Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 box.

Summary

1. The collection consists of correspondence: letters and autographs from people prominent in the performing arts who responded to Myers letters and a pencil drawing of Myers' head.

Subject

1. Theater > Michigan > Detroit
2. Autographs

Genre/Form

1. Autographs.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 1998-017

Note

1. Myers also gave the Library his collection of scrapbooks of clippings documenting the Detroit stage in the early 1930s (MWEZ 1752, 1772-3, 1779-80) as well as many Detroit theater programs, most now bound, (MWEZ 16,196-203 and 16,577) and programs in German from festivals in Germany and Austria, 1937-1938 (MWEZ 1907).

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

1. Kurtz Myers

Biography (note)

1. Kurtz Myers was chief of the Music and Drama Department of the Detroit Public Library, 1954-1969. He began work there in 1936 and spent the summers of 1937 and 1939 working at the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Myers, Kurtz.

Title

1. Kurtz Myers papers, 1929-1937.

Restricted access

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

1. Kurtz Myers was chief of the Music and Drama Department of the Detroit Public Library, 1954-1969. He began work there in 1936 and spent the summers of 1937 and 1939 working at the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library.

Source

1. THE

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material

Research call number

1. *T-Mss 1998-017