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College of William and Mary. Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance

 Organization

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

University Archives Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 58
Scope and Contents The University Archives Audiovisual Collection is an artificial collection of various audio and visual formats documenting the College of William and Mary campus, events, people, etc. The collection contains analog, magnetic, and digital media and while not comprehensive, it does include material from a variety of time periods and types of events including commencements, Charter Day, building dedications, lecture series, Raft Debates, visiting scholars and distinguished guests, athletic...
Dates: 1930-2015; Majority of material found in 1985-2005

University Archives Bound Volumes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 15
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information about the College of William and Mary from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Included in the collection are faculty lecture notes from a variety of classes, scrapbooks, research notes, correspondence, textbooks used at the College of William and Mary, minute and account books, poetry books, student notebooks, a literary manual, and various other miscellaneous bound volumes.

Dates: 1739-1993

Ann Buckles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.035
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of Ann Buckles, College of William and Mary class of 1951, and includes materials from her time at William and Mary, her subsequent career on Broadway and in television and film, and her tenure at Harper's Bazaar. There are photographs, video recordings, clippings, correspondence, and materials regarding Benjamin Bray, Glenn Close, and members of the Department of Theatre and Speech. There is also some material from Buckles' later activities...
Dates: 1950-2008

Joan Worstell Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.025
Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of two scrapbooks; a collection of costume designs for plays; two volumes of costume drawings done for a costume history class; and one volume (marked volume III) containing pictures of paintings done for an art history class. The scrapbooks include news clippings, photographs, programs and related material from various College of William and Mary events and organizations including Department of Theater productions and the Canterbury Association.

Dates: 1941-1945

Department of Fine Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 206
Scope and Contents

The records of the Department of Fine Arts at William & Mary includes office files, publications and photographs. Office files primarily from the years Professor Thomas Thorne was chair during the mid-20th century, a modern painting notebook, and publications including fliers, exhibit catalogs, newsletters, and other material.

Dates: Circa 1930-1998

Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 59
Scope and Contents

The records of the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance at the College of William and Mary holds material from the early 20th century to the present. The collection includes departmental administrative records, programs, scripts and playbooks, photographs, posters, as well as material from the Virginia Shakespeare Festival and the Grassroots Theatre Oral History Project.

Dates: 1920-ongoing

Thomas Marshall Forsyth, Jr. Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.052
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two large scrapbooks. One is an official scrapbook from the 1939 New York World's Fair, featuring the Trylon and Perisphere on the cover. It contains theater programs, photographs,notes, art programs, and clippings from newspapers and magazines. The other book has a treasure chest on the cover and contains newspaper clippings about radio and transcripts of radio broadcasts.

Dates: 1933-1940

Alice Gates Goodman Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.142
Scope and Contents

Contains the scrapbook of Alice Gates Goodman while she was a student at the College of William and Mary from 1936 to 1939. Included in the scrapbook are photographs of sororities, clippings about events at the College, correspondence, programs from football games and William and Mary Theatre productions, and ephemera such as flowers and dance cards.

Dates: 1936-1939

Albert Haak Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: 00/06/UA 6.072
Scope and Contents

A scrapbook kept by Albert Haak, William and Mary Theatre technical director from 1947 through 1977.

Dates: circa 1947-1977

Althea Hunt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.028
Scope and Contents Papers of Althea Hunt, faculty member at the College of William and Mary in the English and Fine Arts departments and director of the William and Mary Theatre from 1926-61, including news clippings, articles by and about Miss Hunt, programs from productions, photographs, correspondence (mostly by students to Miss Hunt), galley proofs, computer lists, and preliminary materials relating to the publication of the William and Mary Theatre: A Chronicle, edited by...
Dates: 1926-1961 and undated

Gladys Monroe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5.084
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, news clippings, photographs, and programs from Gladys Monroe's years as a student at the College of William and Mary. Included in the collection is a speech given by Monroe about Grace Warren Landrum, former Dean of Women, at the dedication of Landrum Hall in 1959; programs from the William and Mary Dramatic Club from 1931 to 1933; photographs of Monroe, including a few with fellow theatre student Howard Scammon; news clippings about Ms. Monroe; and a...
Dates: 1929-1959; Majority of material found in 1930-1933

Howard Scammon Drama Prize Winners Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 52
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of plays that won the Howard Scammon Drama Prize. It includes autographed copies of Rebecca Edwards', Bryan Tunnell's,  Andrew Emery's plays.

Winners:

1981: Margaret Stephens-North

1982: George F. Jack, Jr.

1983: Robert Bruce Sherman

1983 honorable mention: Gary L. Cowling

1986: Andrew C. Emery

1987: Bryan Paul Tunnell

1988: Rebecca Brooks Edwards

Dates: 1981-1988

Howard Scammon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1992.38 and additions
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, playbooks and other material collected by William and Mary Theatre professor Howard Scammon. The bulk of the material is correspondence between Scammon and his former students, but the papers also include documentation related to the William and Mary Theatre, The Common Glory, the Jamestown Festival of 1957, other Williamsburg theatre groups and famous William and Mary alumni such as Glenn Close and Linda Lavin. ...
Dates: 1917-1994; Majority of material found in 1940-1970

Self Study Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 53
Scope and Contents Acc. 1983.046 contains guidelines for specific schools about how to conduct a self study; reports of departmental self studies; correspondence about the 1974 self study.  Begins with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Manual for Self Study, then is arranged alphabetically by department/school and spans the years 1972-1974. A PDF inventory of Acc. 1983.046 is available online at ...
Dates: 1972-1984

Roger Sherman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 6.073
Scope and Contents

This collection contains magazine pictures used by Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance professor Roger Sherman to inspire his stage designs for productions at William & Mary Theatre.  Topics that are present in the pictures include various geographic areas and their people, paintings, elements such as water and fire, and fashion from different time periods and locations.

Dates: 1948-1977

Theta Alpha Phi Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 7.031
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a scrapbook from 1966-1967 and the President's notebook from 1967-1969.

Dates: 1966-1969

University Communications Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, publications, newsletters, reports, and other material pertaining to the Office of University Communications at the College of William and Mary. The bulk of the records consist of press releases and newspaper clippings related to faculty, staff, students, and alumni at the College from the 1940s to the 1980s. Please see the Finding Aid/Box List section below to learn more about each series.

Dates: 1938-2005; Majority of material found in 1969-1983

William and Mary Theatre Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 67
Scope and Contents Acc. 1979.007. William and Mary Theatre Records, circa 1975-1979. This series contains photographs and programs that were used by Howard Scammon in his book The William and Mary Theatre: 50 Years; layout sheets for the final copy and cover; correspondence; pre-publication material about fundraising; photocopy of a typed draft of the book. Acc. 1979.008.  William and Mary Theatre Records, 1926-1977. This series contains photographs, programs, and other materials from plays produced...
Dates: 1896-2013 and undated

Additional filters:

Subject
Photographs 9
Correspondence 8
Programs 6
Scrapbooks 6
College of William and Mary--Students 5
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Plays (document genre) 4
Reports 4
Student Plays 4
Class materials 3
College theater--United States--History 3
Typescripts 3
Athletics 2
Buildings and Grounds--Landrum Hall 2
Charter Day 2
Clippings (information artifacts) 2
College and school drama 2
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 2
Fliers (printed matter) 2
Minutes 2
Newsletters 2
Notebooks 2
Scripts (documents) 2
Self Study--1974 2
Sound Recordings 2
Student Life--1930's 2
Theater 2
Video recordings 2
Visitors to Campus--Queen Elizabeth II (1957) 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
American poetry--19th century 1
Athletics--Football 1
Awards and Scholarships--Scammon, Howard, Drama Prize 1
Birthday cards 1
Buildings and Grounds--Adair Gym 1
Buildings and Grounds--Lake Matoaka Ampitheatre 1
Buildings and Grounds--Lake Matoaka and Matoaka Woods 1
Buildings and Grounds--Phi Beta Kappa Hall (1957) 1
Buildings and Grounds--Swem Library 1
Burgesses Day 1
Christmas cards 1
College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff 1
College of William and Mary--History--18th century 1
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 1
College sports--United States--History--20th century 1
College theater--United States 1
Curriculum 1
DVDs 1
Design drawings 1
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 1
Fort Eustis (Va.)--History 1
Graduation (School) 1
Greeting cards 1
Jamestown 350th Anniversary 1
Jamestown Festival (1957) 1
Lecture notes 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Little theater movement--United States 1
Manuscripts (document genre) 1
Motion pictures (visual work) 1
Natural and Experimental Philosophy 1
Negatives 1
Pamphlets 1
President's House (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Press releases 1
Publications 1
Radio stations--Virginia 1
Self Study--1984 1
Set designers 1
Slides (photographs) 1
Student Government 1
Student Life--1940's 1
Summer sessions 1
Textbooks 1
Transcripts 1
Visitors to Campus--Charles, Prince of Wales (1981) 1
Visitors to Campus--Ford, Gerald R. (1976) 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--Drama 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Photographs 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--Social life and customs 1
Women college students 1
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