Federal Theatre Project Collection Span: 1932-1943 Bulk: 1935-1938 English collection 522 ft. 43 file cabinets boxes An effort of the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Federal Theatre Project was designed to reemploy theater workers on public relief; to conserve and develop the skills of administrators, clerical workers, writers, set and costume designers, directors, actors and actresses, technicians, and photographers; and to bring a theater which would be national in scope and regional in emphasis to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances. It functioned from 1935 to 1939, when its funding was terminated. In that brief period, it was responsible for some of the most innovative staging of its time. Correspondence, memoranda, play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals, publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, charts, costume and set designs, blue-prints, posters, addressograph plates, photographs, negatives, slides, playbills, and other records. No Federal Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress Federal Theatre Project Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site. Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply. Theater Theatrical Design Radio/Television Women in the Performing Arts Flanagan, Hallie U.S. Work Projects Administration Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb Music Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu995001 IHAS 120828 loc.natlib.scdb.200033834