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Finding Aid for the Hubert Creekmore Collection (MUM01790) University of Mississippi eGrove Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids Library November 2020 Finding Aid for the Hubert Creekmore Collection (MUM01790) Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids Recommended Citation Hubert Creekmore Collection (MUM01790), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi This Finding Aid is brought to you for free and open access by the Library at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University of Mississippi Libraries Finding Aid for the Hubert Creekmore Collection MUM01790 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY INFORMATION Summary Information Repository University of Mississippi Libraries Biographical Note Creator - Creator Scope and Content Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966 Arrangement Title Administrative Information Hubert Creekmore Collection Related Materials ID Controlled Access Headings MUM01790 Collection Inventory Date Series I: Professional 1928-2002 Correspondence Extent Series II: Personal 3.0 Linear feet (6 boxes) Correspondence Series III: Playbills Language of Materials English Series IV: Music Programs Abstract Collection contains playbills, programs, and Series V: Miscellaneous correspondence related to the life and work of author, artist, and editor Hubert Creekmore. Items were created 1928-2002. Preferred Citation Hubert Creekmore Collection (MUM01790), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi Return to Table of Contents » BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Hiram Hubert Creekmore, a native of Water Valley, Mississippi and cousin (by marriage) to Eudora Welty, was a novelist, poet, critic, editor, translator and photographer. Born into a distinguished and affluent Southern family, Creekmore's artistic work is thought to illustrate ideals much different from the conservative Southern values with which he was raised. Return to Table of Contents » SCOPE AND CONTENT Collection contains playbills, programs, and correspondence related to the life and work of novelist, poet and critic Hubert Creekmore. Items were created 1928-2002. Return to Table of Contents » ARRANGEMENT This collection is arranged in five series: Series I: Professional Correspondence Series II: Personal Correspondence Series III: Playbills Series IV: Music Series V: Miscellaneous Return to Table of Contents » ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Publication Information University of Mississippi Libraries March 2013 Access Restrictions The Hubert Creekmore Collection is open for research. Copyright Restrictions The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. Additions No further additions are expected to this collection. Acquisition Information Gift of Mary Alice Welty and Elizabeth Welty Thompson Processing Information Collection processed by Lauren Rogers, 2013. Finding aid created by Kathryn Michaelis, March 2013. Return to Table of Contents » RELATED MATERIALS Related Materials at the University of Mississippi Collections Related to Hubert Creekmore Eudora Welty Small Manuscripts (MUM00471) Mississippi Authors Small Manuscripts (MUM00299) Vertical Files (MUM00459) Other Resources For more information on Mississippi authors, see the Archives' Literary Collections subject guide. Return to Table of Contents » CONTROLLED ACCESS HEADINGS Format(s) correspondence exhibition catalogs programs (documents) Personal Name(s) Creekmore, Hubert, 1907-1966 Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Friends and associates Subject(s) Authors, American -- 20th century Return to Table of Contents » COLLECTION INVENTORY Series I: Professional Correspondence 1.1 1933 Scope and Content Includes Herbert J. Seligmann. 1.2 1939 1.3 1943 Scope and Content Includes Lehman Engle. 1.4 1943 Scope and Content Includes Lehman Engle. 1.5 1944 Scope and Content Includes John M. Crawford, Lehman Engle. 1.6 1948 Scope and Content Includes Edward Naumburg, Martin S. Allwood. 1.7 1949 Scope and Content Includes Audrey Wood, Howard Hugo. 1.8 1950 Scope and Content Includes Alexander Stoller, James Laughlin. 1.9 1950 1.10 1951 Scope and Content Includes David Ignatow, Gerard Previn Meyer, Francis Brown. 1.11 1951 Scope and Content Includes Donald E. Thompson. 1.12 1951 Scope and Content Includes James Laughlin. 2.1 1952 Scope and Content Includes L.R. Lind, Kenneth Rexroth, Charlotte Leonard. 2.2 1952 Scope and Content Includes James Laughlin, W.J. Strachan, Kenneth Rexroth, L.R. Lind. 2.3 1953 Scope and Content Includes David McDowell, Francis Brown 2.4 1953 Scope and Content Includes David McDowell, Bill Smith, L.R. Lind, Theodore M. Purdy, John Schaffner, Robert M. MacGregor, Jean Ennis 2.5 1953 Scope and Content Includes Samuel Yellen, Jean Ennis, Virginia B. Carrick, Vaun Gillmor, Benys Barbrauskas, P Includes Gehring, Stanley Kauffmann 2.6 1954 Scope and Content Includes Thomas G. Bergin, Lehman Engle, Earl Davis 2.7 1954 Scope and Content Includes Robert M. MacGregor, David McDowell, L.R. Lind, Ruth Graves 2.8 1955 Scope and Content Includes L.R. Lind, Gertrude Reynolds, Joan H. Tannehill, Ursula Weise; Lucie E.N. Dobbie, Jean Ennis, Maria Luisa Cisneros, Theodore M. Purdy, Robert M. MacGregor 2.9 1959 Scope and Content Includes Murray McCain 2.10 1976 Scope and Content Includes James Laughlin Return to Table of Contents » Series II: Personal Correspondence 3.1 1936-1939 3.2 1943 3.3 1943 3.4 1944 3.5 1944 3.6 1944 3.7 1944 3.8 1944 3.9 1948 3.10 1950 3.11 1951 3.12 1952 4.1 1952 4.2 1952 4.3 1953 4.4 1954 4.5 1956 4.6 1957 4.7 1958 4.8 1959 5.1 1960 5.2 1961 5.3 1962 5.4 1963 5.5 1963 5.6 1965 5.7 1965 5.8 1966 5.9 Undated Return to Table of Contents » Series III: Playbills 6.1 Undated Robinson Jeffers: Medea Fordham University Theater. Eugene O’Neill: Lazarus Laughed Group Theater. Clifford Odets: Awake and Sing Fordham University Theater. Eugene O’Neill: Lazarus Laughed 55th Street Playhouse. Jean Lenoir: The Depression is Over Empire Theater. Elmer Rice: We, The People Shubert Theater. Americana The Playgoer. W. Somerset Maugham: The Sacred Flame Embassy Theater. King Vidor: Hallelujah! Astor Theater. Kenyon Nicholson: The Broadway Melody The Playhouse. Elmer Rice: Street Scene: A Play in Three Acts Woodford Theater. John Wofford: The Snare Playbill booklet: Mima Longacre Theater. Charles Beahan: Jarnegan Gaiety Theater. Berthold Viertel: 4 Devils Embassy Theater. Winifred Dunn: Submarine John Meehan: Bless You Sister Guild Theater. George Bernard Shaw: The Doctor’s Dilemma Provincetown Playhouse. Paul Green: In Abraham’s Bosom The Playgoer. W. Somerset Maugham: The Sacred Flame Criterion Theater. Hope Loring: Wings Cameo Theater. S. Dell’Isola: A Russian Melody The Playhouse Theater. Frank Keenan: Black Velvet Lulu Vollmer: The Shame Woman Studebaker Theater. Owen Davis: The Great Gatsby Shubert Olympic. Raymond W. Peck: Castles in the Air Curran Theater. Guy Bolton: Lady Be Good The Metropolitan. W. Somerset Maugham: The Sacred Flame The Playgoer. Luther Reed: The Shock Punch Samuel Baerwitz: Harry Delmar’s Revels Theater Marigny. Moliere: Les Fourberies de Scapin 6.2 1868-1925 Old Rialto Theatre. William A. Brady: The After Dark, 1868 Lyceum Theater. Kick In, 1923 Grauman’s Theater. Hal Roach: Dog Days, Our Gang, 1925 The Metropolitan. Henry King: The Cloud Hopper, 1925 Orange Grove Theater. Leon Gordon: White Cargo, 1925 Orpheum Circuit Vaudeville. Tom Barry: His Adorable Wife, 1925 The Playhouse. F. Tennyson Jesse: Quarantine, 1925 6.3 1927 44th Street Theater. A Night in Spain The Theater Masque. Maurine Watkins: Revelry The Little Theater. Conrad Westervelt: Romancing ‘round Charles Hopkins Theater. A.A. Milne: Revelry The Triangle Club. Samuel Carter III: Samarkand The University of Colorado Little Theater. A Shakespeare Program Shubert Theater. Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse: Oh Kay The Yale University of Fine Arts, Department of Drama. Maude Humphrey: The Singing Minute The Century Theater. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Booth Theater. John Galsworthy: Escape Shubert Theater. Max Marcin: A Hollywood Party Shubert Theater. Lulu Vollmer: Trigger The Yale University of Fine Arts, Department of Drama. Covington Littleton: Pueblo Ziegfeld. Oscar Hammerstein II: Show Boat 6.4 1928 (1 of 3) Shubert Theater. Eugene O’Neill: Diversion Guild Theater. Covington Littleton: Marco Millions Guild Theater. Covington Littleton: Marco Millions Shubert Theater. Philip Dunning: Broadway Cosmopolitan Theater. August Scholz: Der Lebende Leichnam The Music Box. Philip Barry: Paris Bound Ambassador Theater. Bartlett Cormack: The Racket John Golden Theater. Eugene O’Neill: Strange Interlude 48th Street Theater. Elmer Rice: Cock Robin John Golden Theater. Eugene O’Neill: Strange Interlude Shubert Theater. W. Somerset Maugham: The Letter Woolsey Hall. Maria Jertiza The Experimental Theater of Vassar. Anton Chekov: The Marriage Proposal Department of Drama at Yale.
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