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Federal Theatre Project Collection Preview
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Music Division, Library of Congress


Browse: Productions of Macbeth, Power, and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
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This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images). The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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Special Presentation:
Four Illustrated Articles

Related Online Exhibit:
Coast to Coast: The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939


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