Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 3.7 linear feet (11 boxes, 1 volume)

Summary

1. Happy Fanny Fields (born Fanny Furman, circa 1881-1961) was an American actress, dancer, and comedian who found great success in British pantomime theater in the first decade of the twentieth century. The collection documents Fields' professional life in New York and Europe, with an emphasis on her career in Britain. The bulk of the materials are scrapbooks, writings, and photographs, with contracts, letters, programs, and posters also included.

Subject

1. Theater programs
2. Contracts
3. Posters
4. Scrapbooks
5. Clippings (information artifacts)
6. Vaudeville
7. Pantomime (Christmas entertainment)
8. Photographs

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts).
2. Contracts.
3. Photographs.
4. Posters.
5. Scrapbooks.
6. Theater programs.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 2012-033

Access (note)

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

Terms of use (note)

1. The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.

Source (note)

1. Unknown.

Author

1. Fields, Fanny.

Title

1. Fanny Fields papers, 1891-1961 (bulk 1900-1913).

Restricted access

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

Terms of use

1. The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.

Source

1. Unknown.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre Division Special Collections material
2. Finding aid

Research call number

1. *T-Mss 2012-033