Roscoe W. Segar was a Portland, Oregon commercial artist specializing in theater advertisements. The collection contains advertising proposals, work, and publications, radio advertisement copy, manuscripts, tearsheets, scrapbooks, photographs, selections of Segar’s student work, and collected theatre and motion picture memorabilia.
Coll 247
The University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts began within the Speech Department and the Theatre division was first headed by Horace Robinson who was also the Director of the University Theatre. The collection includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and office files, photographs, slides, contact sheets, and negatives, broadsides, articles, posters, exhibit panels and other publicity, audio cassette tapes, and Eugene performing arts festival information, 1890-2001.
UA 088
Carolyn Gage (1952- ) is a lesbian feminist playwright, author, performer, director, and activist. The collection contains manuscripts of plays, essays, and fiction writing, business and personal correspondence, financial records and contracts, an autobiography, reviews, clippings, and promotional material, conference material, personal papers, photographs, audio tapes, and published works.
Coll 358
The University Theatre at the University of Oregon opened in December of 1949 and is used primarily for productions produced by the Department of Theatre Arts. The collection contains office and financial records, annual reports, playbills, publicity materials, production reports, board meetings, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings, an operation manual, reviews, and correspondence from 1909-2003.
Call number: UA 148
Collection comprises papers of American author Mary Jane Carr, and includes draft manuscripts of two books; proofs, illustrations by Robert Kuhn, and correspondence relating to the books, including material from Walt Disney Productions; two puppet plays by Carr; poems; engraving plates; fan letters; and miscellaneous materials.
Call number: Ax 121
Collection comprises architectural plans and photographs related to the construction of the New Heathman Hotel, in Portland, Oregon in 1927; photographs of the interior of the Paramount Theater, Portland; photographs of designs and finished buildings in Portland and elsewhere in Oregon; and plans for the residence of Mrs. J. W. DeYoung.
Call number: Bx 131
Guide to the DeYoung and Roald Architectural Plans and photographs
Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) was a teacher and a writer of plays, screenplays, novels, short stories, essays, song lyrics and libretti. The collection contains screenplays and other writings relating to film.
Call number: Ax 429
Horace Robinson (1910-2009), Professor Emeritus of the University of Oregon, served on the faculty as technical director, scene designer, and director of the University Theatre. Papers include manuscripts, scripts, scores and other creative works from University Theatre productions, photographs, and records of Robinson’s involvement in local, national, and international professional and community service organizations.
Call number: UA 025
Ralph E. Dyar (1885-1955) was an author and playwright who also worked for and wrote about newspapers and newspaper promotion and research. The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, and the working files for the book, News for an Empire: The Story of the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, and of the Field it Serves.
Call number: Ax 255
Lowell Brentano (1895-1950) was a publisher, playwright, novelist, editor, literary agent, and frequent collaborator with his wife, Frances Hyams Brentano and many others in the literary world. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts by Lowell and also Francis Brentano, tearsheets, copyright and registration material, court records, publisher and author permissions, reviews, biographical material, memorabilia, and a scrapbook.
Call number: Ax 568
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