Finding aids for nine newly cataloged collections, and preliminary box lists for two recent acquisitions, have been added to the OASIS database this month, including a collection of Japanese netsuke carved in the shape of theatrical masks, correspondence of the Emerson family, and posters for musical theater.
Processed by Irina Klyagin:
Ballet Scores for Productions of Anna Pavlova Ballet, 1907-1931 (MS Thr 1029)
E. G. Stillman Collection of Japanese Theater Masks Netsuke, circa 1700-1899 (MS Thr 1040)
Processed by Ashley M. Nary and Benjamin Hand:
Printed Ephemera Relating to Harvard University, 1865-2005 (MS Thr 1037)
Photographs of 20th-Century Theater and Film Personalities, 1908-2004 (MS Thr 1039)
Processed by Ashley M. Nary and Heather Darnell:
Photographs of 20th-Century Dance Personalities, circa 1922-2000 (MS Thr 1035)
Processed by Bonnie B. Salt:
Tristram Gilman Sermons and Other Papers, 1728-1808 (MS Am 1599)
Emerson Family Additional Correspondence, Compositions and Photographs, 1776-1912 (MS Am 2982)
Thomas Gage Letters, 1759-1773 (MS Eng 106)
John Storer Papers Concerning the Louisbourg Campaign, 1744-1747 (MS Am 969)
The following collections have new preliminary box-lists now on OASIS:
Processed by Melanie Wisner:
John M. Ward Papers, circa 1942-1996 (2007MTW-1)
Processed by Nora Garry and Melanie Wisner:
Kurt Gänzl Collection of Posters for Musical Theater in the Collection of John M. Ward, 1884-1991 (98TW-3)