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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:

Steven Abbott Collection of Materials relating to the Gore Vidal Bibliography

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0544
Abstract

Scripts, articles, drafts, correspondence, playbills, artifacts, photographs, memorabilia, audiovisual materials, and other materials related to Steven Abbott’s bibliographic collection on American author, essayist, screenwriter, public intellectual, and socio-political commentator Gore Vidal.

Dates: 1936 - 2013

Suzy Covey General Comic Book Collection

 Collection
Identifier: ufcovey
Abstract

A representative sampling of popular comic books (various titles, publishers and genres) from the late 1940s through 2014.

Dates: 1948-2014

Tim Lawrence Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0570
Abstract

Project files, photographs, artwork, A/V, movie and television props, and other files documenting the life and career of makeup and special effects artist, puppeteer, and actor Tim Lawrence. Tim Lawrence, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, had an extensive career in Hollywood working on numerous projects including Michael Jackson’s THRILLER, BEETLEJUICE, GHOSTBUSTERS 1 and 2, GREMLINS 2, HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, HOWARD THE DUCK, JURASSIC PARK, and more.

Dates: 1974 - 2019

Trevor "Tommy" Bale Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0516
Abstract

Unpublished autobiography, agreements, correspondence, articles, circus tour cards, and circus programs concerning legendary tiger trainer, acrobat, aerialist, ringmaster and clown, Trevor "Tommy" Bale and writer Walter B. Gibson (famed ghostwriter for magicians Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, and Harry Blackstone, and the creator of one of pulp fiction's most enduring characters, "The Shadow").

Dates: 1955 - 1957

Will McLean Florida Folk Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0401
Abstract The private and professional life of Florida's "Black Hat Troubadour," Will McLean (aka the "Father of Florida Folk"), from his birth in Chipley, Florida in 1919 to his passing in 1990. The collection also represents the 20th Century Florida Folk scene populated with many of Will McLean's friends, colleagues and collaborators including Margaret Longhill ("The Matriarch of Florida Folk"), Gamble Rogers, Cousin Thelma Boltin, Dale Crider, Don Grooms, Donna Green-Townsend, Kate Bostrum, Red...
Dates: 1885 - 2000