Theater and Performing Arts Collections

Theater and Performing Arts: Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections

Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.

For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

• Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Serials. HTML Guide
• Celia and Delia Austrian. Papers.
  
• Willliam Harlowe Briggs Collection of Dramatic Criticism
  
• T. Allston Brown. Opera House Newsclippings. [Ms. 1089]
  
• Beatrice Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell. Papers.
  
• Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. Records.
  
• Chicago Jazz Archive
  
• Chicago Repertory Group. Records.
  
• George Nathan Christy. Dialogue Book and Playbills. [Ms. 200]
  
• Charles Dibdin. Collection of Songs. [Ms. 444]
  
• Selina Dolaro. Poems and Plays. [Ms. 1505]
  
• Edinburgh. Theatre Royal. Circumstances Relating to the Theatre Royal. [Ms. 514]
  
• English Actors and Actresses. Correspondence. [Ms. 623]
  
• Felix; or, Greatness in Poverty [Ms. 598]
  
• General Archival Files. HTML Guide
• Samuel Goldman. Papers.
  
• Adelaide Eunice Goodrich. Papers.
  
• Archibald Clavering Gunter. Papers. Finding Aid
• John Thomas Haines. The French Spy. [Ms. 928]
  
• Harry Hansen. Papers.
  
• Edward Heron-Allen. Poems and Plays. [Ms. 1505]
  
• William Jerdan. The Conversazione. [Ms. 872f]
  
• Hugo Kauder. Papers.
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Civil War Song Sheets
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Civil War-Era Sheet Music
  
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana. Lincoln Sheet Music
  
• William E. Barton Colleciton of Lincolniana. Nineteenth-Century American Sheet Music
  
• Los Locos de Granada [Ms. 1145]
  
• Marlborough; or, Three Phases of a Life. [Ms. 1077]
  
• Archibald McLaren. First Night's Lodging; or, The Picts Expelled. [Ms. 599]
  
• Motion Picture Stills Collection
  
• Playbills and Programs Collection
  
• Sheet Music Collection
  
• Song Sheet and Broadside Poem Collection
  
• Harrington Shortall. Papers.
  
• Fay Slobod. Correspondence. [Ms. 605]
  
• Richard John Smith. Papers. [Ms. 513]
  
• Ernest W. Stirn. Papers.
  
• Theatrical Cash Books [Ms. 929]
  
• University of Chicago. Blackfriars. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Faculty Wives' Dinners. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Scandinavian Club. Records. Finding Aid
• Carl Van Vechten Photographs [ff PS 3543.A28Z8A4 Rare]
  
• Margit Varro. Papers.
  
• Adair Welcker. Louis XVI. [Ms. 645]
  
• Wieboldt German Folksong Collection
  
• Napier Wilt. Index of Chicago Theatrical Performances.
  
• Napier Wilt. Papers.
  

See also: Poetry, Literature and Film Studies

See also Rare Book Collection: Programs of concert, opera, and theatrical performances in Chicago
produced by Harry Zelzer Concert Mangement (1937-1948) and Allied Arts Corporation (1948-1977),
call number ML42.P76 Rare.