Box/Location
Folder
Description
theater box 80
a 1
Model --- Photographs of stage model.
theater box 80
a 2
Model --- Specifications - "Numbering System for Models".
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b 1
Scene Renderings --- "The earth opens and in the sulphurous green of the inferno Dante and Virgil descend," sanguine chalk.
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b 2
Scene Renderings --- "At the beginning of his search for infinity, Dante is stopped by the three beasts," sanguine chalk.
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b 3
Scene Renderings --- "Above Dante and Virgil winged creatures in yellow light, and in the shadows the damned emerge," sanguine chalk.
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b 4
Scene Renderings --- "Dante talks with the condemned souls across the orange-lit pit of hell," sanguine chalk.
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b 5
Scene Renderings --- "Circles of agonizing souls and immense wavering shadows in a glare of crimson," sanguine chalk.
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b 6
Scene Renderings --- "Purgatory in atmosphere of blue and violet, "Even the rocks seem to be angels," sanguine chalk.
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b 7
Scene Renderings --- "In a path of blue-white light Beatrice steps down from her chariot to meet Dante," sanguine chalk.
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b 8
Scene Renderings --- "Beatrice and Dante ascend in blinding light from purgatory to heaven," sanguine chalk.
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b 9
Scene Renderings --- "Dante meets with three beasts," sanguine chalk.
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b 10
Scene Renderings --- "The eyes of the beast divide and subdivide," sanguine chalk.
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b 11
Scene Renderings --- "Dante standing on the wall," sanguine chalk.
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b 12
Scene Renderings --- "Dante and Virgil prepare to descend," sanguine chalk.
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b 13
Scene Renderings --- "The forms droop, crumble and collapse into the chasm," sanguine chalk.
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b 14
Scene Renderings --- "The ground begins to rise and move," sanguine chalk.
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b 15
Scene Renderings --- "The movement is the convulsion of decayed humanity," sanguine chalk.
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b 16
Scene Renderings --- "Dante and the pair of lovers," sanguine chalk.
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b 17
Scene Renderings --- "The Multitude challenges the passage of a Living One to the depths," sanguine chalk.
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b 18
Scene Renderings --- "O! Thou sweet light upon this novel journey do thou lead me," sanguine chalk.
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b 19
Scene Renderings --- "Beatrice appears in a bolt of light," sanguine chalk.
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b 20
Scene Renderings --- "Dante emerges from inferno to purgatory," sanguine chalk.
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b 21
Scene Renderings --- "The light has risen and divided itself more, revealing towers," sanguine chalk (1 of 2).
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b 22
Scene Renderings --- "The light has risen and divided itself more, revealing towers," sanguine chalk (2 of 2).
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b 23
Scene Renderings --- "Dante sees a vision of Beatrice," sanguine chalk.
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b 24
Scene Renderings --- "Dante meets Beatrice," sanguine chalk.
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b 25
Scene Renderings --- "Virgil reassures Dante," sanguine chalk.
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b 26
Scene Renderings --- "The earth-forms rise in groups and divide," watercolor.
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b 27
Scene Renderings --- "A winged figure jumps over his head," watercolor.
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b 28
Scene Renderings --- "Two winged guardians of Purgatory," watercolor.
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b 29
Scene Renderings --- "Dante meets Beatrice," watercolor.
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b 30
Scene Renderings --- "Dante and Virgil watch the winged harpies across the chasm," charcoal.
oversize box 20
e 1-6
Preliminary Sketches --- Scenes and stage settings.
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e 7-10
Preliminary Sketches --- Sanguine and pencil sketches.
theater box 80
e 11
Preliminary Sketches --- List of subjects for sketches and compositions.
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e 12
Preliminary Sketches --- Sketches of stage.
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f 1
Drawings --- Sketch 001, Plan of stage.
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f 2
Drawings --- Drawing 1, Plan of stage adapted to Madison Square Garden.
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 3
Drawings --- Drawing 3, Model of stage, half plan of steps (encapsulated, 39 x 73 1/2 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 4
Drawings --- Drawing 4, Model of stage, front elevation (encapsulated, 33 1/2 x 67 3/4 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 5
Drawings --- Drawing 6, Model of stage, half plan of foundation (encapsulated, 37 1/2 x ca. 75 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 6
Drawings --- Drawing 7, Model of stage, section along line A-M (encapsulated, 33 x 74 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 7
Drawings --- Drawing 8, Model of stage, section of stage along line C-P (encapsulated, 33 3/4 x 72 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 8
Drawings --- Drawing 9, Model of stage, section of stage on line E-R (encapsulated, 34 x ca. 75 inches).
oversize flat files, drawer 3
f 9
Drawings --- Drawing 10, Model of stage, section of stage on line G-T (encapsulated, 33 3/4 x 73 1/4 inches).
theater box 80
g 0
Production Scripts --- Production record book title pages.
theater box 80
g 1
Production Scripts --- A Project for a Theatrical Presentation of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1924), copy 1.
Book Collection
g 2-3
Production Scripts --- Copies 2 and 3, cataloged as monographs in Theatre Arts Library.
theater box 80
g 4
Production Scripts --- Typed ms. with autograph revisions of A Project ...
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g 5
Production Scripts --- Timed script outline of first 30 minutes of production.
oversize box 20
g 6
Production Scripts --- Original notes on sixty minutes of production.
oversize box 21
g 7
Production Scripts --- Page showing twenty-first minute.
theater box 80
h 2
Photographs --- Photograph Record Book by Bruguière.
oversize box 21
h 3
Photographs --- 27 Photographs of sanguine drawings of scenes.
theater box 81
h 4
Photographs --- Captions.
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h 5
Photographs --- Stage set (Bruguière #407).
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h 6
Photographs --- Stage set (Bruguière #409).
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h 7
Photographs --- "Earth half opens" (Bruguière).
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h 8
Photographs --- "Soldiers of Dis" (Bruguière #13).
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h 9
Photographs --- "Sobbing bodies emerge" (Bruguière).
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h 10
Photographs --- "Winged figure jumps over Dante" (Bruguière).
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h 11
Photographs --- "Rain of fire" (Bruguière #103).
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h 12
Photographs --- "Dante emerges from Inferno to Purgatory" (Bruguière #30).
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h 13
Photographs --- "Ascent of Dante in sphere of eternal light" (Bruguière #21).
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h 14
Photographs --- "Light from above" (Bruguière).
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h 15
Photographs --- "Dante meets Beatrice" (Bruguière).
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h 16
Photographs --- "Final scene: Paradise" (Bruguière #3).
theater box 81
h 17-18
Photographs --- Photos of masks.
theater box 81
h 19
Photographs --- 28 Prints for publication.
negative box 54
h 20a-b
Photographs --- Negatives of masks and Soldiers of Dis. [10 damaged] [nitrate]
theater box 81
h 21
Photographs --- List of photos.
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h 22-28
Photographs --- Photos of scene renderings.
theater box 81
h 29
Photographs --- Photo and explanation of model.
oversize box 21
h 30
Photographs --- Model stage.
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h 31-36
Photographs --- Model stage (continued).
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h 37
Photographs --- Model stage (continued).
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h 38
Photographs --- Model stage (continued).
theater box 81
h 39
Photographs --- HRC copy photos.
theater box 81
h 40
Photographs --- HRC copy photos of drawings, renderings, sketches, and models; 1 negative of a plan and elevation.
theater box 81
i 1
Publicity --- Articles and reviews, 1922-1930.
theater box 82
i 9
Publicity --- Articles and reviews, 1922-1930 (continued).
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i 6
Publicity --- Photostat of clipping 1924.
theater box 82
j 1
Correspondence --- NBG - Aline Barnsdall, James Byrne, Edward Gordon Craig, Arthur Farwell, Edith J.R. Isaacs, Otto H. Kahn, Roger H. Sessions et al.
theater box 82
k 1-2
Script --- Annotated volume of Divine Comedy translated by C. E. Norton. Second copy.
oversize box 21
n 1
Blueprints of sketch stage plan.
theater box 83
n 2-3
Photocopies of timed script (g 5).
theater box 83
n 4
Photocopy of Norton Divine Comedy volume (k 1).
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o 1
Cost estimates, 1926, undated.
theater box 83
p 1
Production Specifications --- Outline of action.
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p 2
Production Specifications --- Key to actors.
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p 3
Production Specifications --- Distribution of earth forms.
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q 1
Source Material --- Inferno diagram.
theater box 83
y 1-2
Autobiography draft and notes with commentary.