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J. Albert Wood, Jr. Dramatic Club and campus photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 37-5-3274

Scope and content

Photographs, programs, and film and glass plate negatives of Dramatic Club productions, including "Turtle Dove," February, 1928; G.B. Shaw's "The Admirable Bashville," March, 1928; "The Merry Wives of Windsor," April, 1928; "Really...!?!," May, 1928; Pirandello's "Right You Are! (If You Think So)," June, 1928; Ibsen's "Enemy of the People," 1934: Noel Coward's "Private Lives," 1934; "H.M.S. Pinafore"; "The Chief Thing; Four Plays"; "Jane Wogan"; "Spring"; "Number Ten"; "Sparking"; "The Mikado"; "Crabbed Youth and Age"; "Seven Keys to Baldpate"; "The Critic"; "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"; "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; "School of Princesses"; "Carnival"; "Traffic Signals"; Moliè€re's "Les Femmes Savant"; and other plays. Also includes program and photographs from the Women's Dramatic Club production of "Alice in Wonderland", March 1928 and British version of Alice in Wonderland: French's Fairy and Home Plays No. 24.

Scope and content

Also negatives (film and glass) and prints of campus scenes and buildings, Cornell band, Spring Day 1926 and negatives (film and glass) and prints of Seal & Serpent fraternity, notably picture of the construction of the Seal & Serpent house in 1927.

Dates

  • 1926-1934.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

James Albert Wood, Jr. received a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1928 and a Ph.D. in 1935. During both times he was active in the Dramatic Club as an electrician. He also took photographs of sets and productions.

Extent

.3 cubic feet. (.3 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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