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The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

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The New Deal Stage: Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939, includes photographs, stage and costume designs, and notebooks pertaining to productions of Macbeth, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, and Power, a topical drama of the period. Full scripts for 68 other plays are also available, along with Administrative Records of the Federal Theatre Project.

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Four Illustrated Articles

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The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945

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