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{"value"=>"MssCol 110", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"110", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1903-1960", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1903/1960"}
{"value"=>"1911-1940", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1911/1940"}
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1903
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1960
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1903
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{"value"=>"Louis K. Anspacher papers"}
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Papers consist of correspondence and theatrical writings, ca. 1903-1960 of Louis K. Anspacher, playwright, author, lecturer, and occasional actor."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Louis K. Anspacher Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.</p>"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Louis K. Anspacher (1878-1947) was a playwright, author, lecturer, and occasional actor. Born in Ohio, he was raised, educated and resided in New York City and its environs. After taking degrees in law and philosophy at Columbia University in 1905, Anspacher turned to writing for the theater and lecturing for his livelihood. He published 17 plays between 1904 and 1940, as well as lecturing at the League for Political Education (1906-1947), the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1908-1947), and at Columbia University/Institue of Arts and Sciences. He toured extensively in the United States/lecturing on drama, art, politics, and social problems, often while acting in touring theater companies under an assumed name. In addition to his plays, Anspacher published three collections of poetry from 1943-1946, including several works commissioned by Isadora Duncan, and seven volumes of literary and social criticism and philosophy. Dr. Anspacher was also an active supporter of woman suffrage and birth control.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"persname\">Louis K. Anspacher</span> Papers consist of correspondence and theatrical writings. The correspondence (1903-1960), with actors, directors, producers and agents, including <span class=\"persname\">Charles Coburn</span> and <span class=\"persname\">John Rumsey</span>, concerns the publication, copyrights, and productions of Anspacher's plays in Europe, Great Britain and the United States, and includes contracts, agreements and royalty statements. The writings consist of multiple drafts, both manuscript and typescript, of several of Anspacher's plays, including <span class=\"title\">Rhapsody</span>and <span class=\"title\">That Day,</span>as well as many of his lectures on theater, drama and society.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Louis K. Anspacher papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/110#c174305'>Series I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1903-1960</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/110#c174319'>Series II. Writings</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Mrs. Florence Sutro Anspacher, <date>May 1960</date></p>"}
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{"value"=>"Anspacher, Louis Kaufman, 1878-1947", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"Two series: Correspondence; Writings", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Charles Kronick; machine readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services and revised by Chatham Ewing.</p>"}
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1903
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1960
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1911
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1940