One of the most fascinating and eclectic collections in the division is the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Collection. A series of private, experimental, and radio broadcast recordings made at Columbia University, principally during the 1930s,
the Brander Matthews Collection comprises a wide range of spoken arts, including documentaries, speeches, interviews, and
prose and poetry readings. Representative women in it include Anna Roosevelt Dall (1906-1975), daughter of Franklin D. and
Eleanor Roosevelt; actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901-1979) [picture]; writer Fannie Hurst (1889-1968), and poets Harriet Monroe (1860-1936) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
[picture] reading their own poetry. This collection can be searched by name, literary title, keyword, and subject in the Library's
online catalog.
