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Dear Colleagues,
The AHRC Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection Access for Research
Project is delighted to announce the launch of the redesigned Mander and
Mitchenson website, and the new online catalogue to the Collection at
http://www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk
The catalogue, accessible through the new website, covers the holdings
of the entire research archive at collection level. It then focuses
particularly on the collection's pre-1890 London theatre records at item
level, and also contains a digital media archive of 2,000 images from
the archive collection. The images are attached to the catalogue
records, and are also searchable separately. The website also presents
for the first time a searchable Picture Gallery of the Painting and
Artworks collection.
The three-year project of cataloguing and digitisation was enabled by a
generous Resource Enhancement grant from the AHRC awarded to Dr Sophie
Nield of the Central School of Speech and Drama, and the project was
staffed by Paul Davidson, Kristy Davis and Emily Mitchell, with expert
guidance from Rosemary Firman, Richard Mangan and the Project's
distinguished international advisory panel.
The Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection (MMTC) is one of
the largest collections of theatre and performance related materials in
the UK.
It owes its existence to the extraordinary lifetimes work of Raymond
Mander and Joe Mitchenson, and has at its heart two thousand or more
archive boxes containing playbills, posters, programmes, engravings,
cuttings and production photographs of London and regional theatres.
There are files on every actor and actress of note in the British
theatre, and sections on circus, dance, opera, music-hall, variety,
dramatists, singers and composers, together with many engravings and
pictures. The Collection includes many theatre paintings, as well as set
and costume designs and 500 pottery figures. The Collection also
operates as a picture library.
A charitable trust, the Collection is part of the Jerwood Library of the
Performing Arts, based in Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, London UK
and is staffed by Richard Mangan as Administrator, and Kristy Davis as
Archive Officer/Cataloguer.
This project only represents the first steps in cataloguing the Mander
and Mitchenson Theatre Collection. We estimate that the collection
contains over a million items of ephemera.
We encourage you to visit our website and online catalogue and welcome
all feedback. If you have any enquiries, please contact Kristy Davis at
the MMTC: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Kristy Davis
Archive Officer/Cataloguer
Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts
Trinity College of Music
King Charles Court
Old Royal Naval College
London
SE10 9JF
Phone: 020 8305 4424
Fax: 020 8305 9424
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk
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