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American Play Company.
Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
The collection is almost entirely contracts between authors and producers for stage, film, and even radio and television dramatizations. It also includes a small amount of correspondence, financial accounts, and the company bylaws and articles of incorporation from 1908.
The American Play Company was a business organization thathandled the licensing of plays. Prior to 1914 it was involved in production and purchase, but after that time it dealt exclusively in representing dramatists.
July. NYPL Art and Architecture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
