Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers consist of the correspondence, writings, and research materials of George F. O'Dwyer, author of The Irish Catholic Genesis of Lowell (1920). There are a small number of personal photographs in the collection, as well as programs from theater productions in which O'Dwyer was featured. Most materials pertain to Irish Catholics in New England, specifically in Lowell, Massachusetts, and to O'Dwyer's professional and personal genealogical interests. In...

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Negatives, in Shared box 1715, are not an access medium and are not available for use.

Scope and Contents From the Series: John Paul Barry was born February 13, 1910, in Boston, Massachusetts, and died on October 22, 1990, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He was a 1931 graduate of Boston College. Barry collected programs and a small number of tickets for numerous theatrical productions in a variety of locations: Boston and other Massachusetts towns, New York, N.Y., other East Coast cities, California, Canada, England, Ireland, and the Netherlands. In 1938, Barry won an essay contest sponsored by ...

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Scope and Contents From the Series: Dr. Robert M. Dell was born in New York, N.Y., on October 5, 1920. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at Franklin and Marshall College, Dell joined the United States Navy. Upon his honorable discharge in 1946, he earned a Master's from Columbia in 1949 and a PhD in English from New York University in 1960, and completed post-doctoral work at Cambridge University. Dell then spent more than forty years at Pace University as a professor and as the Chair of the Literature and...

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Phyllis Penn Turin was born November 21, 1931. She married Harold J. Turin in 1956, and died in Newton, Massachusetts, on June 25, 2012. The Turin collection measures 6.25 linear feet and consists of programs from primarily Boston and New York theaters, as well as some larger format souvenir programs. Some programs are annotated with reviews of the performances and names of her fellow attendees.

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Allen E. Beckwith was born May 30, 1914 and died September 24, 1981. This collection is composed primarily of playbills and programs from New York, N.Y., theaters. Also included in the collection is a Selective Service card for Beckwith, placed at the beginning of the programs.

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