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Additional authors

1. Appell, Don.
2. Herman, Jerry, 1931-2019.

Description

1. .88 linear foot (3 boxes)

Summary

1. Gerard Oestreicher was a real-estate developer, investor, theatre owner and theatre producer in New York City. This collection documents Gerard Oestreicher's career as a theatre producer through scripts, press clippings, programs, a stage design blueprint, correspondence, telegrams, scrapbooks, posters, as well as theatre and box office records.

Subject

1. Scrapbooks
2. Scores
3. George Gershwin Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
4. Photographs
5. Scripts
6. Programs

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.
2. Programs.
3. Scores.
4. Scrapbooks.
5. Scripts.

Call number

1. JPB 11-19

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice maybe required. The five posters in the collection are restricted. Inquiries regarding audio materials in the collection may be directed to the Music Division (musicdiv@nypl.org). Audio materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.

Terms of use (note)

1. For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library.

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Music Division, The New York Public Library.
2. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Provenance (note)

1. These materials arrived as part of a larger collection of combined materials belonging to Gerard Oestreicher and Harry Ruby. Although the two men were related through Oestreicher's marriage to Ruby's daughter, the consolidated material has been divided into two collections. Oestreicher and Ruby never collaborated professionally and had no documentation suggesting a personal relationship.

Author

1. Oestreicher, Gerry, 1916-1987.

Title

1. Gerry Oestreicher papers, 1929-1989 (bulk 1961-1969).

Restricted access

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice maybe required. The five posters in the collection are restricted. Inquiries regarding audio materials in the collection may be directed to the Music Division (musicdiv@nypl.org). Audio materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.

Terms of use

1. For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, The New York Public Library.

Location of other archival materials

1. Harry Ruby papers; Music Division, The New York Public Library.
2. Stanley M. Isaacs papers; Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Provenance

1. These materials arrived as part of a larger collection of combined materials belonging to Gerard Oestreicher and Harry Ruby. Although the two men were related through Oestreicher's marriage to Ruby's daughter, the consolidated material has been divided into two collections. Oestreicher and Ruby never collaborated professionally and had no documentation suggesting a personal relationship.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid
2. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Appell, Don.
2. Herman, Jerry, 1931-2019.

Research call number

1. JPB 11-19