BROOKLYN COLLEGE LIBRARY ARCHIVES

AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Accession Number #88-001

Container List  

SUB – GROUP I: PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

Box 1
BC / Alumni Association

BC / Class materials
BC / Correspondence (Memos and Agenda Letters)
BC / Correspondence, Notes
BC / Correspondence from noted Alumnus
BC / Correspondence - “Thank you letters”

BC / Correspondence, Flyers, etc.

BC / Foundation dinner Honoring Arthur Levitt

BC / Handwritten notes
BC / Promotion Grievance & Materials in Support of Grievance
BC / Roll Book 1930 – 1933BC / Roll Book 1936
BC / Roll Book 1939 – 1940BC / Roll Book 1940 -- 1941
BC / Roll Book 1941
BC / Speech Dept. Teaching Materials

SUB – GROUP II: JOSEPH DAVIDSON AS A STUDENT

Box 1 (Continued)
Graduate School notes Oct. /Nov. 1930
NYU PhD Dissertation Proposal

Box 2
Research Thesis / notebook
Teaching notes and exercises
Teachers College / Graduate notes and speech exercises
Undergraduate class notes (Boston University)

SUB –GROUP III: PLAYS / THEATER – RELATED MATERIAL

Box 2 (Continued)
Correspondence / Theater
Handbills / Student Flyers - Theatre Productions

Lesson Plans / Freshman speech classes
Play / “Oklahoma!” by Oscar Hammerstein

BC / Theatre Department -Budget Summary
Theater Playbills 1932 – 1963

Theater Playbills 1963 – 1980

Box 3
Theater Plays / not directed by Prof. Davidson (attended)
Theatre Programs (Actors’ Equity Golden Anniversary Show), 1963

Theatre Programs (A Bintel Brief)
Theatre Programs (Blood Wedding)
Theatre Programs (The Dybbuk)
Theatre Programs (Galileo)
Theatre Programs (The Haggadah)
Theatre Programs (Swing Music Concert 1936)
Theatre Programs (The Visit)
Prompt Book “Death of a salesman” 1955

Prompt Book “Frogs” by Aristophanes

Prompt Book “The Golem”

Box 4

Prompt Book “The lost Princess”

Prompt Book “The Miser” by Moliere’s

Yiddish Eternal Light Radio Program
Yiddish Magazine Articles, Clippings, and information about Judaism
Yiddish Playbills and Flyers

Box 5
Yiddish Playbills and Prompt Book
Yiddish Poems, Short Stories, and Student Papers
Theatre Design set cards

SUB – GROUP IV: BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

Box 6
Carnegie, Dale - The Unknown Lincoln
Drinkwater, John - Abraham Lincoln
Kuperberg, Yonatan - Job the Hunchback
Lorant, Stefan - The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Meserve, Frederick Hill - The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare - The Winter’s Tale

Thomas, Benjamin P. - Portrait for Posterity
Thomas, Isaac - The Words of Abraham Lincoln
Zangwill, Israel - The King of Shnorrers
The Crime at Ford’s Theater

Lincoln, the Play, at Chelsea Theater Center by Saul Levitt
Lincoln Memorial - Pamphlet

SUB – GROUP V: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/ THEATER PRODUCTIONS

Box 7
Newspaper Clippings
Newspaper Clippings (Dealing with Professional Career)
Newspaper Clippings about Yiddish Theatre

SUB – GROUP VI: PERSONAL/ CORRESPONDENCE/ MEMORABILIA

Box 7 (Continue)
BC Awards and Certificates
Christmas Cards / Get Well Wishes, Invitations
Correspondence – Army Entertainment

Correspondence (personal)
Correspondence – re tribute dinners, etc.

Correspondence / Thank-you’s relating to professional activities

Correspondence / Miscellaneous items
Family Information
Memorial Service Flyers
Resume / Professional Letters of Recommendation
Retirement Press Release
Retirement Tribute Flyer

Box 8
CUP / “Presented to Joseph Davidson by the B.C. Players, December 1930”

Box 9

From Committee on Scholarships, Honors and Awards of the SGS
25 Years of Friendship and Guidance to the Players of BC 1930 – 1955

Outstanding service to inter-fraternity council May, 1964
Michael Davidson’s Music Notebook 1953

Box 10
Joseph Davidson Scrapbook 1930 – 1933

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook 1933 (includes article by Irwin Shaw)
Joseph Davidson Scrapbook 1934 – March 1936

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook March 1936 – May 1938

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook March 1938 – Feb.1940

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Feb.1940 – Nov. 1941

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Dec.1941 – May 1944

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Feb. 1944 – Apr. 1945

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Oct. 1945 – Jan. 1947

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Jan. 1947 – Jan. 1948

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Feb. 1948 – Dec. 1948

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Dec. 1948 – Apr. 1949

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook Oct. 1949 – Apr. 1950

Joseph Davidson Scrapbook B.C. Theatre (Skipper)
Joseph Davidson Scrapbook “My Theatre Record Plays I have seen”

SUB – GROUP VII: PHOTOGRAPHS/ PLAQUES/ AWARD/ FRAMES

Box 11
Frames (5)
Photographs and slides Part I
Photographs and slides Part II
Photographs – Personal
Photographs for Retirement Tribute
Photographs from Yiddish Theatre
Slides (“Hogan’s Goat”)