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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 441

Sir John Martin-Harvey papers

Overview

Scripts, scores, set and costume designs, correspondence, and photographs of the English actor and manager John Martin-Harvey.

Dates

  • Creation: 1895-1945
  • Creation: Majority of material found in 1911-1924

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

Extent

6 linear feet (4 boxes and 12 scrapbooks)

Contains annotated scripts,scores, costume and set designs, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks of clippings, 1895-1936, programs, and souvenir programs relating to Martin-Harvey's theatrical career. Included are scripts, scores, and production photographs of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (1912); scripts, scores, costume designs, and photographs of Hugo von Hoffmannsthal's Via Crucis (Everyman) (1923); and scene designs for Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas et Melisande (1911).

Biographical / Historical

English actor and manager, Martin-Harvey received his greatest critical acclaim for the role of Oedipus Rex, though he was best known for his romantic roles in melodrama.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series:

  1. I. Scripts
  2. II. Scores
  3. III. Original designs
  4. IV. Correspondence
  5. V. Photographs
  6. VI. Scrapbooks
  7. VII. Programs and souvenir programs
  8. VIII. Miscellany

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2003MT-142. Purchased.

Title
Martin-Harvey, John, Sir, 1863-1944. Sir John Martin-Harvey papers, 1895-1945: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou01591

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

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