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The OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository: The OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository is designed to showcase the rich collections housed in archives, libraries, and other institutions throughout the state of Ohio including finding aids for the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute and other collections of the Ohio State University Libraries.

Inventory of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Collection: The playwriting team of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee was one of the great partnerships in American twentieth-century theatre. Among their many long running and widely produced plays are Inherit the Wind, First Monday in October, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and Auntie Mame. The collection includes scripts, script development notes, production files, correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, clippings, journal and magazine issues, artifacts, audiovisual materials, original art, autographs, playbills, souvenir booklets, theatre and writer organizations materials, brochures and conference materials, posters, radio and television scripts, and books.

Guide to the Clara Hieronymus Collection: The collection consists of the personal papers of Clara Hieronymus, spanning her entire career as a theatre critic for The Tennessean (Nashville). Materials include her own writings and notes as well as newspaper clippings, press releases, programs, newsletters, correspondence, and photographs collected by Hieronymus. A series is devoted to her involvement as a founding member and an officer with the American Theatre Critics Association, including records, correspondence, and programs for various conferences and events.

Finding Aid for the Charles H. McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance From Burlesque to Clubs: The materials in the McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance from Burlesque to Clubs come from the personal collection of Dr. Charles H. McCaghy, professor emeritus of the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. The collection contains a wide variety of materials related to striptease research and memorabilia, spanning from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day and exploring all aspects of striptease in performance, from early burlesque\vaudeville to modern strip clubs and the neo-burlesque movement.

Guide to the Sanford Roth collection: The collection consists of 33 black-and-white photoprints, 35 x 25 cm. or smaller. Subjects include George Antheil, Irving Berlin, Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky, Colette, Noel Coward, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Sandra Dee, Alain Delon, Lord Dunsany, Peter Finch, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Christopher Isherwood, Danny Kaye, Charles Laughton with Anne Baxter, Jack Lemmon, Carlo Levi, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Groucho Marx, Raymond Massey, Alberto Moravia, Eric Maria Remarque, Jean Renoir, Edward G. Robinson, Francois Sagan, James Stewart, Igor Stravinsky, Kay Thompson with Evelyn Rudie, Peter Ustinov.

Inventory of the Twyla Tharp Archive, 1963-1997: The Twyla Tharp Archive is a massive collection of materials which document her creative career in dance, film and television; the Tharp dance company known by various names including Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Twyla Tharp Dance, and Tharp!, and the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation.. The collection includes photographic series, press and promotion series, artistic series, technical production series, administrative series, financial series, development series, moving image series, sound recording series, personal papers series, and books used for research (access available through the Ohio State University online library catalog). The original large gift was made by Twyla Tharp in 1991 with continuing additional deposits.

Inventory of the Leonard Spigelgass Papers: The collection contains books, scripts, playbills, clippings, awards, photos, journal articles by Spigelgass, biographical and miscellaneous materials. It includes typescript copies of Spigelgass's scripts for The Playgirls, Farce and The Royal Family of Broadway (television play with holograph notes by Lynn Fontanne). Materials on A Majority of One include a scrapbook with N.Y. and Philadelphia review clippings, programs and an original cartoon signed by Sandy Roth. There is sheet music by Jule Styne for the musical Look to the Lilies; 3 theater posters; and photographs of actors (including signed photographs of Mae West and of Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke in A Majority of One).

Guide to the Robert A. Wachsman papers: Collection consists of photographs, programs, reviews, clippings and miscellaneous materials, chiefly of the original production of Porgy and Bess which opened in Boston in 1935 and toured for several years in the U.S. Also contains various materials related to John Henry, Boy meets girl, Home town boy and other productions in which Wachsman was involved. Includes programs and clippings on composer George Gershwin; holograph manuscript of a musical composition by Harold Arlen (Last night when we were young) with signed notation; copies of scores by Harold Arlen (Stormy weather, Let's fall in love excerpt); souvenir program signed by producer Merle Armitage; autographed copy of John Henry blues by composer W.C. Handy; menu signed by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer and others; portrait print of Jerome Kern with signed inscription.