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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>".5 lin. ft. (1 box)"}
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1996-020", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21355", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"Kay Barnes papers"}
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{"value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Kay Barnes Papers, *T-Mss 1996-020, The Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Actress Kay Barnes was the daughter of theatrical manager James R. Barnes. She appeared with the Rochester Players, the Mrs. Fiske Company and the Coburn Players. In 1927 she married radio vice-president and general manager, Theodore Franklin Allen (Ted Allen).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Kay Barnes Papers were given to the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts by Brenda Daly in May 1996.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Kay Barnes papers consist of correspondence, a scrapbook and ephemera documenting her career, as well as aspects of the career of her father, <span class=\"persname\">James R. Barnes</span>. The correspondence includes a few letters from <span class=\"persname\">John Philip Sousa</span> to Kay Barnes' mother, letters from<span class=\"persname\"> Ivah Wills Coburn</span> and some cards and letters from <span class=\"persname\">Charles Coburn</span>. The ephemera contains materials from Kay Barnes' work with the <span class=\"corpname\">Mrs. Fiske Company</span>. Her scrapbook contains clippings, telegrams and letters documenting her career from 1919. Productions include <span class=\"title\">Oh, My Dear</span>, <span class=\"title\">Apple Blossoms</span>, <span class=\"title\">Enter Madame</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Bat</span>, among others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Kay Barnes papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21355#c297734'>Series I. Correspondence,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1909-1960</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence includes family correspondence: letters to Kay Barnes' mother from her father, theater manager James Barnes about Kay and a letter to Kay from her husband Ted Allen. Also contains letters mainly from Ivah Wills Coburn, also Charles Coburn, to Kay Barnes and letters to her mother from John Philip Sousa, for whom her father worked.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21355#c297739'>Series II. Ephemera,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1903-1972</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>5 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Ephemeral items include photographs, clippings and programs. Two snapshots of John Philip Sousa ca. 1903, a silk program for <span class=\"title\">Alias the Deacon</span>, and a half-tone of the Mrs. Fiske Company in 1928 are the gems of this series.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21355#c297745'>Series III. Scrapbooks,.</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1919-1926</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 volume</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The scrapbook documents Kay Barnes' career beginning in 1919 with <span class=\"title\">Oh, My Dear</span>. Other productions include <span class=\"title\">Apple Blossoms</span>, <span class=\"title\">Bronx Express</span>, <span class=\"title\">Temptation</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Imaginary Invalid</span>, <span class=\"title\">Enter Madame</span>, <span class=\"title\">Clarence</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Bat</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Weeds</span>. The scrapbook contains clippings, half-tones, telegrams and letters.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence</li> <li>Series II: Ephemera</li> <li>Series III: Scrapbooks</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Placed in the Theatre Collection's Photograph Files (B files are 8 x 10 and C files are larger).</p> <ul> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Kay Barnes</span> - 7 B file photos</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Bronx Express</span> - 9 C file photos</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">The Merry Wives of Windsor</span> - 1 C file photo</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Much Ado About Nothing</span> - 1 photo added to MWEZ + n.c. 18,869</li> <li> <span class=\"corpname\">The Mrs. Fiske Company</span> - 2 C file photos</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Hope Williams</span> - 2 B file photos</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Otis Skinner</span> - 1 B file photo</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Henrietta Crosman</span> - 1 B file photo</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Mrs. Fiske</span> - 1 C file photo</li> <li> <span class=\"title\">Enter Madame</span> - 1 B file photo</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Wilda Bennett</span> (Autographed photograph)</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Berton Churchill</span>(Autographed photograph)</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Donald Foster</span>(Autographed photograph)</li> <li> <span class=\"persname\">Lorraine Manville</span>(Autographed photograph)</li></ul>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1903-1972", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1903/1972"}
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1903
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1972
- origination
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{"value"=>"Barnes, Kay", "type"=>"persname"}
- acqinfo
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{"accession_number"=>"THE Mss 1996-020"}
{"date"=>"1996", "source"=>"Brenda Daly", "address"=>"See donor file", "method"=>"Gift", "extent"=>".4 o", "value"=>"Gift, Brenda Daly, 1996"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Kay Barnes papers consist of correspondence, a scrapbook and ephemera documenting her career, as well as aspects of the career of her father, James R. Barnes. The correspondence includes a few letters from John Philip Sousa to Kay Barnes' mother, letters from Ivah Wills Coburn and some cards and letters from Charles Coburn. The ephemera contains materials from Kay Barnes' work with the Mrs. Fiske Company. Her scrapbook contains clippings, telegrams and letters documenting her career from 1919. Productions include OH, MY DEAR, APPLE BLOSSOMS, ENTER MADAME and THE BAT, among others."}
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1903
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Susan MacArthur.</p>"}
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1903
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1972