Skip to main content
COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 954

Ralph McGoun toy theater collection

Overview

Scripts, characters and scenery for toy theaters. Also includes some props, sets, and assembled Danish toy theaters.

Dates

  • Creation: 1946-1949 and undated

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English and Danish.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

1 linear feet (2 boxes)

Collection includes printed colored toy theater scenery, characters, top borders, and play scripts. Companies are Pollock's Toy Theater and Green's.

Also includes miscellaneous props, brackets, sets, a photograph, 2 scripts, and 2 assembled Danish toy theaters for: open air Chinese Pantomime Theatre in Tivoli Amusement Park in Copenhagen, and Alfred Jacobsen's reproduction of the Theatre Royal in Copenhagen, with motto: Ei Blot Til Lyst.

Biographical / Historical

Ralph McGoun (1905-1988) received an AB with the Class of 1927 Amherst College.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title. Some larger items boxed at end of finding aid.

Physical Location

b, pf

Immediate Source of Acquisition

No accession number; Gift of Ralph McGoun; received: 1986.

Processing Information

Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt

Title
McGoun, Ralph, collector. Ralph McGoun toy theater collection, 1946-1949: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou02423

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

Contact:
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440