Re-discovering the Stars: processing the Museum of the City of New York's Collection on Theatrical Personalities.
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Title
Re-discovering the Stars: processing the Museum of the City of New York's Collection on Theatrical Personalities.
Description
The Museum of the City of New York will organize and describe its Collection on theatrical personalities, which includes correspondence, photographs, ephemera, annotated scripts, notes, contracts, scrapbooks, and memorabilia related to persons who worked professionally on and around the New York stage, including actors, playwrights, directors, critics, stage managers, lyricists, composers, and producers. The collection was assembled by Museum curators and staff over several decades, but it has never been comprehensively cataloged. This two-year project will result in an online finding aid and object-level cataloging of 1,000 collection highlights.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
1830 - 1830
Spatial Coverage
Objects are primarily from New York City and the United States, but a small percentage may originate from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.
Extent
500 Artifact (Including Archaeological Objects, Weapons, Machinery, Instruments, Costumes, Textiles, Ceramics, Glass, Furniture, Etc.), Book (Including Serials), Ephemera, Image, Manuscript, Musical Scores, Text (Including Electronic Texts)
Institution
Applicant Unit
Identifier
Primary Contact
Ms. Lacy Schutz
Request
168000