It’s been a busy month for the manuscript catalogers! Finding aids for 15 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including portraits of burlesque dancers, theatrical costume designs, ephemera from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows, and manuscripts of the Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío:
Cataloged by Bonnie Salt:
Arthur Whittlesey Towne Papers on Conjoined Twins (MS Thr 580)
G. E. Calthrop Costume Designs for Cavalcade (MS Thr 582)
Elmer Chickering Photographs of “Chiquita” Espiridiona Cenda (MS Thr 584)
Tent Show Collection (MS Thr 585)
Wild West Show Collection (MS Thr 586)
Costume Designs by Mr. Phillips for the Gaiety Theatre (MS Thr 587)
Roland Young Drawings (MS Thr 588)
Papers for Three Designers for the Contemporary Theatre exhibition (MS Thr 589)
Menu Collection (MS Thr 591)
Portraits of Female Burlesque Entertainers (MS Thr 594)
Jean Baptiste Martin Costume Design Engravings (MS Thr 595))
Rollo Peters Costume Designs for The Pilgrim Spirit (MS Thr 597)
B. J. Simmons & Co. Costume Designs (MS Thr 598)
Cataloged by Michael Austin:
Reubén Dario Compositions (MS Span 279)
Cataloged by Monique Duhaime and Melanie Wisner:
Alfred Thompson Costume Designs (MS Thr 583)