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Guide to the Hallie Flanagan Papers, circa 1890-1988

Guide to the Hallie Flanagan Papers, circa 1890-1988

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Creator: Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969
Title: Hallie Flanagan Papers
Dates: circa 1890-1988
Quantity: 15.5 cubic feet (92 boxes)
Abstract: Papers primarily concerning Flanagan's teaching and theater activities at Vassar College and her work with the Federal Theater Project. Includes correspondence, curriculum materials, scripts and other play records, reports, speeches, programs, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings.
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Biographical Note

Hallie Flanagan Davis, whose professional name was Hallie Flanagan, taught drama at Vassar, 1925-1942, and founded its experimental theater. She is more widely known, however, for her work in the 1930s as the director of the Federal Theater Project. She wrote several plays, numerous articles, and three books -- Arena, the story of the Federal Theatre; Dynamo, the story of the Vassar Theatre; and Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theatre, the product of a year spent in Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1926.

Hallie Flanagan was born Hallie Mae Ferguson in Redfield, South Dakota. She graduated from Grinnell College in 1911. In her own words, "The main thing that happened to me at college was Murray Flanagan." Hallie Ferguson married Murray Flanagan in 1912, but her "rapturous" marriage ended with her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1919. After teaching high school, Hallie Flanagan taught English courses at Grinnell College and wrote plays. While teaching at Grinnell, she also assisted with performances of plays. Her own play, The Curtain, won a prize and helped her gain admittance to Harvard professor George Pierce Baker's 47 Workshop for Playwrights. In 1924 she earned an A.M. degree from Radcliffe. Upon returning to Grinnell, she produced some of her plays, which attracted the attention of Vassar's president, Henry Noble MacCracken, who offered her a teaching position at Vassar.

Hallie Flanagan's entire adult life was devoted to the theater as an educator, playwright, administrator, and director. From 1925 until 1942, she was a professor at Vassar. She founded and directed the Vassar Experimental Theatre, which was well known for the quality and originality of its productions. In 1934, during a sabbatical from Vassar, Hallie Flanagan directed the theater at Dartington Hall in England. She married Philip H. Davis, a professor of Greek at Vassar, in April of that year, keeping the name Flanagan professionally. In 1935 she took leave from Vassar to serve as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a unique effort in the history of American theater which staged over one thousand productions in forty cities. In 1942, Hallie Flanagan Davis went to Smith College as dean and professor of drama. She retired in 1955, at which time she moved back to Poughkeepsie. Hallie Flanagan Davis died in 1969, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection primarily concerns her teaching and theater activities at Vassar College and her work with the Federal Theater Project and includes correspondence, curriculum materials, scripts and other play records, reports, speeches, programs, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings. Correspondence consists of letters received and carbons of her outgoing letters to students and colleagues concerning her articles and books on the theater, the Russian theater, her experiences during a European trip, her Vassar classes, recommendations for her students, Theatre Arts Monthly, workers' theater such as the Arteff Theatre in New York, and other issues relating to the theater, 1925-1938. Correspondents include President Henry MacCracken of Vassar and her literary agent August Lenninger. There are also several letters from May Sarton concerning an amateur theatrical group she was working with and arrangements for a production at Vassar, 1933-1934; and two letters exchanged between Flanagan and T.S. Eliot about Flanagan's work and Eliot's suggestions for the setting, directions, and final scene for a production of his play Sweeney, 1933. Material on the Federal Theater Project consists of briefs, reports, scripts, playbills, and other printed matter.

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Access and Use

Access

One folder in box 45 of this collection is restricted according to the Family Educational Rights and Property Act. The rest of the collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.

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Related Material

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Subject Headings

Names:

  • Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
  • Lenninger, August
  • MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), 1880-1970
  • Sarton, May, 1912-1995

Organizations:

  • Arteff Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
  • Federal Theater Project
  • Smith College. Department of Theatre
  • Vassar College--Faculty
  • Vassar College--Students
  • Vassar College--Vassar Experimental Theatre

Subjects:

  • Amateur theater
  • College theater--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
  • Drama--Study and teaching
  • Experimental theatre
  • Federal aid to the theater
  • Performing arts--New York (N.Y.)
  • Theater--Soviet Union
  • Theater--United States
  • Women college teachers
  • Women in the theater
  • Workers' theater--New York (N.Y.)

Places:

  • Europe--Description and travel

Document Types:

  • Clippings (information artifacts)
  • Correspondence
  • Photographs
  • Playbills
  • Printed ephemera
  • Scrapbooks
  • Scripts

VCL Categories:

  • Theater, Drama and Film
  • Vassar College
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Encoding Information

Encoded by Elizabeth Clarke, March 2007. Updated by Laura Streett June 2009 and April 2019. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, July 2025.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Hallie Flanagan Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Original processing date unknown.

Materials in Box 92 processed by Emma Gronbeck, July 2025.

Acquisition Information

This collection includes two major accessions. Approximately 4 cubic feet were purchased from Joanne Davis Bentley in 1988. The other was a transfer from the Vassar Drama Department at an unknown date before 1988.

Six additional items were donated by Joanne Bentley in 2009: 2 letters from HFD (26 May 1930 and 16 June 1930), one diary fragment (beginning 19 Feb 1928), and a manuscript which is either a transcript of an interview with Shirley Rich Krohn or (more likely) a biographical piece written by HFD for "Dr. Wheelis" which was annotated by Shirley Rich Krohn. The other item is a folder of materials on Flanagan Bentley received by Bentley from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after filing a FOIA request. The items are now in folders 1.6, 20.161, 57.474a and 59.505.

Series X. 2025 Addition (Box 92), was the gift of Kathy Mendoza (VC 1965), collected by her mother, Barbara Mendoza. [M2025-008]

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Series List

Series I. Correspondence, 1909-1987 (Boxes 1-17)

  • Professional correspondence, 1910-1955, undated
  • Vassar correspondence: interdepartmental and with students and parents, 1925-1941
  • Federal Summer Theatre at Vassar correspondence, 1937-1938
  • Personal correspondence, 1909-1967, undated
  • Correspondence of others, 1918-1980, undated
  • Correspondence to Joanne Bentley, 1969-1987

Series II. Writings, 1904-1953 (Boxes 18-27, 60-91)

  • Bibliographies and Autobiographical Essay, 1948, undated
  • Travel notes/diaries, 1904, 1926-1934
  • Notebooks, 1925-1927, 1936-1938
  • Dramatic works, 1922-1953, undated
  • Essays / articles, 1924-1952, undated
  • Poetry and Fiction 1908-1935, undated
  • Speeches, 1937-1944
  • Shifting Scenes- printing plates, 1928
  • Writings of others

Series III. Printed Materials and Clippings, circa 1909-1988 (Boxes 28-43)

  • Materials about HFD and her publications
  • Federal Theatre Project: General
  • Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Play Bureau Lists
  • Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Service Bureau Lists
  • Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Play Bureau Play scripts
  • Dies Committee
  • Grinnell College
  • 47 Workshop
  • Pamona College
  • Vassar College
  • Smith College
  • Miscellaneous articles on theater and dance
  • Clippings and articles about others
  • Unused postcards
  • Miscellaneous printed materials

Series IV. Institutional/Organizational Material, 1923-1969 (Boxes 44-48)

  • Harvard University/Radcliffe College
  • Vassar College
  • Smith College
  • Miscellaneous

Series V. Production Scripts and Materials, circa 1925-1953 (Boxes 49-51)

  • Vassar Experimental Theatre
  • Federal Summer Theatre at Vassar, 1937
  • Federal Theatre Project, [193?]
  • Smith College, [1944-1945, 1953]

Series VI. Scrapbook, 1907-1911 (Box 52)

Series VII. Photographs, circa 1890 - circa 1982 (Boxes 53-54)

  • Professional
  • Family

Series VIII. Audio Recordings and Transcripts, 1967-1985 (Boxes 55-57)

  • Interviews by Joanne Bentley
  • Interviews by George Mason University

Series IX. Family History and Biographical Material, circa 1916-1980 (Boxes 58-59)

  • HFD: General, non-printed material
  • HFD: Unpublished biographical essays/articles
  • Family History

Series X. 2025 Addition, 1909-1987 (Box 92)

This series contains materials created by Hallie Flanagan, or about Hallie Flanagan and her work, that were collected by Barbara J. Mendoza during her research for her New York University doctoral dissertation, "Hallie Flanagan: Her Role in American Theatre, 1924-1935," 1976. Mendoza was given records related to Flanagan, the Vassar College English Department, and the Vassar Experimental Theatre, by the Vassar College English Department sometime around 1973. The series contains a mix of original and duplicate records created by Flanagan, the Vassar College English Department, and Mendoza.

Container List

SERIES I. CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1987

Professional correspondence, 1910-1955
Folder 1.1 The Short Stories Co. to HFD, 1910 (1 letter)
Folder 1.2 To and from HFD, 1924 (2 letters)
Folder 1.3 To and from HFD, 1925 Jan - 1926 Jun (27 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 1.4 To and from HFD, 1926 Jul-Dec (16 letters)
Folder 1.5 To and from HFD, 1927 (8 letters; 1 postcard)
Folder 1.6 To and from HFD, 1928-1930 (10 letters; 1 postcard)
Folder 1.7 To and from HFD, 1931 (13 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 1.8 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1932 (54 letters; 3 misc.)
Folder 2.9 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Jan-Mar (49 letters; 4 postcards)
Folder 2.9a To HFD from T.S. Eliot re Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Mar-May (2 letters, M2006-002)
Folder 2.10 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Apr-Jun (40 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 2.11 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Jul-Aug (31 letters)
Folder 2.12 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Sep-Oct (55 letters; 2 postcards; 1 misc.)
Folder 2.13 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1933 Nov-Dec (58 letters; 1 postcard; 5 misc.)
Folder 3.14 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Jan (48 letters)
Folder 3.15 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Feb-Mar (54 letters; 1 postcard)
Folder 3.16 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Apr-May (45 letters)
Folder 3.17 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Jun-Sep (39 letters; 1 postcard; 2 misc.)
Folder 3.18 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Oct (50 letters; 2 postcards)
Folder 3.19 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1934 Nov-Dec (40 letters)
Folder 4.20 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Jan (42 letters)
Folder 4.21 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Feb (33 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 4.22 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Mar (52 letters; 3 misc.)
Folder 4.23 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Apr (37 letters)
Folder 4.24 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 May (40 letters; 2 postcards; 3 misc.)
Folder 4.25 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Jun-Aug (40 letters; 2 postcards; 2 misc.)
Folder 5.26 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1935 Sep-Dec (40 letters; 2 postcards; 1 misc.)
Folder 5.27 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1936 (30 letters; 3 postcards)
Folder 5.28 To and from HFD and Vassar Experimental Theatre, 1937-1940 (36 letters)
Folder 5.29 Federal Theatre Project: to and from HFD, 1936 (10 letters/memos - 1 original (6/13/36); remaining are photocopies, originals poss. in National Archives)
Folder 5.30 Federal Theatre Project: to and from HFD, 1937-1938 (21 letters/memos; 1 fragment - photocopies, originals poss. in National Archives)
Folder 5.31 Federal Theatre Project: to and from HFD, 1939 (20 letters/memos - photocopies, originals poss. in National Archives)
Folder 5.32 To and from HFD, 1942-1955 (33 letters)
Vassar correspondence: interdepartmental and with students and parents, 1925-1941
Folder 6.34 Interdepartmental business, primarily correspondence with President H.N. MacCracken, 1925-1932 (47 letters)
Folder 6.35 Interdepartmental business, primarily correspondence with President H.N. MacCracken, 1933-1940, undated (66 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 6.36 Correspondence with students and parents, 1932-1933 (36 letters)
Folder 6.37 Correspondence with students and parents, 1934-1935, May 1937, undated (58 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 6.38 Correspondence relating to Vassar Vocational Bureau, 1932-1935 (40 letters)
Folder 6.39 Correspondence from Vassar students, classes of 1929-1941, collected by HFD for Dynamo, 1941-1942 (10 letters; 1 misc.)
Federal Summer Theatre at Vassar correspondence, 1937-1938
Folder 7.40 Administration: nominations, 1937 May-Jun (27 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 7.41 Administration: transportation for participants, 1937 Apr-Sep (61 letters)
Folder 7.42 Administration: notification letters to participants, 1937 Jun (24 letters)
Folder 7.43 Administration: room and board for participants, 1937 Mar-Aug (27 letters; 3 misc.)
Folder 7.44 Administration: general correspondence and memos, 1937 May-Jun (18 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 7.45 Administration: general correspondence and memos, 1937 Jun 16-27 (29 letters; 4 misc.)
Folder 8.46 Administration: general correspondence and memos, 1937 Jun 28 - Jul 9 (66 letters)
Folder 8.47 Administration: general correspondence and memos, 1937 Jul - 1938 Feb (56 letters; 2 postcards; 1 misc.)
Folder 8.48 Administration: payroll, 1937 Jun 25 - Jul 1 (21 letters)
Folder 8.49 Administration: payroll, 1937 Jul 2-13 (30 letters)
Folder 8.50 Administration: payroll, 1937 Jul-Aug (60 letters)
Personal correspondence, 1909-1967
Folder 9.51 John P. Ryan to HFD, 1909 (1 letter)
Folder 9.52 Murray Flanagan to HFD, 1913 (1 letter)
Folder 9.53 HFD to Deborah Wiley, 1917 (9 letters)
Folder 9.54 HFD to Grinnell students, 1924-1928 (6 letters - 2 original)
Folder 9.55 HFD to family, from Europe, 1926 Sep - 1927 May (28 postcards)
Folder 9.56 HFD to Vassar Experimental Theatre and individual students, from Europe, 1934 Feb-Mar (12 letters)
Folder 9.57 HFD to Vassar Experimental Theatre and individual students, from Europe, 1934 Apr-Jun (12 letters; 3 postcards)
Folder 9.58 HFD to Vassar Experimental Theatre and Esther Porter, from Europe, 1934 Feb-Apr (26 pages)
Folder 9.59A Miscellaneous personal correspondence, to and from HFD, 1932-1953
Folder 9.59B Photocopies of material not owned by Vassar - most are letters to Lynne Anderson, 1938-1955
Folder 9.59C Eleanor Roosevelt to HFD, 1952-1953 (3 TLS)
Folder 10.60 HFD to Philip Davis, 1935 May-Sep (15 letters; 2 fragments)
Folder 10.61 HFD to Philip Davis, 1935 Oct (10 letters)
Folder 10.62 HFD to Philip Davis, 1935 Nov-Dec, undated (13 letters; 2 fragments)
Folder 10.63 HFD to Philip Davis, 1936 Jan-Mar (12 letters)
Folder 10.64 HFD to Philip Davis, 1936 Apr-Jun (9 letters; 2 fragments)
Folder 10.65 HFD to Philip Davis, 1936 Jul-Sep (6 letters; 1 fragment)
Folder 10.66 HFD to Philip Davis, 1936 Oct-Dec, undated (11 letters; 3 fragments)
Folder 10.67 HFD to Philip Davis, 1937 Jan-May (10 letters)
Folder 10.68 HFD to Philip Davis, 1937 Jun-Oct (10 letters; 4 fragments)
Folder 10.69 HFD to Philip Davis, 1937 Nov-Dec (14 letters; 1 fragment)
Folder 10.70 HFD to Philip Davis, 1938 Jul - 1939 Feb, undated (1 letter; 2 fragments; 1 postcard)
Folder 11.71 HFD to Philip Davis: selected transcripts by Joanne Bentley, 1935 May (2 pages)
Folder 11.72 HFD to Philip Davis: selected transcripts by Joanne Bentley, 1936 (29 pages)
Folder 11.73 HFD to Philip Davis: selected transcripts by Joanne Bentley, 1937 (28 pages)
Folder 11.74 HFD to Philip Davis: selected transcripts by Joanne Bentley, 1935 [Jul] (4 pages)
Folder 11.75 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: A-C, 1940 (42 letters; 2 cards; 1 postcard)
Folder 11.76 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: D-G, 1940 (52 letters; 1 card)
Folder 11.77 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: H-K, 1940 (29 letters)
Folder 11.78 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: L-N, 1940 (44 letters)
Folder 12.79 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: O-R, 1940 (27 letters)
Folder 12.80 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: S-T, 1940 (35 letters)
Folder 12.81 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: U-Z, 1940 (27 letters; 1 cards)
Folder 12.82 Letters of sympathy to HFD after death of Philip Davis: unidentified, 1940 (18 letters)
Folder 12.83 HFD to friends after Philip Davis's death, 1940 Feb-Apr (4 letters - photocopies)
Folder 12.84 Joanne Bentley to HFD, circa 1939-1943, 1964 (15 letters)
Folder 12.85 Correspondence with Robert Baron, primarily HFD to RB, 1948-1953, undated (31 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 12.86 From HFD to family and friends, 1955 (7 letters)
Note: Correspondents in Folders 86 - 103 include: Joanne and Eric Bentley, Fred and Betty Flanagan, Philip and Frances Youtz, Lynne Anderson, Lillian Berkeley, Emmet Lavery, Jane Matthews, Henry Allen Moe, Carlotta O'Neill, John Sollers, Patsy Walsh and Florence Wislocki.
Folder 12.87 From HFD to family and friends, 1956 (17 letters)
Folder 12.88 From HFD to family and friends, 1957 (6 letters)
Folder 13.89 From HFD to family and friends, 1958 (7 letters)
Folder 13.90 From HFD to family and friends, 1959 (4 letters)
Folder 13.91 From Eleanor Roosevelt to HFD, 1959 (2 letters)
Folder 13.92 From HFD to family and friends, 1955-1959, undated (7 letters)
Folder 13.93 From HFD to family and friends, 1960 (8 letters)
Folder 13.94 From HFD to family and friends, 1961 (10 letters)
Folder 13.95 From HFD to family and friends, 1962 (16 letters)
Folder 13.96 From HFD to family and friends, 1963 (13 letters)
Folder 13.97 From HFD to family and friends, 1964 (12 letters)
Folder 13.98 From HFD to family and friends, 1965 Jan-Jun (17 letters)
Folder 13.99 From HFD to family and friends, 1965 Jul-Dec (14 letters)
Folder 14.100 From HFD to family and friends, 1966 (15 letters; 1 envelope)
Folder 14.101 From HFD to family and friends, 1967 (2 letters; 2 envelope)
Folder 14.102 From HFD to family and friends, [196?] (9 letters)
Folder 14.103 From HFD to family and friends - Notes taken by Joanne Bentley, 1956-1961 (2 pages)
Correspondence of others, 1918-1980
Folder 14.104 From Philip Davis to Jean Davis, 1918-1919, 1931-1934 (6 letters)
Folder 14.105 From Philip Davis to E.C. Mabie, 1937, [193?] (2 letters)
Folder 14.106 From Philip Davis to Esther Porter [Lane], [193?] (1 letter)
Folder 14.107 From Peter Cox to Dorothy Elmhirst, 1947 (2 pages, TS extracts)
Folder 14.108 Between Robert Baron and others regarding reprint of Arena, 1951-1960 (33 letters; 2 misc.)
Folder 14.109 Regarding reprint of Arena - correspondents include: Frederic Flanagan; Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, Inc.; Eric Bentley; Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1963-1966 (24 letters; 2 contracts)
Folder 14.110 From Joanne Bentley to siblings re: HFD, 1964 (1 letter)
Folder 14.111 From Margaret Ellen Clifford to Eric Bentley, 1964 (1 letter)
Folder 15.115 From Smith College students, collected by Helen Chinoy's Theatre Seminar, 1975 (TS excerpts - 21 pages)
Folder 15.116 From Joanne Bentley to Virginia Deknatel and Vassar alumnae regarding HFD material, 1979-1980 (7 letters)
Folder 16.123 From Grinnell College students to Audrey Koran, 1971 (5 letters - photocopies)
Correspondence to Joanne Bentley, 1969-1987
Folder 14.112 Regarding Philip Youtz, 1980 (3 letters; 2 clippings)
Folder 15.113 Letters of sympathy after HFD's death, 1969 (31 letters)
Folder 15.114 Memorial service for HFD, 1969 Sep 16 (26 letters)
Folder 15.117 Grinnell neighbors, 1979-1980 (15 letters; 1 fragment; 1 misc.)
Folder 15.118 Grinnell high school classmates, 1980 (17 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 15.119 Grinnell College classmates, 1979-1980 (5 letters)
Folder 15.120 Relatives: William Lyle Flanagan, 1980 (5 letters)
Folder 15.121 High school students of HFD in Iowa and Missouri, 1979-1980 (9 letters)
Folder 15.122 People involved with George P. Baker's 47 Workshop and Radcliffe, 1980, 1982 (7 letters)
Folder 16.124 Grinnell College Students, 1980, 1982 (15 letters)
Folder 16.125 Pomona College friends of Summer, 1925, 1980, 1982 (3 letters; 1 misc.)
Folder 16.126 Relatives about HFD and Philip Davis, 1980-1982 (12 letters)
Folder 16.127 Vassar students about HFD and Philip Davis, 1980, 1987 (6 letters)
Folder 16.128 About wedding of HFD and Philip Davis, 1980, 1985 (3 letters)
Folder 16.129 Federal Theatre Project colleagues, 1980-1985 (16 letters)
Folder 16.130 Vassar students, classes of 1928-1930, 1979-1982 (36 letters; 1 postcard)
Folder 17.131 Vassar students, classes of 1931-1933, 1980-1983 (15 letters; 1 postcard; 1 misc.)
Folder 17.132 Vassar students, classes of 1934-1936, 1980-1981 (14 letters)
Folder 17.133 Vassar students, classes of 1940-1942, 1980 (6 letters; 1 extract)
Folder 17.134 Vassar colleagues and friends, 1980-1982, 1987 (30 letters)
Folder 17.135 Miscellaneous colleagues and friends during HFD's Vassar years, 1980, 1984 (3 letters; 1 postcard)
Folder 17.136 Smith College students, 1979-1980 (6 letters)
Folder 17.137 Smith College colleagues and friends, 1979-1987 (20 letters)
Folder 17.138 Miscellaneous friends and acquaintances during Smith years, 1973, 1980-1981 (6 letters)
Folder 17.139 Miscellaneous friends and acquaintances, 1955-1969, 1980 (2 letters; 1 fragment)
Folder 17.140 Guggenheim Foundation, 1982 (1 letter)

SERIES II. WRITINGS, 1904-1953

Writings of HFD: Bibliographies and Autobiographical Essay
Folder 18.141 Bibliographies, undated
Folder 18.142 Autobiography: Notes on my life, 1948 (MS)
Writings of HFD: Travel notes/diaries
Folder 18.143 St Louis World's Fair, 1904 (MS diary)
Folder 18.144 Europe, 1926 Aug - 1927 May (MS diary)
Folder 18.145 Moscow [feature Gordon Craig and Stanislavsky], 1926 Oct-Nov (MS diaries I-III)
Folder 18.146 Leningrad; Berlin [feature Dr. Horsley Gantt], 1926 Dec (MS diaries)
Folder 19.147 Europe, 1926 Sep - 1927 Jan (MS notebook)
Folder 19.148 Europe, 1927 Feb-May (MS notebook)
Folder 19.149 Europe, 1926 Jul-Sep (TS transcripts- excerpts from MS diary)
Folder 19.150 Europe, 1927 Mar-Apr (TS transcripts- excerpts from MS diary)
Folder 19.151 Europe, 1926-1927 (TS transcripts- excerpts from MS notebook
Folder 19.152 Russia; Turkey, 1930 (MS notebook)
Folder 19.153 Turkey, train trip north, 1930 (MS diary)
Folder 19.154 Europe, 1930 May-Jun (TS transcripts - excerpts from MS notebook)
Folder 20.155 Europe, 1934 Mar-Aug (MS diary)
Folder 20.156 Europe, 1934 Feb-Apr (MS notebook)
Folder 20.157 Europe, 1934 May-Jun (MS notebook)
Folder 20.158 Europe, 1934 Jul-Aug (photocopies of MS notebook)
Folder 20.159 Europe, 1934 Feb-May (transcripts - excerpts from MS diary)
Writings of HFD: Notebooks
Folder 20.160 New York theater season, 1925-1926 (MS notebook)
Folder 20.161 Miscellaneous, 1926-1927 (MS notebooks)
Folder 20.162 Federal Theatre Project, 1936-1938 (TS notebooks)
Writings of HFD: Dramatic works
Folder 20.163 The Curtain, 1922 (published)
Folder 20.164 The Garden of Wishes, 1923 (TS carbon)
Folder 20.165 The Garden of Wishes, 1923 (TS carbon)
Folder 21.166 Incense [written ca. 1923-1924], 1925 (TS carbon)
Folder 21.167 Incense [written ca. 1923-1924], 1925 (TS carbon w/ penciled editing)
Folder 21.168 Incense [written ca. 1923-1924], 1925 (photocopy of TS w/ director's comments - original in Yale School of Drama library)
Folder 21.169 Incense [written ca. 1923-1924], 1925 (mimeograph of TS - later note by HFD on title page ?)
Folder 21.170 Free [written summer 1924], 1924 (photocopy of TS)
Folder 21.171 Here Comes the Bridegroom - Grinnell years, undated (TS)
Folder 21.172 Here Comes the Bridegroom - Grinnell years, undated (TS carbon)
Folder 22.173 Can You Hear Their Voices, by HFD and Margaret Ellen Clifford, 1931 (published)
Folder 22.174 Fear - Acting version by HFD, 1933 (TS carbon)
Folder 22.175 The Sky Will Be Lit Up, by HFD and Janet Hartman, 1933 (photocopy of TS - original at Library of Congress)
Folder 22.176 The Lost Aphrodite: [a Comedy on Archaeology], 1934 (work copy - part TS, part TS carbon)
Folder 22.177 Chorus for the Delian Apollo, circa 1934 (published, 2c.)
Folder 22.178 Margaret Fuller, by HFD and Nathalie Wolfe, circa 1939 (TS)
Folder 23.179 Margaret Fuller, circa 1939 (TS carbon)
Folder 23.180 No Time for Tears, 1940 or 1944? (TS)
Folder 23.181 E = mc2: a Living Newspaper About the Atomic Age, 1947 (published - autographed by HFD for Joanne Davis Bentley)
Folder 23.182 Heritage: a Play in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Smith College, 1953 (published - autographed by HFD for Eric Bentley)
Folder 23.183 Trust Emily, undated (TS carbon)
Folder 23.184 Introduction for unidentified play or series of scenes, undated (TS carbon)
Writings of HFD: Essays / articles
Folder 24.185 Essays/articles, 1924-1927 (7 items, published)
Folder 24.186 Essays/articles, 1927-1929 (2 items, TS carbons)
Folder 24.187 Essays/articles, 1931-1939 (12 items, TS, TS carbons)
Folder 24.188 Essays/articles, 1929-1930 (5 items, published)
Folder 24.189 Essays/articles, 1931-1932 (2 items, published)
Folder 24.190 Essays/articles, 1934 (4 items, published)
Folder 24.191 Essays/articles, 1936 (1 item, published)
Folder 25.192 Essays/articles, 1937 (3 items, published)
Folder 25.193 Essays/articles, 1938 (1 item, TS)
Folder 25.194 Essays/articles, 1939-1940 (6 items, published)
Folder 25.195 Essays/articles, [1947?] (1 item, TS)
Folder 25.196 Essays/articles, 1947 (1 item, published)
Folder 25.197 Essays/articles, 1952 (1 item, published)
Folder 25.198 Essays/articles, undated (4 items, TS, TS carbons)
Writings of HFD: Poetry and Fiction
Folder 25.199 Undergraduate poetry: photocopies from 1911 Grinnell Annual, 1911 (10 pages)
Folder 25.200 Fiction: photocopies from Unit, Grinnell's literary magazine, 1908-1910 (6 items)
Folder 25.201 Fiction: The Ant and the Statue, 1925-1935 (19 pages, incomplete, TS carbon)
Folder 25.202 Fiction: In His Image, [1925-1935?] (TS carbon)
Folder 25.203 Fiction: In His Image, [1925-1935?] (TS carbon w/ penciled editing)
Folder 25.204 Fiction: Maps of the Moon, [1925-1935?] (TS carbon, 2 copies)
Folder 25.205 Fiction: Pearls Found in a Bottle, [1925-1935?] (TS carbon with penciled editing)
Folder 25.206 Fiction: Miscellaneous, 1925-1935 (TS and TS carbons, 3 items)
Folder 25.207 Fiction: Miscellaneous Smith years, undated (TS and TS carbons, 5 items)
Writings of HFD: Speeches
Folder 26.208 Federal Theatre Project, 1935 Oct - 1937 May (TS notebooks, 4 items)
Folder 26.209 Federal Theatre Project, 1937 (TS notebooks, 4 items)
Folder 26.210 Federal Theatre Project, 1938 (TS notebooks, 5 items)
Folder 26.211 Federal Theatre Project: "A Brief Delivered by HFD . . . before the Committee on Parents,", 1938 Feb 8 (TS mimeograph, 2 copies)
Folder 26.212 Federal Theatre Project: speech at National Theatre Conference, 1940 (Published; photocopy)
Folder 26.213 Vassar: Chapel Talk to class of 1941, 1941 May 21 (Published)
Folder 26.214 Smith College: assembly talks, 1942 Sep - 1944 Jan (photocopy of TS)
Folder 26.215 Smith College: The Drums of Taos, 1944 Jan 26 (photocopy of TS, 2 copies)
Boxes 60-91 Shifting Scenes stereotype plates, 1928 (32 boxes)
Writings of others
Folder 27.216 [William H. Bridge?]: essay on Ruth St. Denis and the Society of Spiritual Art, undated
Folder 27.217 Whittaker Chambers: Can You Make Out Their Voices, 1931 (published; photocopy)
Folder 27.218 Kate Clugston: excerpts from her autobiography, re: HFD and Federal Theatre Project, undated (photocopy of TS)
Folder 27.219 Kate Clugston: Very Like a Whale [excerpts], undated (photocopy of TS)
Folder 27.220 Philip Davis: non-fiction/articles, 1934-1937 (published)
Folder 27.221 Philip Davis: poetry, 1925-1931 (TS)
Folder 27.222 Barbara Burnett Gratwick: travel notes/ diaries: Russia, 1930 (MS diary)
Folder 27.223 Grace Lynn: Arteff Theatre article, undated (TS)
Folder 27.224 Henry N. MacCracken: commencement address [re: Federal Theatre Project], 1939 (TS carbon, 2 copies)
Folder 27.225 Herbert A. Price: "WPA Players Brighten the Lot of Refugees,", 1937 (TS carbon)
Folder 27.226 Hilda W. Smith: "A Summary of Workers' Education Under the WPA,", 1938 (mimeograph)
Folder 27.227 Molly Day Thacher: Blocks, [1928?] (TS carbon)
Folder 27.228 Iris Vinton: "Filling the Seats: a Report on Audience Building,", [1929] (TS carbon)
Folder 27.229 Hal Welles: Excerpt from novel [character based on HFD], undated (photocopy of TS)
Folder 27.230 [s.n.]: "Analysis of Federal Theatre Plays Critized [sic] on the Floors of the U.S. Senate and House,", [1939?] (TS)
Folder 27.231 [unknown Congressman]: Report on investigation of Federal Theatre Project, 1939 (TS carbon)
Folder 27.232 [s.n.]: Essay re: Federal Theatre Project in New York City, 1939 (TS)

SERIES III. PRINTED MATERIALS and CLIPPINGS, circa 1909-1988

Materials about HFD and her publications
Folder 28.233 Clippings, circa 1909, 1925-1935 (29 items)
Folder 28.234 Clippings, 1936-1942 (43 items)
Folder 28.235 Clippings, [1943-1988] (35 items)
Folder 28.236 Book reviews, undated (29 items)
Folder 28.237 Awards and honors, undated (6 items)
Folder 28.238 Bookplate, undated (1 item)
Federal Theatre Project: General
Folder 28.239 Flyers and programs, 1937 (7 items)
Folder 28.240 Clippings and articles, 1937 (41 items)
Folder 28.241 Publications: "First Federal Summer Theatre -- A Report,", 1937 (2 copies)
Folder 28.242 Programs, 1936-1939 (10 items)
Folder 28.243 Clippings and articles, 1936-1937 (23 items)
Folder 28.244 Clippings and articles, 1938-1941 (26 items)
Folder 29.245 Clippings and articles, 1961-1974, undated (14 items)
Map Case - Drawer 44 Clipping: "Hallie Flanagan, Director of WPA Theatre Sends Open Letter to Congressman Woodrum," Sunday Worker, 1939 Jun 18
Map Case - Drawer 44 Clipping: "Thousands Sign Petitions to Save W.P.A. Theatre Projects," Sunday Worker, 1938 Jun 18
Folder 29.246 Clipping: "One-third of a Nation: a Handbook of Source Materials,", 1984 (1 item)
Folder 29.247 Congressional Record, 1936 Apr 20 - May 7
Folder 29.248 Congressional Record, 1936 Jun 17
Folder 29.249 Congressional Record, 1939 Jan 23 - Apr 7
Folder 29.250 Congressional Record, 1936 Jun 15
Folder 29.251 Congressional Record, 1939 Jun 28
Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Play Bureau Lists
Folder 30.252 Russian Plays, 1936 Apr
Folder 30.253 A Suggested Production List of Non-Royalty plays -- Part I and Part II, 1936 Oct
Folder 30.254 90 New Plays, 1936 Dec
Folder 30.255 91 New Plays, 1936 Dec (copy 2)
Folder 31.256 34 Old and New Spanish Plays, 1937 Jan
Folder 31.257 Jewish Non-royalty Plays and Pageants, 1937 Jan
Folder 31.258 Rural Plays -- Part I,, 1937 Mar
Folder 31.259 Rural Plays -- Part II,, 1937 Apr
Folder 31.260 Patriotic Holiday Plays -- Non-royalty, Part II, 1937 Apr
Folder 32.261 Rural Plays -- Part I, 1937 Jun (3 copies)
Folder 32.262 Rural Plays -- Part III, 1937 Jun (3 copies)
Folder 32.263 Some New Unpublished One-act Plays -- Royalty Plays, Part I, 1937 Jul (2 copies)
Folder 32.264 72 Vaudeville Sketches -- Non-royalty, Part I, 1937 Sep
Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Service Bureau Lists
Folder 33.265 Anti-war Plays -- Foreign and Jewish Lists, 1937 Oct
Folder 33.266 Anti-war Plays -- Royalty List, 1937 Nov
Folder 33.267 Anti-war Plays for Community Theatres, 1937 Oct
Folder 33.268 Anti-war Plays for Community Theatres, 1937 Oct
Folder 33.269 40 Vaudeville Sketches -- Royalty, Part 2, 1937 Nov
Folder 34.270 57 Vaudeville Sketches, 1938 Jan (reissued)
Folder 34.271 Anglo-Jewish Plays in English and Yiddish, 1938 Jan
Folder 34.272 Catholic Plays -- Parts II and III, 1938 Feb
Folder 34.273 56 Minstrels, 1938 Feb
Folder 35.274 National Service Bureau Publications -- A Catalogue, 1938 Mar
Folder 35.275 A List of Negro Plays, 1938 Mar
Folder 35.276 72 Vaudeville Sketches -- Non-royalty, Part II, 1938 Mar
Folder 35.277 Old Testament Plays, 1938 Jul
Folder 35.278 59 Monologues, 1938 Dec
Folder 35.279 New Plays Survey, 1938 Dec
Federal Theatre Project: Publications - Play Bureau Play scripts
Folder 36.280 Class of 1929: A Play in Three Acts, 1936
Folder 36.281 Battle Hymn -- A Play in Three Acts, 1936 Oct
Folder 36.282 John Henry -- Steel Driving Man, [1936?]
Folder 37.283 Threnody American -- A Radio Drama About Youth, 1937 Jun (2 copies)
Folder 37.284 Late Primitive -- A Marionette Play in Two Acts, 1937 Jul
Folder 37.285 The Wildcats -- A Play About Youth, 1937 Jul (2 copies)
Folder 37.286 The Lost Generation -- A Play About Youth, 1937 Jul (2 copies)
Folder 38.287 We Are the Future -- A Play of Rural Youth, 1937 Jul (2 copies)
Folder 38.288 Morning Paper -- A Play About Newsboys, 1937 Jul
Folder 38.289 Sherlock Holmes -- Adapted for Marionettes, 1937 Jul
Folder 38.290 Don Quixote -- Adapted for the Marionette Theater, 1937 Jul
Folder 38.291 Nelagony, 1937 Nov
Folder 38.292 Folk Tunes from Mississippi, 1937 Dec (2nd edition)
Dies Committee
Folder 41.305 Excerpts from hearings [Federal Theatre Project chapter from Thirty Years of Treason], 1938 (photocopies)
Folder 41.306 Vassar student reactions [from Vassar Review, New York Times, Miscellany News], 1939 (photocopies)
Grinnell College
Folder 41.307 Early Grinnell, Iowa: Bartlett Family, undated (photocopies)
Folder 41.308 Early 20th century history, undated (photocopies)
Folder 41.309 Biographical information about Professors. Edward A. Steiner and John D. Stoops, undated (photocopies)
Folder 41.310 Publications: Grinnell College Bulletin, 1920-1926 (photocopies of excerpts)
Folder 41.311 Department of Theater: programs and clippings, 1921-1925 (21 pages; photocopies)
47 Workshop
Folder 41.312 Programs, 1923-1924 (7 pages; photocopies)
Pamona College
Folder 41.313 Clippings, 1925 Summer (3 pages; photocopies)
Vassar College
Folder 41.314 Vassar Experimental Theater, Vassar Drama Department: clippings/articles, 1917, 1928-1940, 1983, undated (27 items; some photocopies)
Folder 41.315 Vassar Experimental Theater: programs, 1928-1940 (13 items)
Folder 41.316 Summer session in the theater: programs/flyers, 1935 (4 items)
Folder 41.317 Summer session in the theater: clippings, 1935 (8 pages; photocopies)
Folder 41.318 Dutchess County Players, 1938 (1 item)
Folder 41.319 HFD Powerhouse Theater, 1973-1974 (4 items)
Smith College
Folder 41.320 Department of Theater: clippings/articles, 1945-1950 (7 items)
Folder 41.321 Department of Theater: programs, 1945-1950 (3 items)
Folder 41.322 Department of Theater: Denton Snyder: clippings/articles, undated (2 items)
Folder 41.323 Historical sketch of Northampton, MA, from New York Times, 1980 Feb 10 (photocopy)
Miscellaneous articles on theater and dance
Folder 42.324 American theater: misc. clippings/articles, 1925-1936, 1980 (5 items)
Folder 42.325 American theater: New York theater reviews, [1929 Feb-Mar?] (14 items; photocopies)
Folder 42.326 Workers' theaters: New Masses clippings, 1930 Jan - 1931 Jun (17 items)
Folder 42.326 Workers' theaters: The International Worker's Theater, articles from no. 4, 1931 May (17 items)
Folder 42.327 Workers' theaters: programs and flyers, undated (4 items)
Folder 42.328 Russian Theater: clippings and scrapbook articles, 1925-1934 (12 items; photocopies)
Folder 42.329 Russian Theater: programs/flyers, [1930?] (1 item)
Folder 42.330 English Theater: clippings/articles, 1934 (8 items; photocopies)
Folder 42.331 English Theater: programs/flyers, [1934?] (10 items)
Folder 42.332 Italian Theater: clippings/articles, 1934 (6 items; photocopies)
Folder 42.333 Italian Theater: programs/flyers, 1929-1934 (12 items)
Folder 42.334 French Theater: clippings/articles, 1934 (1 item: photocopy, original)
Folder 42.335 French Theater: programs/flyers, 1934 (2 items)
Folder 42.336 Miscellaneous clippings during European trip, 1934 (5 items; photocopies)
Folder 42.337 Dance: clippings/articles, 1928-1933 (19 items; some photocopies)
Folder 42.338 Dance: New York dance productions: programs/flyers, [1930's?] (7 items)
Folder 42.339 Dance: miscellaneous illustrations, undated (6 items)
Clippings and articles about others
Folder 43.340 Rachel Crothers, undated
Folder 43.340a T.S. Eliot, 1982 Nov 21
Folder 43.341 L.K. Elmhirst obituary, 1974
Folder 43.342 Horsley Gantt, 1980-1987 (7 items)
Folder 43.343 Eugene O'Neill, 1935 (1 item)
Unused Postcards
Folder 43.344 Russian trip, 1930 (43 items)
Folder 43.345 Russian trip, 1930 (23 items)
Folder 43.346 Russian trip, 1930 (35 items)
Folder 43.347 European trip: England, 1934 (2 items)
Folder 43.348 European trip: Paris?, [1934?] (4 items)
Miscellaneous printed materials
Folder 43.349 No parasan = They shall not pass, 1937 (song)
Folder 43.349a Theatre materials from Prague, 1927 (3 volumes)
Folder 43.349b Tvorcheskii Teatr by Kerzhentsev, 1923 (1 volume)

SERIES IV. INSTITUTIONAL and ORGANIZATIONAL MATERIALS, 1923-1969

Harvard University/Radcliffe College
Folder 44.350 English 39: HF's notes and essays, 1923 Fall
Folder 44.351 47 Workshop: miscellaneous notes of HF's, 1923
Vassar College
Folder 44.352 Drama/English departmental reports and memos, 1926-1935
Folder 44.353 Drama course outlines/syllabi, 1927-1937
Folder 44.354 Drama course exam questions/ paper assignments, 1930-1935
Folder 44.355 Drama course student notes, 1939
Folder 45.356 Grade sheets for English 270, English 370, 1933 (RESTRICTED)
Folder 46.357 English 270: Elizabeth Dix (VC 1936): scrapbook with class notes and theater clippings/programs, 1934-1935
Folder 46.358 [English 370?]: Elizabeth Dix (VC 1936): notebook on design theory in theater and arts in general, 1935-1936
Folder 46.359 English 105: Katherine Dain (VC 1940): "George Pierce Baker and the 47 Workshop," , 1936-1937
Folder 47.360 Margaret Levi (VC 1935): Scrapbook with theater clippings for the period and her commentary, 1934-1935
Smith College
Folder 48.362 Department of Theater meeting minutes and miscellaneous reports, [1948-1950]
Folder 48.363 Miscellaneous course outlines, assignments, discussion outlines, exam questions, [1947-1951]
Folder 48.364 Miscellaneous course notes/outlines: Doris Abramson?, [circa 1950]
Folder 48.365 List of drama students, classes of 1943-1954, 1969
Miscellaneous
Folder 48.361 Federal Theater Project: meeting minutes and miscellaneous reports, [1935-1939] (all but 8-9 October 1935 are photocopies)
Folder 48.366 Iowa Summer Session: "Theater and Society" course outline, 1945
Folder 48.367 Dartington Hall: notes on the theater session, 1950 Summer

SERIES V. PRODUCTION SCRIPTS/MATERIALS, circa 1925-1953

Vassar Experimental Theatre
Folder 49.368 All College Revue, circa 1925
Folder 49.369 Man and the Masses, by Ernst Toller, 1930 Spring
Folder 49.370 Drama of Lights, by Paolo Buzzi; Alteration of Character, by Arnaldo Corradini and Bruno Corra, 1931-1932 (Esther Porter's (VC 1932) copy)
Folder 49.371 Not for Us Alone, [acting versions of Greek mimes], by Hallie Flanagan and Philip Davis, circa 1932
Folder 49.372 Production notes for Antony and Cleopatra, 1934 Dec
Folder 49.373 Question Before the House, by Doris Yankauer (VC 1935) and Herb Mayer, [1935?] (fragment)
Folder 49.374 Come Out Into the Sun: Tentative rehearsal schedule, 1935 Aug
Folder 49.375 Miscellaneous scripts [Greek drama], 1936-1937 (6 items)
Folder 49.376 Plan for mime sequence, undated (1 TS; 1 TS carbon)
Federal Summer Theatre at Vassar,
Folder 50.377 General information about program, undated
Folder 50.378 Lists of personnel, undated
Folder 50.379 Schedules, undated
Folder 50.380 How Long Brethren (July 10): General information, undated
Folder 50.381 One-third of the Nation (July 29-31): Ticket information, undated
Folder 50.382 Lists of electrical equipment, undated
Folder 50.383 Invoices, undated
Folder 50.384 Transportation reimbursement forms, undated
Federal Theatre Project, [193?]
Folder 51.385 [Federal Theatre Project?]: Secret Weapon, by Herbert Barr Lutz, undated (TS)
Smith College, [1944-1945,
Folder 51.386 Yes Is for a Very Young Man, by Gertrude Stein, 1944-1945 (mimeograph of TS with notes by HFD)
Folder 51.387 The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlow, 1945 Fall (mimeograph)
Folder 51.388 Heritage - A Play in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Smith College, 1953 Jun

SERIES VI. SCRAPBOOK, 1907-1911

Folder 52.389 Scrapbook of Hallie Mae Ferguson at Grinnell College, 1907-1911

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL, circa 1890 - circa 1982

Professional
Folder 53.390 Grinnell College: Murray Flanagan, 1906 (1 photo)
Folder 53.391 Grinnell College: Drama Department: "Romeo Juliet,", 1925 (2 photos)
Folder 53.392 Vassar College: Drama Department: Lester and Philena Lang, undated (3 photos)
Folder 53.393 Vassar College: Drama Department: Nikander and Kay Strelsky, Eve and Harry St. John Williams, HFD, circa 1930 (2 copies)
Folder 53.394 Russian Theatre, circa 1930 (45 photos)
Folder 53.395 Travel photos: Russia, 1930 (12 photos)
Folder 53.396 Travel photos: Europe, 1926 Dec (1 photo; 1 postcard)
Folder 53.397 Travel photos: Europe, 1934 May (1 photo; 1 postcard)
Folder 53.398 Federal Theatre Project: "Murder in the Cathedral,", 1936 (1 photo from magazine)
Folder 53.399 Federal Theatre Project: "Triple-A Plowed Under,", 1936 (10 photos)
Folder 53.400 Dance: Miscellaneous, undated (5 photos)
Folder 53.401 Smith College: Hallie Flanagan Davis, 1942-1949 (photocopies of 11 photographs from the Smith College Archives)
Folder 53.402 Smith College: Exhibit in Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, circa 1982 (12 photos)
Folder 53.403 Miscellaneous non-family individuals, undated (2 photos: 1 sketch)
Family
Folder 54.404 Hallie Flanagan Davis, [circa 1890-1894] (31 photos)
Folder 54.405 Hallie Flanagan Davis Grave site, 1969 (2 photos)
Folder 54.406 [William J. Fischer?], [1906?] (1 photo)
Folder 54.407 Unidentified early), undated (1 photo)
Folder 54.408 Ferguson House Grinnell, 1952 (2 photos)
Folder 54.409 Murray Flanagan with family, undated (4 photos)
Folder 54.410 Photograph album, [circa 1914-1921]
Folder 54.411 Jack and Frederic Flanagan, undated (8 photos)
Folder 54.412 Philip Davis and children, [1929-1938] (12 photos)

SERIES VIII. AUDIO RECORDINGS and TRANSCRIPTS, 1967-1985

Interviews by Joanne Bentley
Folder 55.414 Relatives - Kenneth Ferguson, 1979-1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.415 Relatives - Jack Davis, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.416 Classmates (high school) - George Clifton, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.417 Students (Grinnell) - Bernard Craven, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.418 Students (Grinnell) - Howard Wicks, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.419 Students (Vassar) - Anne Oliver Bassage, VC 1935, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.420 Students (Vassar) - Barbara Gratwick, VC 1928, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.421 Students (Vassar) - Jerry Harvey Guthrie, VC 1924, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.422 Students (Vassar) - Kay Hocking, VC 1929, 1979 (TRS)
Folder 55.423 Students (Vassar) - Mary Crapo Hyde, VC 1934, [198?] (TRS)
Folder 55.424 Students (Vassar) - Esther Porter Lane, VC 1932, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.425 Students (Vassar) - Jane Whitebread Levin, VC 1936 and Muriel Fox White, VC 1935, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.426 Students (Vassar) - Mary McCarthy, VC 1933, 1982 (TRS)
Folder 55.427 Students (Vassar) - Harriet Meyer, VC 1931, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.428 Students (Vassar) - Eleanor Phelps, VC 1928, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.429 Students (Vassar) - Claudia Hatch Stearns, VC 1929, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.430 Students (Vassar) - Mary St. John Villard, VC 1934, 1979 (TRS)
Folder 55.431 Students (Vassar) - Dorothy Wallace, VC 1933, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.432 Students (Smith) - Doris Abramson, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.433 Students (Smith) - Robert Baron, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 55.434 Students (Smith) - Ted Kazanoff, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.435 Colleagues and friends - Daniel Aaron, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.436 Colleagues and friends - Philip Barber, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.437 Colleagues and friends - Howard Bay and Howard Bolton, 1980, 1984 (TRS)
Folder 56.438 Colleagues and friends - George Dowell, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.439 Colleagues and friends - Rosamond Gilder and Josephine Gleason, 1982 (TRS)
Folder 56.440 Colleagues and friends - Suzanne Johnston, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.441 Colleagues and friends - George Kondolf, 1984 (TRS)
Folder 56.442 Colleagues and friends - Gordon Post, [198?] (TRS)
Folder 56.443 Colleagues and friends - Phelps and Ted Riley, 1980, 1982 (TRS)
Folder 56.444 Colleagues and friends - Irwin Rubenstein, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.445 Colleagues and friends - Bob Schnitzer, 1979 (TRS)
Folder 56.446 Colleagues and friends - Henry and Mark Schubart, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.447 Colleagues and friends - Denton Snyder, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.448 Colleagues and friends - Kay Strelsky, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.449 Colleagues and friends - Lauralee and Day Tuttle, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.450 Colleagues and friends - Ruth and Vernon Venable, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.451 Colleagues and friends - Patsy and Bill Walsh, 1980 (TRS)
Folder 56.452 Colleagues and friends - Halsted Welles, 1985 (TRS)
Interviews by George Mason University
Folder 55.413 Relatives - Eric Bentley, 1976 (2 tapes)
Folder 56.453 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - William Farnsworth, 1977 (TRS)
Folder 56.454 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Bud Fishel, undated (TRS)
Folder 56.455 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Rosamond Gilder, undated (TRS)
Folder 56.456 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Gordon Graham, undated (TRS)
Folder 56.457 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Paul Green, 1975 (TRS)
Folder 56.458 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - John Houseman, 1976 (TRS)
Folder 56.459 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - George Izenour, [1977?] (TRS)
Folder 57.460 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - George Kondolf, 1976 (TRS)
Folder 57.461 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Esther Porter Lane, 1976 (TRS)
Folder 57.462 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Emmet Lavery, 1977 (TRS)
Folder 57.463 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Kate Lawson, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.464 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Ned Lehac, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.465 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Norman Lloyd, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.466 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Dorothea Lynch, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.467 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - J. Howard Miller, 1976 (TRS)
Folder 57.468 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Irwin Rubinstein, 1977 (TRS)
Folder 57.469 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Arnold Sundgaard, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.470 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Converse Tyler, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.471 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Halsted Welles, 1975 (TRS)
Folder 57.472 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Duncan Whiteside, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.473 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Miscellaneous excerpts, undated (TRS)
Folder 57.474 Colleagues and friends (Federal Theatre Project) - Florence Kerr, 1967 (TRS)

SERIES IX. FAMILY HISTORY and BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, circa 1916-1980

HFD: General, non-printed material
Folder 58.475 List of materials at the University of North Carolina, undated
Folder 58.476 List of materials in the Smith College Archives, undated
Folder 58.477 General biographical materials, undated (for clippings see box 28)
Folder 58.478 Contract with Coward-McCann for Shifting Scenes, 1928
Folder 58.479 Contract with Duell, Sloane and Pearce, Inc. for Arena, 1939
Folder 58.480 Will and financial material, 1947-1957
Folder 58.481 Letters to children regarding disposal of her possessions, 1947 Jan 4 (photocopy)
Folder 59.505 Biographical piece written for "Dr. Wheelis,", 1948 Aug (TS, annotated by Shirley Rich Krohn)
HFD: Unpublished biographical essays/articles
Folder 58.482 Speech given upon HFD's departure from Vassar, given by Grace M. Macurdy, 1942 (TS carbon)
Folder 58.483 Madam Director, by Dorothy Colman Wallace, 1938 (TS)
Folder 58.484 Hallie Flanagan, by Myra Page, 1940s-1950s (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.485 Memorial Service, 1969 Sep 16 (TS)
Folder 58.486 Hallie Flanagan--the Smith Years, by Janet Clarke, 1975 (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.487 Paper by Linda Scaporrotti, 1975 (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.488 Article by Kay Hocking, VC 1929 [written for Vassar Quarterly but never published], 1979 (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.489 Hallie Flanagan, by Alice Tomlinson, [197?] (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.490 Hallie Flanagan Davis--the Smith Years-- Portrait of the Artist as Educator, by Helen Chinoy, 1970s-1980s (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.491 Hallie Flanagan, by Helen Krich Chinoy, 1970s-1980s (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.492 Hallie Flanagan--Her Role in American Theatre, 1924-1936, by Barbara Mendoza, 1970s-1980s (photocopy of TS; excerpts)
Folder 58.493 A Quest for Perfection, by Howard Wicks, circa 1980 (photocopy of TS)
Folder 58.494 Unidentified excerpts, undated (photocopy)
Folder 57.474a Materials received by Joanne Bentley from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after filing a FOIA request, undated
Family History
Folder 59.495 Ferguson Family: New Hampshire; Madison County, IL, undated
Folder 59.496 Ferguson Family: Macoupin County, IL (Brighton); St. Louis, MO, undated
Folder 59.497 Ferguson Family: Omaha, NB; Redfield, SD, undated
Folder 59.498 Ferguson Family: Poweshiek County, IA (Sonora); Grinnell, IA, undated
Folder 59.499 Ferguson Family: La Grange, IL; Leffler Electric System, undated
Folder 59.500 Fischer Family, undated
Folder 59.501 John Murray Flanagan, undated
Folder 59.502 Philip Haldane Davis, undated
Folder 59.503 Philip Haldane Davis - Material from notebook, circa 1916-1940
Folder 59.504 Frederic F. Flanagan, undated
Folder 59.505 Joanne Davis Bentley, undated

Series X. 2025 ADDITION, 1925-1976

Folder 92.506 Clippings - Articles about Hallie Flanagan and the Vassar Experimental Theater, 1928-1973
Folder 92.507 Clippings - Articles by Hallie Flanagan, 1927-1939
Folder 92.508 Federal Summer Theatre - Correspondence and planning, 1937
Folder 92.509 Federal Summer Theatre - "First Federal Summer Theatre…A Report", [1937?]
Folder 92.510 Federal Theatre Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 2 and 5, 1937
Folder 92.511 Federal Theatre Project - "A Review of the Productivity and Service of the Play Bureau", 1936
Folder 92.512 Federal Theatre Project - "Federal Theatre Productions by American Playwrights", undated
Folder 92.513 Federal Theatre Project - Play lists and synopses, 1936-1938
Folder 92.514 Federal Theatre Project - "What Was Federal Theatre?" by Hallie Flanagan, undated
Folder 92.515 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence, 1932-1934
Folder 92.516 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence, 1935-1938, undated
Folder 92.517 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence re: appointment of director of the Federal Theatre Program, 1935 Jul
Folder 92.518 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence re: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1925-1932
Folder 92.519 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence to/from MacCracken, Henry Noble, 1932-1941
Folder 92.520 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence to/from Theatre Arts Monthly, 1926-1933
Folder 92.521 Flanagan, Hallie - Correspondence to/from Theatre Guild Magazine, 1931-1935
Folder 92.522 Flanagan, Hallie - "Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Anglo-American Institute of the First Moscow University, 1934 Nov
Folder 92.523 Flanagan, Hallie - Vassar College, course planning, 1925-1939
Folder 92.524 Flanagan, Hallie - Vassar College, course planning, exams, 1930-1935
Folder 92.525 Flanagan, Hallie - Vassar College, proposal for a major in Drama, 1937
Folder 92.526 Mendoza, Barbara - Correspondence, 1973-1976
Folder 92.527 Mendoza, Barbara - Correspondence, Grinnell College, 1973-1974
Folder 92.528 Mendoza, Barbara - "Dynamo" by Hallie Flanagan, annotated, circa 1975 [photocopy]
Folder 92.529 Mendoza, Barbara - Federal Theatre project ephemera, 1975
Folder 92.530 Mendoza, Barbara - "Hallie Flanagan: Her Role in American Theatre, 1924-1935," abstract, circa 1973
Folder 92.531 Mendoza, Barbara - "Hallie Flanagan: and the Vassar Experimental Theatre" by Ellen Brent Senay Jones, annotated, circa 1973 [photocopy]
Folder 92.532 Mendoza, Barbara - Notes, circa 1973
Folder 92.533 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Letters from Hallie Flanagan to the V.E.T., 1934 Feb-May
Folder 92.534 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Negatives, undated
Folders 92.535-92.536 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Photographs, undated
Folder 92.537 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Reference photographs and notes, undated
Folder 92.538 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Plays list, 1925-1935
Folder 92.539 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Productions, "Antony and Cleopatra", 1934-1974
Folder 92.540 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Program, "The Marriage Proposal", 1928 Mar 3
Folder 92.541 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Script, "Blocks" by Molly Day Thacher, 1933
Folder 92.542 Vassar Experimental Theatre - Script, "The Dream of Vasav Adatta," translated by A. G. Shirreff and Panna Lall, 1933
Folder 92.543 Vassar Experimental Theatre - "Summer Session in the Theatre", 1935 Jun-Aug

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Abstract

Papers primarily concerning Flanagan's teaching and theater activities at Vassar College and her work with the Federal Theater Project. Includes correspondence, curriculum materials, scripts and other play records, reports, speeches, programs, playbills, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings.

Member of
Finding Aid Collection
Finding Aid Date
Dates: circa 1890-1988
Document Types
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Playbills
Photographs
Printed ephemera
Scrapbooks
Scripts
Names
MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), 1880-1970
Lenninger, August
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Sarton, May, 1912-1995
Places
Europe--Description and travel
Subject (Topical)
Performing arts--New York (N.Y.)
Women in the theater
College theater--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie
Workers' theater--New York (N.Y.)
Theater--Soviet Union
Theater--United States
Drama--Study and teaching
Federal aid to the theater
Experimental theatre
Amateur theater
Women college teachers
Theater, Drama and Film
Vassar College
Organization
Federal Theater Project
Vassar College--Faculty
Vassar College--Students
Vassar College--Vassar Experimental Theatre
Arteff Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Smith College. Department of Theatre
Collection Title
Hallie Flanagan Papers
Creator
Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969