Frances Hoffman Lavine scrapbooks

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: S6153

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection contains four scrapbooks relating to Frances Hoffman Lavine’s involvement in theater in French River and Duluth. They contain newsclippings, programs, and occasional photographs covering the Children’s Theater of Duluth, Little Theater of Duluth, French River Dramatic Arts Club, the Senior Hadassah at Temple Emanuel Congregation in Duluth, and her own dramatic performances. The original scrapbooks are at the UMD Library Archives and Special Collections, microfilmed copies of the scrapbooks as well as additional papers are at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Dates

1926-1938

Creator

Lavine, Frances Hoffman, 1906 January 7-1999 July 08 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for use in the Kathryn A. Martin Library, Archives and Special Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

Biographical / Historical

Frances Hoffman Lavine, the daughter of Louis and Sophie (Tauber) Hoffman, was born in Chicago and moved with her family to Duluth as a child. The Hoffmans also had two sons, Morris and Harold. The family moved to French River, Minnesota when Francis was 12, following Sophie’s death. Francis moved back to Duluth herself as a young woman. She married Max H. Lavine in 1935. The Lavines had one son, John, who was born in 1941 and lived in Superior, Wisconsin.

Frances served as director of the French River Dramatic Arts Club from 1926-1927 and participated in dramatic work through the Senior Hadassah at the Temple Emanuel Congregation in Duluth. In 1928 she found the Children’s Theater of Duluth, opening what was believed to the first children’s theater playhouse in the country in 1932. She also toured the United States and Canada with one-woman shows she created and produced.

Extent

4.00 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Physical Location

This collection is located at the University of Minnesota Duluth Archives. For more information about this collection or to make an appointment, contact us at libarchives@d.umn.edu or 218-726-8526.