Overview
Scenery and costume designs, photographs, compositions and correspondence by American theatrical designer Robert Edmond Jones.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1958 and undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
7 linear feet (circa 150 drawings and photographs and 5 boxes)Collection includes scenery and costume designs for various productions, sketches and poster designs, essays and notes on principals of theatrical design, letters, photographs of sets and productions, awards and certificates. Collection was previously processed in four different finding aids as MS Thr 201, MS Thr 201.4 MS Thr 201.7, and MS Thr 202.12 and several single item records. The present finding aid brings all the material together. Accession numbers recorded for each individual item, or folder.
Biographical / Historical
Jones graduated from Harvard in 1910 and was an American theatrical and motion-picture designer.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series: I. Drawings II. Compositions and notes III. Correspondence IV. Other material
Custodial History
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Johnson, 1967-1975, and other donors
Immediate Source of Acquisition
67M-97. Gift of Miss Elizabthe Jones; received: 1968 January 4. 74M-45. Gift of Miss Elizabeth Jones; received: 1974 Novemebr 15. 74M-54. Gift of Miss Elizabeth Jones; received: 1975 January 17. Various other sources
Processing Information
Processed at various times by a number of archivists.
- Title
- Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887-1954. Robert Edmond Jones papers, 1911-1954 (MS Thr 201): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- January 2018
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01304
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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