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<titleproper encodinganalog="245$a">Guide to the Louis Kaufman Anspacher collection of papers,<unitdate>1912-1924</unitdate></titleproper>
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<num>Berg Coll MSS Anspacher</num><titleproper encodinganalog="245$a">Guide to the Louis Kaufman Anspacher collection of papers,<date>1912-1924</date></titleproper>

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<head>Descriptive Summary</head>
<unittitle label="Title" encodinganalog="245$a">Louis Kaufman Anspacher collection of papers, <unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1912-1924</unitdate></unittitle>
<origination label="Creator" encodinganalog="100"><persname>Anspacher, Louis Kaufman, 1878-1947.</persname></origination>

<unitid label="Call Number" encodinganalog="050, 090, 099">Berg Coll MSS Anspacher</unitid><physdesc label="Size"><extent unit="linear feet" encodinganalog="300">19 items</extent>


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         <head>Subjects</head>
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            <head>Personal Names</head>
            <persname encodinganalog="100, 600, 700">Kidder, Kathryn. </persname>
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            <head>Organizations</head>
         <corpname encodinganalog="110, 111, 610, 611, 710, 711">American Play Company, former owner. </corpname>
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<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from the American Play Company.</p></acqinfo>


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<head>Access</head>
<p>Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316 
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<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>
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<head>Biography</head>
<p>Louis Kaufman Anspacher was an American playwright and director.</p>
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<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of typescripts and legal documents. The typescripts include plays and drafts of plays by the author, as well as a play co-written with Kathryn Kidder.</p>
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<c01 level="series"><did><unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Legal Documents</unittitle></did>

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Manuscript box (Anspacher)
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Agreements, correspondents, forms, statements from various theatrical agencies concerning Louis Kaufman Anspacher
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</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
legal docs.
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10 folders
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From the files of the American Play Co.
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<c01 level="series"><did><unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Typescripts</unittitle></did>


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Oversize (+) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 329
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Dagmar; founded on a play by Ferencz Herczeg. Typescript (carbon)
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
117 p.
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American Play Co.
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Oversize (+) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 304
</container><unittitle>
Inside the ring; a play in three acts. Typescript (carbon)
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
116 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
American Play Co.
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Oversize (+) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 254
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Kingdom of content, The; a romantic comedy in four acts. Typescript (carbon) with ms. corrections in an unknown hand
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts (emended)
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
136 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
From the American Play Co.
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Oversize (+)
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[Madam Cecile; a play in three acts] Typescript (carbon) with ms. corrections in an unidentified hand
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts (emended)
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
186 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
From the files of the American Play Co., no. 264
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Oversize (+) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 356
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New house, The; a play in three acts. Typescript with ms. corrections in an unidentified hand
<unitdate type="inclusive">
1924
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts (emended)
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
140 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
American Play Co.
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Oversize (+)
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Our children or Daddalums; a play in three acts. Typescript (carbon)
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
173 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
From the files of the American Play Co., no. 295
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Oversize (+) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 380
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That day; a play in three acts. Typescript with ms. corrections in an unidentified hand
<unitdate type="inclusive">
1917
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts (emended)
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
119 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
Signed (?). 
American Play Co.
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Oversize (+)
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Washerwoman duchess, The; a comedy in one act. Typescript (carbon). Cover-title in an unidentified hand
<unitdate type="inclusive">
1912
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
17 p.
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From the files of the American Play Co., no. 380
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Oversize (+)(Anspacher) Fastened in linen cover of the American Play Co., no. 252
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Kidder, Kathryn and L. K. Anspacher. Address unknown or Sylvia Bannister (provisional titles); a play. Typescript (carbon)
<unitdate type="inclusive">
n.d.
</unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>
typescripts
</physdesc><physdesc><extent>
117 p.
</extent></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>
American Play Co.
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