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Box 1

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

E. R. Mesnier Personal Materials

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Membership cards, Shaw Society of Chicago, 1957-1960; business card, Commencement Program, Washington University, 1929.

Dates: 1950-1961

Newspaper Clippings, 1951-1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Includes: Notice of Black Girl Collection being shown in Oberlin College's Carnegie Library (undated, unidentified paper). Article on Shaw and a display of his letters and drawings in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1953 January 25. Article on Earl Mesnier and his collection of Shaviana (including ...
Dates: 1951-1954

Exhibition Schedule

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

This exhibit consisted of George Bernard Shaw drawings and John Farleigh prints from the Mesnier-Zeltman collection and was held at the City Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri in 1953.

Dates: 1950-1961

Letters to Earl Mesnier, 1958-1961

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

TLS, H. M. Geduld to E. R. Mesnier, 1958-1959, including Shaw's notes on Cain and a list of productions of Back to Methuselah, 1922-1958. Letters from others to ERM discussing membership in Shaw Society and collecting George Bernard Shaw.

Dates: 1958-1961

Brochures, Meeting Announcements, and Publications of Shaw Society

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes:


  1. Shaw Society (London) Constitution, 1956.
  2. Shaw Society Meeting Announcements, 1959-1960 (2 items).
  3. 2 Shaw Society (London) Tracts: Creative Evolution, 1950 (#1) and The Case for Equality, 1958 December (#6).
Dates: 1950-1961

International Federation for Theatre Research Information Leaflet

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content Note From the collection:

This collection contains Shaw Society membership cards; an exhibition schedule from the City Art Museum, St. Louis, of the Mesnier-Zeltman Collection of Sketches [and] Shaw drawings, 1953; letters to Mesnier discussing collecting Shaviana; and brochures, meeting announcements, programs, tracts, and newsletters produced by the Shaw Society, 1956-1961.

Dates: 1950-1961

Shaw Society of Chicago: Programs, etc., 1957-1959

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes:


  1. The Shaw Society of Chicago program for 1957 and 1958 reading series from the works and plays of GBS.
  2. Theatre Chicago, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1959 January).
  3. Cast list of The Black Girl in Search of God.
Dates: 1957-1959

Shaw Society of Chicago Newsletters, 1956 October, 1957 January-1959 Summer

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content Note From the collection:

This collection contains Shaw Society membership cards; an exhibition schedule from the City Art Museum, St. Louis, of the Mesnier-Zeltman Collection of Sketches [and] Shaw drawings, 1953; letters to Mesnier discussing collecting Shaviana; and brochures, meeting announcements, programs, tracts, and newsletters produced by the Shaw Society, 1956-1961.

Dates: 1956 October, 1957 January-1959 Summer

Shaw Society of Chicago Newsletters, 1960 January-November

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content Note From the collection:

This collection contains Shaw Society membership cards; an exhibition schedule from the City Art Museum, St. Louis, of the Mesnier-Zeltman Collection of Sketches [and] Shaw drawings, 1953; letters to Mesnier discussing collecting Shaviana; and brochures, meeting announcements, programs, tracts, and newsletters produced by the Shaw Society, 1956-1961.

Dates: 1960 January-November

The Regional Newsletter, 1957 August-1960 December

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content Note From the collection:

This collection contains Shaw Society membership cards; an exhibition schedule from the City Art Museum, St. Louis, of the Mesnier-Zeltman Collection of Sketches [and] Shaw drawings, 1953; letters to Mesnier discussing collecting Shaviana; and brochures, meeting announcements, programs, tracts, and newsletters produced by the Shaw Society, 1956-1961.

Dates: 1957 August-1960 December