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04. Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts

 Classification
Identifier: 04
This directory lists manuscript and archival collections related to the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts.

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Efrain Barradas Mexican and Cuban Film Poster Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UFBarradas
Abstract Dr. Ramón A. Figueroa, Associate Professor of Spanish at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi (2002 - 2020) began collecting Mexican film posters in 1994 as a hobby. The collection grew to one of the great private Spanish Language poster collections in the world, (including a secondary collecting interest in Cuban film posters). Dr. Figueroa credits his former teacher, Dr. Efrain Barradas (Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida Center for Latin...
Dates: 1939-2007

Ellas B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0409
Abstract

Publications, correspondence, contracts, concert posters, tour itineraries, lyrics, albums, photographs, awards, instruments, clothes, and artifacts belonging to American R&B singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer, Bo Diddley (Ellas McDaniel), who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

Dates: 1957 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2007

Eugene E. Grissom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0389
Abstract

The collection represents a sampling of the music research collected by University of Florida Professor Eugene E. Grissom, a professional musician (trombone), historian, art collector and educator, including ephemeral research resources, compiled over a 70 year period, with emphasis on the career of jazz legend Frank Rosolino and the jazz world, in general. Biographical ephemera, pertaining to the life and career of Professor Grissom, is also included.

Dates: c. 1940-2009

Jim Liversidge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ufliversidge
Abstract

Collection of "Baby Boom" pop culture history that includes highlights from politics, television, cinema, theatre, music, sports and day-to-day current events.

Dates: 1900-2023

John David Ridge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0425
Abstract

Costume sketches, notes, photographs, and ephemera, belonging to theatre, cinema, television and dance costume designer, John David Ridge.

Dates: 1890 - 2020; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2020

John W. Lindell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: uflindell
Abstract

Collection of cartoon, comic strip and animation art anthologies and histories collected by John W. Lindell from 1953 through 2007. The collection includes close to 1,000 books by individual artists and 220 books of anthologies published by various magazines. There are also 150 paperback (pocket) books of individual artists and comic strip anthologies.

Dates: 1905-2007

Lillian Schneider Bartell Playbill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ufbartell
Abstract

Theatre playbills, primarily for Broadway productions but also for productions off-Broadway and in Florida.

Dates: 1939 - 1974

Martin Harris Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0368
Abstract Professional photographs (color and black and white), photo negatives (color and black and white), color photo slides, proof (or contact) sheets, publications, books and biographical ephemera featuring the work of career news and entertainment photographer Martin Harris whose art was featured in most of the major newspaper and magazines of the mid 2Oth Century (PM NEW YORK, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LITERARY DIGEST, PICTURE POST, LIFE, COLLIER'S, STARS AND STRIPES, YANK, FORTUNE, PRINTER'S...
Dates: Circa 1925-1970

Preston Wood Script Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0513
Abstract

One of the more prolific of scriptwriters from the "Golden Age" of radio and television drama and comedy, Preston Wood has produced an amazing and varied list of credits in his sixty-year career. The PRESTON WOOD SCRIPT COLLECTION spans every genre from the western to science fiction and includes many of the classic television episodes cited by broadcast historians and baby boomer fans of the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Dates: 1942 - 1983

Robert Strassburg Collection on Ernest Bloch

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0517
Abstract

Research material gathered by the noted educator, composer, conductor and musicologist, Dr. Robert Strassburg (1915-2003), focusing on the career and life of composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959).

Dates: 1880 - 2005