Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 63 folders (ca. 500 items)

Subject

1. Brooklyn Museum
2. Federal Dance Project

Call number

1. (S) *MGZMD 8

Note

1. Holographs and typescripts.
2. Letters, notes, miscellaneous documents, lectures, articles, chapters for a proposed book, and poetry. The material dates primarily from 1936 to 1941, when Grant Code was working as an editor at the Brooklyn Museum and attempting to organize a dance program there. Many of the letters refer to his attempts to collaborate with the Federal Theater project of the WPA in setting up a workshop for young choreographers.
3. The collection is in seven groups: Correspondence (31 folders); dance activities at the Brooklyn Museum (5 folders); non- museum activities (3 folders); published articles and reviews (7 folders); lectures (7 folders); chapter drafts for a proposed book (6 folders); drafts, notes, and poetry (6 folders).

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Code, Grant Hyde.

Title

1. Grant Hyde Code papers, 1936-1941.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Manuscripts -- Collections.

Research call number

1. (S) *MGZMD 8