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Ithaca Festival planning records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 4-3-1534

Scope and content

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to the planning and fundraising for an expansion in scope of the Ithaca Festival, including planning for the construction of a new theater building. Correspondents include Walter J. Wiggins, Richard M. Ramin, Walter G. Bruska, and others. Also included is a report by Alvin H. Reiss on the state of the Ithaca Festival at the time.

Dates

  • 1965-1966.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Ithaca Festival (previously Summer-Ithaca and the Ithaca Festival of the Classics) incorporated in 1964 as a center for the performing arts in Ithaca and Tompkins County, New York.

Biographical / Historical

Walter G. Bruska was the director of the Development Office at Cornell University. Walter J. Wiggins was a partner in the local law firm of Wiggins, Tsapis and Golder, and chairman of the fundraising campaign for the Ithaca Festival.

Extent

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

Related Materials

See also: Ithaca Festival records, #2593.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
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Script of description
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Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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