Elwin A. Strong Papers, circa 1920-circa 1941


Summary Information
Title: Elwin A. Strong Papers
Inclusive Dates: circa 1920-circa 1941

Creator:
  • Strong, Elwin A., d. 1963
Call Number: MCHC64-088

Quantity: 9.2 cubic feet (9 records center cartons and 1 archives box)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Scripts and theatrical materials collected by Elwin A. Strong, a theatrical manager associated with various local troups and touring companies in the Midwest including the Madison Civic Theatre, the Elwin Strong Select Players, and various Federal Theatre Project groups in Nebraska. Included are printed and mimeographed scripts distributed by play services and some scripts in handwritten form thought to be by Strong. Some include scripts for individual parts and property lists. Also included are scripts, advertising material, and sheet music distributed by the T.S. Denison Company for minstrel shows.

Language: English

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Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Robert E. Freidel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Accession Number: MCH64-088


Contents List
MCHC64-088
Box   1
Folder   1
Absinthe
Box   1
Folder   2
Across the Rio Grande (parts)
Box   1
Folder   3
Aladdin and His Lamp (parts and script)
Box   1
Folder   4
Ali Babba and the Forty Thieves
Box   1
Folder   5
Along Came Ruth (parts and script)
Box   1
Folder   6
An Alarming Situation
Box   1
Folder   7
The American Girl
Box   1
Folder   8
The American Singing Master
Box   1
Folder   9
Applesauce
Box   1
Folder   10
The Acquittal (parts and script)
Box   1
Folder   11
An Article of War
Box   1
Folder   12
Ask a Nurse
Box   1
Folder   13
At Sunrise
Box   1
Folder   14
Aunt Betty From Butte
Box   1
Folder   15
Author Unknown
Box   1
Folder   16
Babbitt's Boy
Box   1
Folder   17
Baby Mine (parts and script)
Box   1
Folder   18
A Bachelor's Baby
Box   1
Folder   19
The Bad Penny
Box   1
Folder   20-21
The Best People (script)
Box   1
Folder   22
Beyond The Styx
Box   1
Folder   23
Blades O' Blue Grass
Box   1
Folder   24
The Bird Of Paradise (parts and script)
Box   1
Folder   25
The Boss
Box   1
Folder   26
Boss of Z Ranch
Box   2
Folder   1
A Boy Of The Streets
Box   2
Folder   2
Brewster's Millions
Box   2
Folder   3
Brownie Redfeather And Hilly Billy's Mice
Box   2
Folder   4
Bruce Van Allen's Wife
Box   2
Folder   5
The Bungalow Bride
Box   2
Folder   6
A Burglar's Sweetheart
Box   2
Folder   7
Calgary Eyeopener (Vol.24 No.13)
Box   2
Folder   8
The Charity Ball
Box   2
Folder   9
Chauffeur (parts)
Box   2
Folder   10-11
Cheaper to Marry
Box   2
Folder   12
A Christmas Chime
Box   2
Folder   13
Christopher Columbus
Box   2
Folder   14
Cinderella and the Prince
Box   2
Folder   15
College Chums
Box   2
Folder   16
The Commodore
Box   2
Folder   17
The Count and Convict (acts 1-5)
Box   2
Folder   18
The Cowboy and the Lady (parts and script)
Box   2
Folder   19
Crimes of a Great City
Box   2
Folder   20-21
The Crooked Square
Box   2
Folder   22
A Crown For Mary
Box   2
Folder   23
Costume Catalogs
Box   2
Folder   24
A Darksome Furriner
Box   2
Folder   25
A Daughter of Judea (revised form of “Leah the Forsaken”)
Box   2
Folder   26
The Dear, Dear Children
Box   2
Folder   27
Denison's Minstrels
Box   2
Folder   28
Denison's Orchestra Library (sheet music)
Box   2
Folder   29
Denison (minstrel) Advertising
Box   3
Folder   1
A Devil's Lane
Box   3
Folder   2-3
The Diamond King
Box   3
Folder   4
The Dickey Bird
Box   3
Folder   5
Dixie Minstrel
Box   3
Folder   6
Don't Feed The Animals
Box   3
Folder   7
East Lynne
Box   3
Folder   8-9
Eyes of Youth
Box   3
Folder   10
Fair and Warmer
Box   3
Folder   11
The Family Upstairs (parts, script, and prop list)
Box   3
Folder   12
The Farmer's Daughter
Box   3
Folder   13
Fatty Felix
Box   3
Folder   14
Federal Theatre Project, Bureau of Research and Publication (compiled play parts)
Box   3
Folder   15
Federal Theatre Project
Box   3
Folder   16
The Flag of Truce
Box   3
Folder   17
Flower Of Mexico
Box   3
Folder   18
The Fighting Hope
Box   3
Folder   19-20
The Forest Fire
Box   3
Folder   21-22
Forgiven
Box   3
Folder   23
For His Sake (parts)
Box   3
Folder   24
For Love and Honor
Box   3
Folder   25
The Four Months
Box   3
Folder   26
The Gamblers
Box   3
Folder   27-28
Getting Gertie's Garter
Box   3
Folder   29
The Girl From Child's (script and parts)
Box   3
Folder   30
Girl of the Streets
Box   3
Folder   31
The Good Bad Man (script and parts)
Box   4
Folder   1
Good Morning Judge (parts)
Box   4
Folder   2
The Governor
Box   4
Folder   3
The Great Dark
Box   4
Folder   4
Hard Boiled Mrs. Pete
Box   4
Folder   5
Held By The Enemy
Box   4
Folder   6
His Majesty and the Maid
Box   4
Folder   7
His Other Wife (Books 1 and 2)
Box   4
Folder   8
His Worst Enemy
Box   4
Folder   9
Honeymoon Interlude
Box   4
Folder   10
Hoosier Kid (Posey from Poseyville)
Box   4
Folder   11
A House Divided
Box   4
Folder   12
Household Hints
Box   4
Folder   13
House of a Thousand Candles (part and script)
Box   4
Folder   14
The House of Fear
Box   4
Folder   15
Huckleberry Finn (parts and script)
Box   4
Folder   16
If Men Played Cards as Women Do
Box   4
Folder   17
In Atlantic City
Box   4
Folder   18
In Mizzouri
Box   4
Folder   19-20
In Old Kentucky
Box   4
Folder   21
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Box   4
Folder   22
The Invisible Empire (a story of the Ku-Klux-Klan)
Box   4
Folder   23
The It Girl (parts and script)
Box   4
Folder   24
It Pays to Advertise
Box   4
Folder   25
I've Been Here Before
Box   4
Folder   26
Jim the Westerner or Nature's Nobleman
Box   4
Folder   27
Just Debts
Box   5
Folder   1-2
Just Married
Box   5
Folder   3
Keep Him Guessing
Box   5
Folder   4-6
Kick In
Box   5
Folder   7
Knob's 'O Tennessee
Box   5
Folder   8
Laff That Off
Box   5
Folder   9
The “Land 'O Cotton”
Box   5
Folder   10
Land of the Midnight Sun
Box   5
Folder   11
Let Us Be Gay
Box   5
Folder   12
Lincoln Research
Box   5
Folder   13
The Lion and the Mouse
Box   5
Folder   14
Little Red Riding Hood
Box   5
Folder   15
The Little Spitfire
Box   5
Folder   16
Luncheon For Six
Box   5
Folder   17
Mable Heath
Box   5
Folder   18
Mack's Minstrelsy 1927
Box   5
Folder   19
The Mad Honeymoon (parts and script)
Box   5
Folder   20
Madison Department of Recreation (Madison, Wisconsin)
Box   5
Folder   21
Maizie (parts and script)
Box   5
Folder   22
The Man In the Bowler Hat (prompt script)
Box   5
Folder   23-24
The Man On the Box (parts, script, ground plans)
Box   5
Folder   25
The Man Outside
Box   5
Folder   26
The Man Who Came Back
Box   5
Folder   27
Marriage By Mail
Box   5
Folder   28
Master of Ceremonies
Box   6
Folder   1
Meet The Bride (parts and script)
Box   6
Folder   2
Merely Mary Ann
Box   6
Folder   3
The Midnight Flyer
Box   6
Folder   4
The Minister's Daughters
Box   6
Folder   5-6
Minstrel
Box   6
Folder   7
Miscellaneous Scripts
Box   6
Folder   8
The Misleading Lady
Box   6
Folder   9
Miss Hursey From Jersey
Box   6
Folder   10
My Friend My Pal
Box   6
Folder   11
My Partner (parts)
Box   6
Folder   12
My Ramona
Box   6
Folder   13
Mytle Ferns
Box   6
Folder   14
Nancy's Private Affair (script and parts)
Box   6
Folder   15
Naomi of the North
Box   6
Folder   16
National Refining Company News (Humor)
Box   6
Folder   17
Nearly Married (parts and script)
Box   6
Folder   18
Nerves
Box   6
Folder   19
The New Editor
Box   6
Folder   20
The Night Rider (A Reign of Fear)
Box   6
Folder   21
The Ninty and Nine
Box   6
Folder   22
No Mother to Guide Her
Box   6
Folder   23
The Old Grouch
Box   6
Folder   24
On Circus Day
Box   6
Folder   25
On to Washington
Box   6
Folder   26
One Rainy Afternoon
Box   6
Folder   27
Only a Girl's Love
Box   6
Folder   28
Only a Working Man
Box   7
Folder   1
The Other Son (a Biblical story)
Box   7
Folder   2
Our Minister
Box   7
Folder   3
Our Wives
Box   7
Folder   4
Out of the Night
Box   7
Folder   5
Out West
Box   7
Folder   6
Pancakes
Box   7
Folder   7
Pigs (script and parts)
Box   7
Folder   8
The Price of Silence
Box   7
Folder   9-10
The Price She Paid
Box   7
Folder   11
Prisoner at the Bar
Box   7
Folder   12
The Private Tutor
Box   7
Folder   13
The Pudding Pan
Box   7
Folder   14
Puppets/Marionettes
Box   7
Folder   15
Quaker Wedding
Box   7
Folder   16
Queen of Chance (Trapped by Treachery)
Box   7
Folder   17
Queen of the Rockies
Box   7
Folder   18
Quiz Baseball (game 1st & 2nd ed.)
Box   7
Folder   19
Railroad Jack
Box   7
Folder   20
Reaping The Harvest
Box   7
Folder   21
The Red Cat
Box   7
Folder   22
Red Pepper (Humor magazine) 1927
Box   7
Folder   23
Rehearsal
Box   7
Folder   24
Renting a Husband
Box   7
Folder   25
Revelation (parts)
Box   7
Folder   26
The Rivers Warning (project 791-1)
Box   7
Folder   27
Road to Frisco
Box   7
Folder   28
The Rose of Picardy
Box   7
Folder   29
A Royal Slave
Box   7
Folder   30
Rubies and Pearls
Box   7
Folder   31
Runaways
Box   7
Folder   32
Sahara Love (parts and script)
Box   7
Folder   33
St. Elmo
Box   7
Folder   34
San Antonio
Box   7
Folder   35
Scrubby or Cinderella of the Summer's Farm
Box   7
Folder   36
Seventh Heaven (parts and script)
Box   8
Folder   1
She Got What She Wanted
Box   8
Folder   2
She Looks Good to Father
Box   8
Folder   3-4
Sheet Music (Denison's songs and minstrels)
Box   8
Folder   5
Shelved
Box   8
Folder   6
She's Not So Dumb (parts)
Box   8
Folder   7
Shipwrecked
Box   8
Folder   8
The Shoplifters
Box   8
Folder   9
Sign of Four
Box   8
Folder   10
The Silent Witness (script and parts)
Box   8
Folder   11
Sis Hopkins (script)
Box   8
Folder   12
Sis Hopkins (parts)
Box   8
Folder   13
Slaves of the Orient (parts)
Box   8
Folder   14-16
Slippy McGee
Box   8
Folder   17
Songs For the Rotary Club (music)
Box   8
Folder   18
So This is Marriage
Box   8
Folder   19
The Soul Doctor
Box   8
Folder   20
The Spelling Lesson
Box   8
Folder   21
Such as I Have
Box   8
Folder   22
Sweet Magnolia
Box   8
Folder   23
Tess of the Storm Country (parts and script)
Box   8
Folder   24
That Terrible Kid
Box   8
Folder   25
This Thing Called Love (parts and script)
Box   8
Folder   26
The Top Sergeant
Box   8
Folder   27
Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Box   9
Folder   1
Tompkin's Troubles
Box   9
Folder   2
Too Many Wives
Box   9
Folder   3
Tom Sawyer
Box   9
Folder   4
The Toy Heart
Box   9
Folder   5
Trial Marriage
Box   9
Folder   6
The True Case of Francis Makernie
Box   9
Folder   7
The Trust Busters
Box   9
Folder   8
Two Married Men (Jolly Companions)
Box   9
Folder   8a
Ukelele instructions
Box   9
Folder   9
Uncle Henry (script and parts)
Box   9
Folder   10-11
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Box   9
Folder   12
The Unkissed Bride
Box   9
Folder   13
Untitled Handwritten Script Fragment
Box   9
Folder   14
Untitled Parts Script
Box   9
Folder   15
The Valiant
Box   9
Folder   16
The Vendetta
Box   9
Folder   17
The Virginian (parts and script)
Box   9
Folder   18
Waifs of New York
Box   9
Folder   19
Web
Box   9
Folder   20
The Westerner (parts)
Box   9
Folder   21
Which One Shall I Marry (parts and script)
Box   9
Folder   22
The Whirlpool
Box   9
Folder   23
The Whole Town's Talking (parts and script)
Box   9
Folder   24
Why Men Leave Home (parts and script)
Box   10
Folder   1
Why Wives Worry
Box   10
Folder   2
Wife In Name Only
Box   10
Folder   3
The Wolf (parts and script)
Box   10
Folder   4
You Know Senators