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Kurtz Myers papers

Title
Kurtz Myers papers, 1929-1937.
Author
Myers, Kurtz.

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Mixed materialSupervised use *T-Mss 1998-017Offsite

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Description
1 box.
Summary
The collection consists of correspondence: letters and autographs from people prominent in the performing arts who responded to Myers letters and a pencil drawing of Myers' head.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Autographs.
Note
  • Myers also gave the Library his collection of scrapbooks of clippings documenting the Detroit stage in the early 1930s (MWEZ 1752, 1772-3, 1779-80) as well as many Detroit theater programs, most now bound, (MWEZ 16,196-203 and 16,577) and programs in German from festivals in Germany and Austria, 1937-1938 (MWEZ 1907).
Access (note)
  • Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Source (note)
  • Kurtz Myers
Biography (note)
  • Kurtz Myers was chief of the Music and Drama Department of the Detroit Public Library, 1954-1969. He began work there in 1936 and spent the summers of 1937 and 1939 working at the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
*T-Mss 1998-017
OCLC
NYPW98-A259
Author
Myers, Kurtz.
Title
Kurtz Myers papers, 1929-1937.
Restricted Access
Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
Biography
Kurtz Myers was chief of the Music and Drama Department of the Detroit Public Library, 1954-1969. He began work there in 1936 and spent the summers of 1937 and 1939 working at the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library.
Source
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Research Call Number
*T-Mss 1998-017
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