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Charabanc Theatre Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1060
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Charabanc Theatre Company, active from 1983-1995.The Charabanc Theatre was founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland by five actresses: Eleanor Methven, Marie Jones, Carol Scanlan (Moore), Brenda Winter, and Maureen McAuley. The company was a significant presence in Irsh theatre, and used improvisational script development in innovative ways to bring its plays to the community, as well as carrying out extensive reseaerch, interviewing community...
Dates:
1983-2000, undated
Cristina Peri Rossi Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0080
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials forming a record of Cristina Peri Rossi's personal and professional career. Included are drafts of Peri Rossi's fiction and poetry, primarily unpublished; manuscripts and notebooks of Peri Rossi's writings; and clippings of her nonfiction wors from newspapers and magazines. There is also professional and personal correspondence, personal photographs, and academic works on Peri Rossi's writings, such as theses and dissertations. The collection also...
Dates:
1940-2014
Harlem Globetrotters Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents
This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates:
1941-1976
Irish Theatre Program Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5032
Scope and Contents
This artificial collection consists of theatre programs, totaling approximately 600 items, created by theatres and theatre companies throughout Ireland. Materials include programs, black-and-white photographs, and pamphlets.
Dates:
1899, 1904-2000, 2015, undated
Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS/PFEFER
Scope and Contents
The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1924-1969; 1913-1974, 1999-2000, 2018
J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1030
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...
Dates:
1903 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1948
John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10064
Scope and Contents
The John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection comprises 27 boxes of materials containing professional files for John Bracey. Materials include but are not limited to professional papers, drafts, correspondence, publications, bulletins, reports, lecture notes, financial records, and administrative files. Additionally, Bracey collected ephemera and kept subject files on various topics throughout his career. Significant topics include Jesse Jackson’s Presidential campaign, the Caribbean, Malcolm X,...
Dates:
1816-2022
Lenore Mooney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0500
Abstract
The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.
Dates:
1887-1938; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1919)
Mae Faggs Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10115
Scope and Contents
The Mae Faggs ephemera collection consists of printed materials and ephemeral items collected by African American women’s track and field athlete Mae Faggs in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection contains items related to her college career at Tennessee A&I University, an Historically Black College and University; items documenting her participation in track events as a member of the United States national team, including the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, the 1955 Pan American Games in...
Dates:
1952-1965
Mary Martín Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0103
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal papers of Mary Martín, a Spanish artist. Materials include loose sketches and sketchbooks of Martín, as well as newspaper clippings on her exhibitions, photographs, some prints, and notes. The majority of the materials are undated. Significant topics include women artists, Spanish artists, Mexican art, and sketching.
Dates:
1949-1955, 1975-1983, undated
Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP10029
Scope and Contents
The Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers comprises nine boxes and one oversize box of materials collected by Tony Santos and his family relating to professional wrestling primarily from the 1950-1960s. The collection contains materials relating but not limited to subject files, correspondence, posters and promotional materials, magazines, financial information, and printing plates. Subject files primarily contain photographs and embossed mat boards used for printing and creating...
Dates:
1944-1977
William S. Patten Journal and Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10024
Content Description
The main item in this collection is an oversized personal journal and scrapbook maintained from 1907-1915 by William S. Patten, an officer in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Many pages include dated journal or diary-type entries describing activties of the day often supplemented with images or ephemera. This note highlights some of the significant content in the scrapbook, but it is not a comprehensive inventory of subjects covered.Although there are some photographs of his...
Dates:
1907-1915