Materials in the Collections of the Music Division
![federal theatre project stage design](images/ftp_James Stuart Morcom.jpg)
James Stuart Morcom (b. 1906)
Stage Design
Gouache, colored pencil, and
wash on illustration board
Music Division
WPA Transfer
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Online Materials | Special
Collections
The Music Division holds
extensive collections of materials from both the Federal
Music Project and
the Federal
Theatre Project.
Online Materials
The
New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project,
1935-1939
The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related
projects established during the first term of President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration
(WPA). This online presentation includes images of items
selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the
Library of Congress. More...
Special Collections
Library of Congress
The
U.S. Work Projects Administration Federal Music Project
The Library's collection consists of agency reports,
programs, catalogs, index cards, lists, correspondence,
questionnaires, clippings, some music scores and parts,
a few writings, and the papers of George Allen Foster,
regional director for New York and New England. A more
extensive description of the collection is available from
the collection's finding
aid [PDF/89.6 KB; requires the free Adobe
Acrobat reader to view].
Federal Theatre Project Collection
The Library's collection consists of correspondence, memoranda,
play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals,
publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings,
scrapbooks, charts, costume and set designs, blue-prints,
posters, addressograph plates, photographs, negatives, slides,
playbills, and other records documenting the role of the
Federal Theatre Project in laying the groundwork during the
New Deal years for much innovation in the theater. A more
extensive description of the collection is available from the
collection's finding
aid.
External
Collections
Many related administrative records from these projects
may be found in the National Archives and Records Administration, Records
of the Work Projects Administration [WPA] (Record
Group 69), Washington, DC.
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