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Series I: Correspondence
 1913-1959 [bulk 1938-1943]
 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)

Consists of correspondence, mostly to and from Irene Lewisohn, concerning the Neighborhood Playhouse, her work with relief and refugee organizations, and personal matters. Original folder titles are maintained and the series is presented in received, alphabetical order.

b. 1 f. 1
A -- Organizations (Miscellaneous)
 1941-1943
b. 1 f. 2
Abbey, Denise -- Secretary Correspondence
 1942-1943
b. 1 f. 3
American Friends Service Committee -- Latin American Refugee Fund
 1940-1943
b. 1 f. 4
American Red Cross
 1942-1943
b. 1 f. 5
Arthur, Helen Letter to Alice and Jane Lewisohn
 1927 April 8
b. 1 f. 6
B -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1943
b. 1 f. 7
Benies, Henriette
 1938-1943
b. 1 f. 8
Bunnage
 1941-1942
b. 1 f. 9
C -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1943
b. 1 f. 10
Christmas Thanks Received
 1942-1943
b. 1 f. 11
Closing -- Letters from Friends of Neighborhood Playhouse
 1924-1927
b. 1 f. 12
Committee to Defend America By Aiding the Allies
 1940-1941
b. 1 f. 13
Contributions -- Personal -- Private Requests
 1940-1943
b. 1 f. 14
Correspondence -- Irene Lewisohn, Agnes Morgan, Alice Lewisohn, Helen Arthur
 1926-1927
b. 2 f. 1
Correspondence
 1927
b. 2 f. 2
Correspondence
 1934-1942
b. 2 f. 3
D -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1942
b. 2 f. 4
David, Constantin
 1940-1941
b. 2 f. 5
Dominican Republic Settlement Association
 1940-1943
b. 2 f. 6
E -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1943
b. 2 f. 7
E -- Neighborhood Playhouse Records
 1940
b. 2 f. 8
Exhibits
 1941-1942
b. 2 f. 9
F -- Irene Lewisohn
 1942-1943
b. 2 f. 10
F -- Organizations (Miscellaneous)
 1942-1943
b. 2 f. 11
F -- Neighborhood Playhouse Records
 1941-1943
b. 2 f. 12
Fraenkel Correspondence
 1938-1941
b. 2 f. 13
G -- Irene Lewisohn
 1941-1942
b. 2 f. 14
G -- Neighborhood Playhouse Records
 1940-1943
b. 2 f. 15
G -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1941
b. 2 f. 16
Guilbert, Yvette
 1940-1943
b. 2 f. 17
H -- Irene Lewisohn
 1941-1944
b. 2 f. 18
H -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1942
b. 2 f. 19
Hamori, Dr. Ladislas
 1940-1942
b. 2 f. 20
Herzka -- Dr. Elsa (Freistadt)
 1939-1941
b. 2 f. 21
Hunt
 1941
b. 2 f. 22
Huppert, Josephine
 1939-1941
b. 2 f. 23
I -- Irene Lewisohn
 1940-1942
b. 2 f. 24
I -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1942
b. 3 f. 1
J -- Irene Lewisohn
 1942-1943
b. 3 f. 2
J -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1943
b. 3 f. 3
K -- Irene Lewisohn
 1940-1943
b. 3 f. 4
K -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1940-1942
b. 3 f. 5
K -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 circa 1940s
b. 3 f. 6
Keene Valley, New York
 1940
b. 3 f. 7
L -- Irene Lewisohn
 1941-1943
b. 3 f. 8
L -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1943
b. 3 f. 9
Lemberger, Klaere
 1939-1941
b. 3 f. 10
Lists of Names and Addresses
 1939-1943
b. 3 f. 11
Luna, M. Rodriguez -- Related Correspondence
 1941-1943
b. 3 f. 12
Luncheon Correspondence, Photographs
 1940
b. 3 f. 13
Miscellaneous Correspondence
 1940-1942
b. 3 f. 14
Miscellaneous Correspondence
 1940-1943
b. 3 f. 15
M -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1943
b. 3 f. 16
Mc -- Irene Lewisohn
 1939-1940
b. 3 f. 17
N -- Irene Lewisohn
 1941-1942
b. 3 f. 18
N -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1940
b. 3 f. 19
N -- Organizations (Miscellaneous)
 1941-1942
b. 3 f. 20
National Committee on Housing Emergency
 1942
b. 3 f. 21
National Morale, Committee For
 1941-1942
b. 3 f. 22
Narodny, Ivan
 1932, 1942
b. 3 f. 23
Narodny
 1939-1941
b. 4 f. 1
Neighborhood Playhouse Design and Construction Correspondence and Plans
 1913-1914
b. 4 f. 2
New York Public Library Correspondence
 1941, 1953-1958
b. 4 f. 3
O -- Irene Lewisohn
 1939-1942
b. 4 f. 4
O -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1942-1943
b. 4 f. 5
Organizations -- Political, etc
 1940-1941
b. 4 f. 6
P -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1942
b. 4 f. 7
P -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1941-1943
b. 4 f. 8
Personal
 1941
b. 4 f. 9
Personal -- Legal
 1939-1942
b. 4 f. 10
Personal -- Membership Cards
 1940-1943
b. 4 f. 11
Personal -- Social
 1940-1943
b. 4 f. 12
R -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1940-1943
b. 4 f. 13
R -- Miscellaneous Organizations -- National Refugee Service
 1940-1943
b. 4 f. 14
Refugee Scholars From Spain
 1940
b. 4 f. 15
Russian War Relief
 1941-1942
b. 5 f. 1
S -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1940-1943
b. 5 f. 2
S -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1943
b. 5 f. 3
Schindler, Kurt -- Book Correspondence, Notes, Advertisements
 1940-1942
b. 5 f. 4
Spanish Child Welfare Association
 1947
b. 5 f. 5
Spanish Relief -- Organizations
 1940-1942
b. 5 f. 6
Sternbach, Viktor
 1940-1943
b. 5 f. 7
T -- Miscellaneous (Organizations File)
 1941-1942
b. 5 f. 8
U -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1943
b. 5 f. 9
Union For Democratic Action (Dr. Frank Kingdon) Niebuhr
 1942
b. 5 f. 10
United China Relief
 1941-1942
b. 5 f. 11
United Service Organizations
 1941-1942
b. 5 f. 12
Untitled Letter
 circa 1940s
b. 5 f. 13
V -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 circa 1940s
b. 5 f. 14
Various Correspondence
 1937-1959
b. 5 f. 15
Vocational Service For Juniors
 1940-1943
b. 5 f. 16
W -- Miscellaneous (Organization File)
 1942-1943
b. 5 f. 17
Washington D.C
 1940-1941
b. 5 f. 18
Writings and Letters, Alice and Irene Lewisohn
 1922-1927
b. 6 f. 1
World Center For Women's Archives, Inc
 1940
b. 6 f. 2
XYZ -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1943
b. 6 f. 3
XYZ -- Miscellaneous Organizations
 1940-1942
Series II: Irene and Alice Lewisohn's Personal Papers and Writings
 1897-1957
 0.42 linear feet (1 box)

Consists of personal papers, photographs, and writings by Irene and Alice Lewisohn. Order is chronological.

b. 14 f. 1
Yvette Guilbert Programs, Art Book, Photograph
 1897-1932
b. 6 f. 4
Festival Dancing and Other Articles, Related Correspondence
 1913-1940
b. 6 f. 5
"Expression Through Movement"
 1918
b. 6 f. 6
Photographs of the Lewisohns
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 6 f. 7
Lewisohn Personal Finance
 1922-1925
b. 6 f. 8
El Museo Episcopal De Vich -- Pamphlet
 1926
b. 6 f. 9
Talk Draft
 circa 1920s
b. 6 f. 10
Untitled Drafts
 circa 1920s
b. 6 f. 11
Various Irene Lewisohn Writings
 1930-1939
b. 6 f. 12
"Behind the Magic Curtain" Article
 1931
b. 6 f. 13
Refugee Information
 1939-1943
b. 6 f. 14
Lewisohn Personal Finance
 1940-1943
b. 6 f. 15
American School of the Air
 1941
b. 6 f. 16
Contributions -- Organizations -- Receipts
 1941-1942
b. 6 f. 17
Agencies
 circa 1941
b. 6 f. 18
Irene Lewisohn Clippings
 1944, 1957
Series III: Neighborhood Playhouse Records
 1915-1942, 2004
 1.33 linear feet (4 boxes)

Consists of material related to the running of the Neighborhood Playhouse Theater, such as minutes, financial reports, constitution and by-laws, notes, material from the 1940 exhibit at the Museum of Costume Art, and a guestbook from the theater. Order is chronological.

b. 21 f. 10
Ellen Terry Appreciation
 1915
b. 22
Guestbook
 1915-1927
b. 7 f. 1
Lecture
 1918
b. 7 f. 2
Class Notebook
 1920-1921
b. 7 f. 3
Thomas Wilfred's Color Organ
 1921-1922
b. 7 f. 4
Playhouse Letters and Reports
 1922-1923
b. 7 f. 5
Neighborhood Playhouse Notes and Financial Report
 1922-1923
b. 7 f. 6
Executive Committee Minutes
 1924-1927
b. 7 f. 7
Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre -- Correspondence
 1924
b. 7 f. 8
Neighborhood Playhouse Files
 1924-1927, 2004
b. 7 f. 9
Advisory Committee Minutes
 1925-1927
b. 7 f. 10
Related Lists
 1926
b. 7 f. 11
Habima Players Talk
 1927
b. 7 f. 12
Clippings, Notes, Playhouse Correspondence
 1929-1935
b. 7 f. 13
Notes
 circa 1920s
b. 8 f. 1
Negative of Jo Davidson Plaque From Neighborhood Playhouse Lobby
 circa 1920s
b. 8 f. 2
Introduction to Students
 circa 1920s
b. 8 f. 3
Organization Proposal Draft
 circa 1920s
b. 8 f. 4
Neighborhood Playhouse Workshop Photographs
 circa 1920s-1930s
b. 8 f. 5
Meeting -- April 11, 1930-October 27, 1930 -- Leading to Formation of Associates in 1931
 1930
b. 8 f. 6
Endless Column, The -- Correspondence and Contracts
 1930-1931
b. 8 f. 7
Notes From Various Talks Given by Irene Lewisohn and Reprints From Newspaper and Magazine Comments
 circa 1930
b. 8 f. 8
Associates -- Neighborhood Playhouse
 1931-1932
b. 8 f. 9
Reports -- Associates -- Minutes May 11, 1931-December 11, 1933
 1931-1933
b. 8 f. 10
Constitution and By-Laws of the Neighborhood Playhouse Associates, Minutes, Invitations, Correspondence
 1931-1942
b. 8 f. 11
Minutes
 1936-1937
b. 8 f. 12
Minutes -- Associates -- May 1937 to April 1938
 1937-1938, 1942
b. 8 f. 13-15
Neighborhood Playhouse Exhibit at the Museum of Costume Art
 1939-1940
b. 8 f. 16
Warehouse
 1940
b. 21 f. 11
Museum of Costume Arts Exhibition Scrapbook
 1940
Series IV: Growing Into Theatre: the Neighborhood Playhouse Story
 1941-1962
 1.67 linear feet (4 boxes)

Consists of material related to the book Growing Into Theatre: the Neighborhood Playhouse Story, written by Alice Lewisohn Crowely. This includes drafts, typescripts, and correspondence. Order is chronological.

b. 9 f. 1
Draft
 1941
b. 9 f. 2
Book Typescript
 circa 1940s
b. 9 f. 3
Second Copy Draft
 circa 1940s
b. 9 f. 4
Original Edited Manuscript
 circa 1940s
b. 9 f. 5
Alice Lewisohn -- Beginnings of Her Book
 circa 1940s
b. 9 f. 6
Manuscript I
 circa 1940s-1950s
b. 9 f. 7
Manuscript-- PP 1-50 -- 2
 circa 1940s-1950s
b. 9 f. 8
Manuscript II
 circa 1940s-1950s
b. 10 f. 1-7
Manuscript III-VI
 circa 1940s-1950s
b. 10 f. 8
Chapter 26
 circa 1940s-1950s
b. 10 f. 9
Book Materials
 1952-1960
b. 10 f. 10
Theatre Arts Books -- Correspondence
 1957-1962
b. 10 f. 11
Chapter 33
 1958
b. 10 f. 12
Book Correspondence
 1958-1959
b. 10 f. 13
Books Correspondence, Photographs, Drafts, Accounts
 1958-1960
b. 10 f. 14
Master Set Galleys
 1959
b. 11 f. 1
Master Set Page Proofs
 1959
b. 11 f. 2
Revised Page Proof
 1959
b. 11 f. 3
Appendix and Index with Edits
 circa 1959
b. 11 f. 4
Galleys Read By Mrs. Crowley
 circa 1959
b. 11 f. 5
Alice Lewisohn Crowley's Script of Neighborhood Playhouse (Grand Street) History
 circa 1950s
b. 12 f. 1
New Materials
 circa 1950s
b. 12 f. 2
Corrections
 circa 1950s
Series V: Productions
 1907-1967 [bulk 1907-1939]
 2.83 linear feet (10 boxes)

Consists of material related to productions by the Neighborhood Playhouse. While mostly photographs, this series also contains scripts, playbills and programs, correspondence, advertisements, cast notes, sheet music, and art work. Series is presented in received, chronological order

b. 14 f. 2
Miriam: A Passover Festival Photographs and Script
 1907
b. 14 f. 3
Hiawatha Photographs and Script
 1908, 1911
b. 12 f. 3
Chanukkah Script
 1909
b. 14 f. 4
Chanukkah Festival Photographs
 1909
b. 12 f. 4
Thanksgiving Festival, A Script
 1909
b. 14 f. 5
Midwinter Myth Photographs and Script
 1911
b. 12 f. 5
Pentecost Festival Notes
 1912
b. 14 f. 6
Shepherd, The Photographs
 1912
b. 12 f. 6
Pentecost Festival, Feast of Tabernacles -- Script
 1913
b. 15 f. 1
Silver Box, The Photographs
 1913
b. 15 f. 2
Farewell to Alice and Irene Lewisohn Sheet Music
 1914
b. 15 f. 3
Price of Coal Photograph
 1914
b. 12 f. 7
Proposed Ballet for 1914 -- The Shadow Garden of Shuteye Town Draft
 1914
b. 15 f. 4
Ryland Photographs
 1914
b. 15 f. 5
Womenkind Photographs
 1914
b. 15 f. 6
Captain Bassbound's Conversion Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 7
Gift of the Fairies, The Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 8
Glittering Gate, The Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 9
Jephthah's Daughter Photographs and Script
 1915
b. 12 f. 8
Maker of Dreams Photograph
 1915
b. 15 f. 10
Tethered Sheep Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 11
Thanksgiving Festival Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 12
Wild Birds Photographs
 1915
b. 15 f. 13
Great Catherine Photographs
 1916
b. 15 f. 14
Marriage Proposal, A Photograph
 1916
b. 15 f. 15
Married Woman, The Photographs
 1916
b. 15 f. 16
Night at the Inn, A Program, Artwork, Photograph
 1916
b. 15 f. 17
Petrouchka Photographs
 1916
b. 16 f. 1
With the Current Photographs
 1916
b. 16 f. 2
Queen's Enemies, The Photographs
 1916-1917
b. 16 f. 3
Karin of Koridwen, The Program, Artwork, Photographs
 1917
b. 16 f. 4
Pippa Passes Photographs
 1917
b. 16 f. 5
Sunny Morning, A Photographs
 1917
b. 12 f. 9
Festival of Pentecost, A Script Materials
 1918
b. 12 f. 10
Festival of Pentecost, A Script, Correspondence, Sheet Music
 1918
b. 12 f. 11
Corrected Copy of A Festival at the Neighborhood Playhouse
 1918
b. 16 f. 6
Festival of Tabernacles Advertisements and Photograph
 1918
b. 16 f. 7
Fortunato Photographs
 1918
b. 16 f. 8
Guibour Photographs
 1918
b. 16 f. 9
Tamura Photographs
 1918
b. 16 f. 10
Ma Mere L'Oye Photographs
 1918-1919
b. 12 f. 12
Pentecost Festival -- Manuscript and Photographs
 circa 1918
b. 16 f. 11
Eternal Megalosaurus Photograph
 1919
b. 12 f. 13
Everybody's Husband Photograph
 1919
b. 16 f. 12
Mary Broome Photographs
 1919
b. 12 f. 14
Moose, The Photographs
 1919
b. 12 f. 15
Belshatzer Photograph
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 17 f. 1
Discontented Daffodils, The Photographs and Script
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 13 f. 1
Goose Girl, The Photograph
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 17 f. 2
Grand Street Follies Photographs
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 13 f. 2
Jacob's Dream (The Dream of Jacob) Photographs
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 17 f. 3
Photo Album of Actors
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 13 f. 3
Untitled Photograph
 circa 1910s-1930s
b. 17 f. 4
Untitled Photographs
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 13 f. 4
Untitled Photographs, Postcard
 circa 1910s-1930s
b. 17 f. 5
Untitled Illustrations
 circa 1910s-1920s
b. 17 f. 6
Beautiful Sabine Women Photographs
 1920
b. 18 f. 1
Boutique Fantasque, La Photographs
 1920
b. 13 f. 5
Mob, The Photograph and Advertisement
 1920
b. 18 f. 2
Whispering Well, The Photographs
 1920
b. 18 f. 3
Great Adventure, The Photographs
 1921
b. 18 f. 4
Harlequinade, The Photographs
 1921
b. 18 f. 5
Madras House, The Photographs
 1921
b. 13 f. 6
Productions -- Bitter Oleander, Bodas De Sangre -- Box Office, Press Lists, Correspondence, Advertisements, Cast Lists
 1921-1935
b. 18 f. 6
Royal Fanidango, The Photographs
 1921
b. 18 f. 7
Green Rino, The Photographs
 1922
b. 18 f. 8
Makers of Light Photographs
 1922
b. 13 f. 7
S.S. Tenacity, The and Monkey's Paw, The Programs
 1922
b. 18 f. 9
Salut Au Monde Photographs and Sheet Music
 1922
b. 18 f. 10
Junior Players
 1922-1930
b. 19 f. 1
Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, The Photographs and Program
 1923
b. 19 f. 2
This Fine Pretty World Photographs and Program
 1923
b. 19 f. 3
Buffon Photographs and Program
 1923-1924
b. 19 f. 4
Arab Fantasia, An Photographs
 1924
b. 19 f. 5
Dance Recital by Nyota Inyoka Advertisment
 1924
b. 19 f. 6
Grand Street Follies Photographs
 1924
b. 13 f. 8
Time is a Dream Advertisment
 1924
b. 13 f. 9
Dybuk
 1924-1925, 1947-1967
b. 19 f. 7
Little Clay Cart, The Photographs and Program
 1924-1925
b. 13 f. 10
Critic, The Photographs
 1925
b. 19 f. 8
Dybbuk, The Photographs and Program
 1925
b. 19 f. 9
Exiles Photographs
 1925
b. 19 f. 10
Grand Street Follies Photographs and Playbill
 1925
b. 13 f. 11
Legend of the Dance Photographs
 1925
b. 19 f. 11
Sooner and Later Photographs
 1925
b. 19 f. 12
Apothecary, The Photographs
 1926
b. 13 f. 12
Burmese Pwe, A Photographs
 1926
b. 13 f. 13
Burmese Pwe, A Script
 circa 1926
b. 20 f. 1
Grand Street Follies Photographs
 1926
b. 20 f. 2
Kuan Yin Photographs
 1926
b. 20 f. 3
Lion Tamer, The Photographs
 1926
b. 20 f. 4
Romantic Young Lady, The Photographs
 1926
b. 20 f. 5
White Peacock, The and Commedia Dell'Arte Photographs and Playbill
 1926-1927
b. 20 f. 6
Fleur Et Blanchefleur Photographs
 1927
b. 20 f. 7
Grand Street Follies Photographs, Playbill, Notes to the Cast
 1927
b. 13 f. 14
Mascaiada Photograph
 1927
b. 20 f. 8
Pinwheel Photographs
 1927
b. 20 f. 9
Ritornelle Photographs
 1927
b. 20 f. 10
Fetes Photograph
 1928
b. 20 f. 11
Israel Photographs, Advertisement, Rehearsal Schedule
 1928
b. 13 f. 15
Prince Igor Photographs
 1928
b. 20 f. 12
Basque Photograph and Artwork
 1929
b. 21 f. 1
Ein Heldenleben Photographs and Program
 1929
b. 21 f. 2
Portraits
 1929-1949
b. 13 f. 16
Festivals, The -- Manuscript
 circa 1920s
b. 13 f. 17
Spring Festival Notes
 circa 1920s
b. 13 f. 18
Spirit of the Festivals, The
 circa 1920s
b. 13 f. 19
Three Impressions of Spring -- Preface, Prologue, Manuscript of Three Scenes
 circa 1920s
b. 21 f. 3
Unknown Quantity, The Photograph
 circa 1920s
b. 21 f. 4
Untitled Illustrations
 circa 1920s
b. 13 f. 20
Untitled Notes on a Festival
 circa 1920s
b. 13 f. 21
Untitled Production Script
 circa 1920s
b. 21 f. 5
Temple of Mysteries, The Artwork
 circa 1920s-1930s
b. 13 f. 22
Legend of the Golem, The Scenario
 1930
b. 13 f. 23
New Year's in New York Photographs
 1930
b. 13 f. 24
Chamber Music, The Photographs, Clippings
 1931
b. 21 f. 6
Junior Productions Mummers Revel and Masque of the Apple Photographs and Advertisement
 1931
b. 21 f. 7
Symphonic Music with Stage Presentation Photographs, Program, Library of Congress Letter
 1931
b. 21 f. 8
Kolyada Photograph
 1932
b. 21 f. 9
Bitter Oleander Photograph
 circa 1935
b. 13 f. 25
Music Commissioned for Special Scenarios Presented by The Neighborhood Playhouse
 circa 1939