Guide to the Iron Clad Agreement Records, 1973-1989 CTC.1990.01
Arrangement
Repository
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Title
Iron Clad Agreement Records
Creator
Iron Clad Agreement (Theatrical company)
Collection Number
CTC.1990.01
Extent
18.5 Linear Feet(27 boxes)
Date
1973-1989
Abstract
The Iron Clad Agreement theatre company integrated historical research and live theatre. The group operated in Pittsburgh and New York City from 1976 till 1985. The collection contains operational files, correspondence, scripts, photographs, slides, audio and audio/visual recordings relating to the company's operation.
Language
English
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Author
David Sleasman.
Publisher
ULS Archives & Special Collections
Address
University of Pittsburgh Library System Archives & Special Collections Website: library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections Business Number: 412-648-3232 (Thomas) | 412-648-8190 (Hillman) Contact Us: www.library.pitt.edu/ask-archivist URL: http://library.pitt.edu/archives-special-collections
Previous Citation
Iron Clad Agreement Records, 1973-1989, CTC.1990.01, Curtis Theatre Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh
Iron Clad Agreement Records, 1975-1985, CTC.22, Curtis Theatre Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh
Preferred Citation
Iron Clad Agreement Records, 1973-1989, CTC.1990.01, Curtis Theatre Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Acquisition Information
Gift of Julia Royall, Iron Clad Agreement Producer, 1990. Additional materials were donated by Julia Royall in 2015.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Arrangement
The Iron Clad Agreement materials are arranged into seven series.
Series I. Operational Files, 1973-1986
Series II. Playscripts, 1976-1989
Series III. Photographs, 1976-1982
Series IV. Slides, 1977-1981
Series V. Audio Recordings, 1975-1984
Series VI. Audio/Visual Recordings, 1977-1982
Series VII. Oversized and Ephemera, 1976-1981
Scope and Content Notes
The Iron Clad Agreement records are arranged into seven series. The first is a group of operational files that are arranged alphabetically. Series II is a complete set of play scripts for all the productions that the Iron Clad Agreement performed. All of these play scripts are cross-referenced in the Curtis Play script and Acting Edition collection binder. These first two series make up the bulk of the collection. The remaining series III-VII are photographs, slides, audio recordings, video recordings, and oversized/ephemera, respectively. Please note that the Iron Clad Agreement founder Julia Royall is citied throughout the finding aid as Julia Swoyer, her name at the time.
History
The Iron Clad Agreement was founded in Pittsburgh in 1976 by Julia Royall and K. Wilson Hutton as a traveling forum for producing original theatre productions. Their work integrated historical research and live theatre emphasizing the performer as the most portable element of theatre. The Iron Clad Agreement sought to explore the age of America's Industrial Revolution--its inventors, workers, feminists, and labor leaders. Scripts and songs were written specifically for or by the company in the unique Iron Clad style, somewhere between vaudeville and documentary drama. The group performed extensively in a variety of non-traditional theatre settings for audiences of all ages and economic backgrounds.
Besides performances, the company's services included post-performance discussions; artistic and administrative internships; and workshops in acting, directing, movement, speech and voice. In 1981, the company moved their central base of operation to New York City with live history-oriented theatre productions and projects including the Eastern U.S., U.K. and Hong Kong. In addition to several Pittsburgh radio productions, they ventured into some television and film around the same thematic focus.
Major premiers included Edison at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC; Virgins and Dynamos at The Royal Society of Arts, London; and The Gilded Age of Invention at the Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland. The company was also featured on the Creativity with Bill Moyers television series and the Smithsonian Institution's film Mr. Edison and his Amazing Invention Factories. The company continued its unique style of blending history with theatre until ceasing major operations in 1985. Its final production, Hasta Cuando? for the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women under the auspices of We the People 2000, occurred in 1987.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by David Sleasman in 1992. It was entered into Archivists' Toolkit by Christie Graci in June 2010. Corrections to the finding aid with the assistance of Julia Royall and K. Wilson Hutton were made by William Daw in December 2016.
Copyright
The University of Pittsburgh holds the property rights to the material in this collection, but the copyright may still be held by the original creator/author. Researchers are therefore advised to follow the regulations set forth in the U.S. Copyright Code when publishing, quoting, or reproducing material from this collection without the consent of the creator/author or that go beyond what is allowed by fair use.
Subjects
Corporate Names
Iron Clad Agreement (Theatrical company)
Edinburgh International Festival
Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Personal Names
Lee, Muna
Whitney, Eli
Adams, Henry
Heinz, H. J. (Henry John)
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller
O'Casey, Sean
Hutton, Wilson
Grimké, Sarah Moore
Grimké, Angelina Emily
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) -- Drama
Guggenheim, Solomon R. (Solomon Robert)
Carnegie, Andrew
Eastman, George
Royall, Julia
Meyers, Larry John
Ford, Henry
Westinghouse, George
Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor)
Burbank, Luther
Genres
Audiocassettes
Audiotapes
Videotapes
Videocassettes
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Scripts (Documents)
Photographs
Slides (Photographs)
Other Subjects
Theater
Inventors -- Drama
Industrial revolution -- Drama
Theater -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Performing arts -- United States
Performing arts -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
Theater -- United States
Creativity with Bill Moyers
Mr. Edison and his amazing invention factories (Motion picture)
Container List
Scope and Content Notes
This is a complete run of scripts from all produced plays, most have multiple revisions included. All scripts also have been indexed in CTC's AE Inventory. The scripts are listed alphabetically by its title, then the author is listed, and then play script number. Please note that the Iron Clad Agreement founder Julia Royall is citied throughout the finding aid as Julia Swoyer, her name at the time.
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box 21, folder 1
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box 21, folder 2
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box 21, folder 3
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box 21, folder 4
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box 21, folder 5
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box 21, folder 6
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box 21, folder 7
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box 21, folder 8
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box 21, folder 9
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box 21, folder 10
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box 21, folder 11
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box 21, folder 12
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box 21, folder 13
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box 22, folder 1
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box 22, folder 2
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box 22, folder 3
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box 22, folder 4
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box 22, folder 5
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box 22, folder 6
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box 22, folder 7
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box 22, folder 8
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box 22, folder 9-10
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box 22, folder 11
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box 22, folder 12
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box 22, folder 13
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box 22, folder 14
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box 22, folder 15
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box 22, folder 16
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box 22, folder 17
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box 22, folder 18
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box 22, folder 19
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box 23, folder 1
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box 23, folder 2
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box 23, folder 3
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box 23, folder 4
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box 23, folder 5
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box 23, folder 6
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box 23, folder 7
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box 23, folder 8
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box 23, folder 9
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box 23, folder 10
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box 23, folder 11
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box 23, folder 12
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box 23, folder 13
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box 23, folder 14
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box 23, folder 15
Scope and Content Notes
Contains photographs and negatives of productions, actors, rehearsals, publicity material, and contact sheets. Materials are in alphabetical order by subject. Existing labels on the photographs have been accepted. The details of many of the photographs were supplied by the donors. Please note that the Iron Clad Agreement founder Julia Royall is citied throughout the finding aid as Julia Swoyer, her name at the time.
Containers
box 24, folder 1
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes K.W. Hutton, Christopher Josephs, James Krut, M.M. Melozzi, and D'Arcy Webb. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 2
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include K.W. Hutton, Larry John Meyers, and Ann Beigel. Photographs are by Julia R. Swoyer. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 3
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman and James Krut.
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box 24, folder 4
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes K.W. Hutton.
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box 24, folder 5
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box 24, folder 6
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Maya Angelou, John Huston, Norman Lear, Bill Moyers, and Samson Raphaelson.
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box 24, folder 7
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, and James Krut.
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box 24, folder 8
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Julia Swoyer and Major Road Theater. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 9
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, and James Krut. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 10
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Ann Beigel, Judith Ferrenbach, David Garfield, and K.W. Hutton.
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box 24, folder 11
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include K.W. Hutton. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 12
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Mark Harlow and K.W. Hutton. Photograph by Stan Sukolsky.
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box 24, folder 13
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, and James Krut.
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box 24, folder 14
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box 24, folder 15
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Katherine Ames, Ann Beigel, Doug Mertz, and Larry John Meyers.
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box 24, folder 16
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include K.W. Hutton, J. Krut, M.M. Melozzi, and Christopher Josephs.
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box 24, folder 17
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include David Crocker, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Fred Michael.
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box 24, folder 18
Scope and Content Notes
This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 19
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Katherine Ames, Ann Beigel, Doug Mertz, and Larry John Meyers. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 20
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Tom Hearn, general manager and director, Geoffrey Hitch, director, and Julia Swoyer, executive producer.
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box 24, folder 21
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman, Elan Garonzik, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Julia Swoyer.
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box 24, folder 22
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Julia Swoyer.
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box 24, folder 23
Scope and Content Notes
These publicity photos include Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Julia Swoyer. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 24
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box 24, folder 25
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Ramona Fischer Dowiak, Nancy Friedman, Mark Harlow, K.W. Hutton, Christopher Josephs, James Krut, M.M. Melozzi, Doug Merz, and Julia Swoyer. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 26
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box 24, folder 27
Scope and Content Notes
This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 28
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Ron Hankison, director, Mark Harlow, James Krut, and K.W. Wilson.
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box 24, folder 29
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Liz Humphrey-Williams, Phil Hearne, Sue Betts, and Kevin Stamp.
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box 24, folder 30
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box 24, folder 31
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes M.M. Melozzi and Dorothy Rosenberg.
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box 24, folder 32
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs are of K. Wilson Hutton as playwright Sean O'Casey. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 33
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Ramona Fischer, Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Cathy Rakow. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 34
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box 24, folder 35
Scope and Content Notes
This folder of negatives has several exterior images from around Pittsburgh.
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box 24, folder 36
Scope and Content Notes
This folder contains negatives only.
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box 24, folder 37
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box 24, folder 38
Scope and Content Notes
Photograph includes Katherine Ames and Doug Mertz. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 39
Scope and Content Notes
This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 40
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Mark Harlow, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and M.M. Melozzi. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 41
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box 24, folder 42
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Doug Mertz, Larry John Meyers, and Ann Beigel. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 43
Scope and Content Notes
This folder contains negatives only.
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box 24, folder 44
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include J. Holt, K.W. Hutton, Susan Wilder, and G. Weinberg. This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 45
Scope and Content Notes
This folder also includes negatives.
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box 24, folder 46
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include Nancy Friedman, K.W. Hutton, James Krut, and Julia Swoyer.
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box 24, folder 47
Scope and Content Notes
Photographs include K.W. Hutton and James Krut.
Scope and Content Notes
Includes both slides taken for publicity, etc. and those used in a production. The same standards for attributions were followed as with photographs.
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box 25, folder 1
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box 25, folder 2
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box 25, folder 3
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box 25, folder 4
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box 25, folder 5
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box 25, folder 6
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box 25, folder 7
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box 25, folder 8
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box 25, folder 9
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box 25, folder 10
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box 25, folder 11
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box 25, folder 12
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box 25, folder 13
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box 25, folder 14
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box 25, folder 15
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box 25, folder 16
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box 25, folder 17
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box 25, folder 18
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box 25, folder 19
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box 25, folder 20
Scope and Content Notes
Both cassette and reel recordings of performances, advertisements, and rehearsals. Materials are arranged alphabetically by title.
Scope and Content Notes
The audio cassettes in this series contain entire performances, songs, or music from Iron Clad Agreement productions. They are arranged alphabetically by title.
Containers
box 26, tape 1
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box 26, tape 2
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box 26, tape 3
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box 26, tape 4
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box 26, tape 5
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box 26, tape 6
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box 26, tape 7
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box 26, tape 8
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box 26, tape 9
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box 26, tape 10
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box 26, tape 11-12
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box 26, tape 13
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box 26, tape 13
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box 26, tape 14
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box 26, tape 15
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box 26, tape 16
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box 26, tape 17
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box 26, tape 18
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box 26, tape 18
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box 26, tape 19
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box 26, tape 20
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box 26, tape 20
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box 26, tape 21
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box 26, tape 22
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box 26, tape 23
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box 26, tape 24
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box 26, tape 25
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box 26, tape 26
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box 26, tape 27
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box 26, tape 28
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box 26, tape 29
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box 26, tape 29
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box 26, tape 30-31
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box 26, tape 32
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box 26, tape 33
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box 26, tape 34
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box 26, tape 35
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box 26, tape 36
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box 26, tape 37
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box 27, tape 38
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box 27, tape 39
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box 27, tape 40
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box 27, tape 41
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box 27, tape 42
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box 27, tape 43
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box 27, tape 44
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box 27, tape 45
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box 27, tape 46
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box 27, tape 47
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box 27, tape 48
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box 27, tape 48
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box 27, tape 50
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box 27, tape 51
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box 27, tape 52
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box 27, tape 53
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box 27, tape 54
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box 27, tape 55
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box 27, tape 56
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box 27, tape 57
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box 27, tape 58
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box 27, tape 59-60
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box 27, tape 61
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box 27, tape 62
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box 27, tape 63
Scope and Content Notes
This series contains audio cassettes that were used as resources when planning the company's productions. For the most part they contain fragments of speeches by various historical figures throughout the twentieth century. These cassettes are noted as being copies from Michigan State University.
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box 27, tape 64
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box 27, tape 65
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box 27, tape 66
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box 27, tape 67
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box 27, tape 68
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box 27, tape 69
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box 27, tape 70
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box 27, tape 71
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box 27, tape 72
Scope and Content Notes
This series contains audio tape on reels. The content of the audio is either audio recordings or entire performances, some of which were aired on the radio, or advertisements for the Iron Clad Agreement's productions. Some of the audio reels are master recordings.
Containers
box 27, reel 1
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box 27, reel 2
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box 27, reel 3
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box 27, reel 4
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box 27, reel 5
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box 27, reel 6
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box 27, reel 7
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box 27, reel 8
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box 27, reel 9
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box 27, reel 10
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box 27, reel 11
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box 27, reel 12
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box 27, reel 13
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box 27, reel 14
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box 27, reel 15
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box 27, reel 16
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box 27, reel 17-18
Scope and Content Notes
This series contains recordings of performances and rehearsals. Materials are arranged alphabetically by title. Please note that the department does not have playback equipment for several of the formats.
Scope and Content Notes
The audio/visual materials in this subseries are either in VHS or Umatic format.
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box 27, cassette 1
Container Summary
VHS
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box 27, cassette 2
Container Summary
U-matic
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box 27, cassette 3
Container Summary
U-matic S
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box 27, cassette 4
Container Summary
U-matic
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box 27, cassette 5
Container Summary
VHS PAL Format
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box 27, cassette 6
Container Summary
U-matic
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box 27, cassette 7
Container Summary
U-matic
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box 27, reel 1
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box 27, reel 2
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box 27, reel 3
Container Summary
Video tape on reel
Scope and Content Notes
The oversized materials consist of posters, photographs, costumes, etc. The Mr. Flack Mask is a large hand-held mask used in the production of Out of This Furnace, which was made by Pittsburgh puppeteer Margo Lovelace.