Hallie Flanagan papers
- Title
- Hallie Flanagan papers, 1923-1963.
- Author
- Format
- Archival mix
Collection information
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| Status | Container | Access | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | ContainerBoxes 41-42 (Federal Theatre Project scrapbooks, Jan-June 1938) | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-652 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | ContainerBoxes 43-44 (Federal Theatre Project scrapbooks, 1936-1939) | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-652 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 7 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 4 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 5 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 46 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 45 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 40 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 39 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 38 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 37 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 36 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 35 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 34 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 33 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 31 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 30 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 27 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 26 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre. | ContainerBox 25 | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1964-002 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional authors
- Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984
- Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
- Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946
- Hughes, Gareth, 1894-1965
- Lavery, Emmet, 1902-
- Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
- Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980
- Davis, Philip
- Vassar College
- Smith College
- Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
- Description
- 17 lin. ft. (46 boxes).
- Summary
- The Hallie Flanagan papers span the years 1923-1963 and reflect many aspects of her career: teaching and directing, writing and speech-giving, and her leadership of the Federal Theatre Project. Correspondence makes up a large part of the collection and has been arranged in three series: general correspondence, Federal Theatre prject, and Vassar/Smith correspondence. Other correspondence can be found in the files on the closing of the Federal Theatre Project. The strength of the collection lies in the materials on the Federal Theatre Project and her college theater materials. The files on the Federal Theatre touch on almost every aspect of the project from beginning to end through memos, reports, production files, correspondence, speeches, articles, scripts and scrapbooks. The Vassar and Smith materials consist of notes used for her classes, articles and speeches, production files, photographs, clippings and correspondence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Scripts.
- Speeches.
- Scrapbooks.
- Call number
- *T-Mss 1964-002
- Language
- English
- Note
- This collection has been reprocessed and the arrangement found in the microfilmed copy of this collection is no longer the same as in the original papers.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Additional formats (note)
- are only available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Hallie Flanagan
- Biography (note)
- Hallie Flanagan was the national director of the Federal Theatre Project; taught and directed at Grinnell and Smith College and founded the Vassar Experimental Theatre. She was born in 1890 (some sources say 1889) in Redfield, South Dakota and grew up in Grinnell, Iowa where she attended Grinnell College. She studied with George Pierce Baker at Harvard's 47 Workshop. She returned to Grinnell where she initiated her idea for an experimental theater. The following year she accepted a job at Vassar College. In 1926 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study theater in Europe, the first woman to receive this honor. She traveled extensively and met with John Galsworthy, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Karel Capek, Edward Gordon Craig, and Lady Gregory among others. From 1927 to 1935 she taught and directed at Vassar where she established the Vassar Experimental Theatre.
- In 1935 Hallie Flanagan was appointed national director of the Federal Theatre Project, an offshoot of the Works Progress Administration. Flanagan envisioned the project not only as a source of employment for American artists but as a way to bring theater to people across the country, many of whom had never seen a play. The project lasted for four years and was ultimately abolished by Congress. Hallie Flanagan returned to Vassar where, with the aid of a Rockefeller grant, she organized the Federal Theatre records and wrote ARENA, the story of the Federal Theatre Project.
- In 1942 she took a leave of absence from Vassar and became the head of the theater department of Smith College. She remained at Smith until her retirement in 1952.
- Besides ARENA, Flanagan was the author of numerous articles and two other books: SHIFTING SCENES OF THE MODERN EUROPEAN THEATRE, based on her 1926-1927 travels, and DYNAMO, a chronicle of her work at Vassar. She was also a playwright. Hallie Flanagan died on July 23, 1969.
- Indexes/finding aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Processing action (note)
- Reprocessed
- Local note
- Some materials in this collection previously cataloged as MWEZ+ n.c. 20293; 20305;-20325; 20371-20380; 20396; 20411-20412; 20587; 20891; 21117-21120; 21128; 21141-21142; 21666; 26028; 26421-26423.
- Additional formats
- Federal Theatre Project scrapbooks 41-44 are only available on microfilm; The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; service copy number: *ZC-652 reel 1=scrapbook 41-42; reel 2=scrapbook 43-44.
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