Kurtz Myers papers

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unitid

{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1998-017", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"21421", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Kurtz Myers papers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1929-1937", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1929/1937"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1929

date_inclusive_end

1937

origination

{"value"=>"Myers, Kurtz", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"internal"=>true, "accession_number"=>"THE"}

{"materials"=>"Papers", "source"=>"Kurtz Myers", "method"=>"gift", "value"=>"Papers: gift, Kurtz Myers"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>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)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1929

prefercite

{"value"=>"Kurtz Myers papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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. 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.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 box

date_start

1929

date_end

1937

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