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MS Thr 402

Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950, collector. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana collection of Russian theatrical scripts and papers: Guide.

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Location: b
Call No.: MS Thr 402
Creator: Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950, collector.
Title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana collection of Russian theatrical scripts and papers,
Date(s): 1902-1968.
Quantity: 47 boxes (24 linear ft.)
Abstract: Theatrical plays, programs and photographs concerning Russian theatre and film, collected by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow Dana.

Processing Information:

Additional unprocessed material include about 60 boxes (without inventory) and another 8 boxes of unprocessed notebooks on Russian, European and American drama, literature and history (listing available in the Harvard Theatre Collection), transferred from the Harvard University Archives in Nov. 2001.

Historical Note

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, grandson of H.W. Longfellow, served as the first curator of the Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

Scope and Content

Photographs, films, negatives, scripts, correspondence, programs, poetry, drawings, and clippings of various film productions and plans and sketches for theatrical plays by A. Afinogenov, Leonid Andreev, Aleksei Arbuzov, A. P. Chekhov, A. Dovzhenko, Konstantin Finn, Anatol Glebov, Maksim Gor'kii, Oleksandr Korniichuk (Aleksandr Korneichuk), and Mikhail Lermontov. Materials are in Russian, English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish and German.

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