Betty Rappaport Nathanson's Collection of the Guthrie Theater
Scope and Content Note
Collection consists of Guthrie Theater materials, referred to as the Minnesota Theatre Company before 1970, including posters, programs, promotional materials, photographs, Board of Directors minutes, memos and directories, Stagehands directories, and press clippings.
Dates
- 1969-1989
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open and available for use by researchers in the Andersen Library Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright is retained by the copyright holder.
Biographical Note
Betty Rappaport Nathanson (1924-2005) was a philanthropist and an avid Guthrie Theater supporter. She was on the Guthrie Board of Directors in the 1970s and a member of Stagehands, an all-women's volunteer organization in support of the Guthrie Theater, from 1968 until 1973.
Extent
3 boxes (5 linear feet)
Abstract
Collection consists of Guthrie Theater posters, programs, promotional materials, photographs, Board of Directors minutes, memos and directories, Stagehands directories, and press clippings of various productions.
Physical Location
Mezzanine, High Bay
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Performing Arts Archives by the family of Betty Rappaport Nathanson in 2012.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and finding aid written by Joanne Gordon and Karen Obermeyer-Kolb in 2016.
- Guthrie Theater
- Nathanson, Betty Rappaport
- Theater -- Management Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Theater -- Minnesota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Theater -- Production and direction Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Theater -- Production and direction -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- History -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Theater programs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Betty Rappaport Nathanson's Collection of the Guthrie Theater
- Author
- Karen Obermeyer-Kolb
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English English
Collecting Area Details
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