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New York Group papers, 1950-2000
33 linear feetCorrespondence, documents, manuscripts and typescripts of writings, paintings, photographs, audio tapes, and printed materials. The collection chiefly consists on the Group's writings and research materials.
Joseph Urban papers, 1893-1998
135 linear feetCollection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.
Opera libretto with notes, German Box 12, Folder 7
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- Opera libretto with notes, German
Random House records, 1925-1999
702 linear feetThe collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.
Howard, John Tasker: Opera Librettos [Pub. As The World's Great Operas] Box 236
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- Howard, John Tasker: Opera Librettos [Pub. As The World's Great Operas]
Tony Kushner papers, 1920, 1961-2018
84 linear feetSubseries I.2.8: St. Cecilia, or the Power of Music, circa 1997
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- Opera libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist's Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Eine
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Opera libretto based on Heinrich von Kleist's Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik, Eine Legende.