Scope and Contents
The collection contains documents related to the Elliot Norton Award, the Cambridge Drama Festival, Boston theaters, and arts and entertainment in Boston.
Dates
- Creation: 1956-1990
Language of Materials
Collection material is in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
A portion of 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.
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
16 linear feet (14 boxes and 50 oversize folders)Biographical / Historical
William Morris Hunt II (Harvard college S.B. Class of 1936) is a theatrical producer (especially of the Cambridge Drama Festival) and historian. He was one of the founders of the Poets' Theater (Cambridge, Mass.)
Arrangement
Materials are loosely arranged by topic.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository and onsite
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift; received 2002 March.
Processing Information
Description converted to finding aid by Adrien Hilton, 2018. Oversized materials processed by Betts Coup, 2019.
- Title
- Hunt, William Morris, 1912-2003. William Morris Hunt papers, 1956-1990 (MS Thr 408): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- January 19, 2018
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02879
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.
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