belle Helene, Perry Como Show, A Family Affair, Hadrian VII, Happiest Girl in the World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gypsy, High Spirits, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Little Me, Macbeth, Manon, Dean Martin Show, Oedipus, Othello, Play of Daniel, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Star Trek, The Tempest, Thing Fish, Troilus and Cressida, and many more. Additionally includes architectural drawings.

Series II includes all remaining materials in accession 2004MT-81, which includes gifts from 1967-2004. These materials include costume and scene designs and sketches, related correspondence, scripts, programs, photographs, and clippings related to productions such as Forum, High Spirits, Miss Saigon, NBC 50th Anniversary Show, Servant of Two Masters, and Star Trek, among others. Further materials relate to Fletcher's membership in the United Scenic Artists and union issues, as well as further designs for the St. Louis Municipal Theatre.

Series III includes the remaining materials from accession 2006MT-37r, which was also made up of multiple gifts from the 1960s through 2005. This series contains costume and set designs, notebooks and papers, printed materials, correspondence, photographs, scripts, and production files related to television and stage productions. Additionally includes architectural drawings, as well as proposals and plans for theatre construction for the Portland Civil Theatre and additional United Scenic Artists and union-related papers. Some of the productions included are Antigone, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, La Belle Helene, Much Ado About Nothing, Pajama Game, High School Musical, Rome, and Tosca, among many more. This series further contains video and reel-to-reel tapes of productions, as well as collected historical travel and theatre scrapbooks and an autograph book kept by Hattie Blatt around the turn of the twentieth century.

Series IV (accession 2011MT-7) contains materials relating to Buddha, including notes, correspondence, and scripts, as well as costume sketches for Titanic, produced at the St. Louis Municipal Theatre. Additional materials include DVDS of performances by Don Liberto and Fletcher's father, Leon Ames, in performances, as well as correspondence and printed newletters and publications.

Series V (accession 2012MT-48) contains photocopies of Mohenjo-daro costume designs, as well as materials relating to The Company We Ketp. Further materials include a script by April Ferry, biographical lists and essays, costume sketches and a sketchbook, printed books, and photographs. Additionally contains correspondence related to the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library.

Series VI (accession 2015MT-1) contains volumes 1-7 of Dance Index, costume research materials, correspondence, and materials relating to the Ballets et Galas Russes and Oh Che Bella Guerra.

Series VII is from an unnumbered and undated accession, and contains Fletcher's personal collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century costume designs. All of these designs are quite small. Many are not identified by designer or production, but there are designs for many types of gowns, Italian Renaissance-era costumes, dance costumes, and more, possibly for tableaus as well as theatrical productions. Some productions include Cinderella, Robin Hood, Boodlesiteim, among others. Designers such as Basil Crage, W. Clarkson, Signor Albertieri, Adam Brunek, and Herbert Norris are included, as well as some others, but most of the designs are not signed or stamped.

Series VIII is from an unnumbered accession in 1972, and contains records from approximately 1960-1972, primarily records relating to his time working on the Dean Martin Show, working with the American Conservatory Theater, as well as a group of assorted scripts, mainly for theatrical productions but some film and television.

Series IX is made up entirely of Fletcher's published 2015 memoir about his life and work as a designer, A Trunk Full of Yak Hair Or how the Klingons Got Their Look, from 2015. This was likely part of accession 2015MT-1.