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| Plankinton Bank (Milwaukee, Wis.) | Title: Plankinton Bank Records, 1866-1907 Quantity: 13.0 c.f. (27 archives boxes and 82 volumes) Call Number: Milwaukee Mss K Abstract: Business and financial records of a leading Milwaukee bank from its organization in 1887 under the presidency of John Plankinton until its insolvency on June 1, 1893, under the presidency of Frederick T. Day, and for the ten years under the administrations of several assignees (including William Plankinton, Irving M. Bean, and Henry Herman) following insolvency. The bank closed following the loss of loans made to Frank A. Lappen & Company, a run on deposits, and a failure to reorganize and attract large investors. Records for 1866-1893 include ledgers of various types, registers of foreign items dispatched, correspondence, and other records. For the years after June, 1893, the papers relate to the operations of the several assignees, including assignments, court testimony and miscellaneous legal papers relating to litigation in Milwaukee County Circuit Court concerning the affairs of the bank, and assignee letter books. |
| - - - | Title: Platteville (Wis.) Area Miscellaneous Local Government Records, 1849-1962 Quantity: 4 reels of microfilm (35mm) Call Number: Lafayette Series 40 Abstract: Miscellaneous local records from several localities in the Platteville area, including Shullsburg, Monticello, Seymour, White Oak Springs, Muscoda, Pleasant Valley, and Harrison. Records include school records, ledgers, assessment rolls, court records, and various financial records. |
| - - - | Title: Playbill Collection, circa 1861-circa 1989 Quantity: 35.0 c.f. (35 record center cartons) Call Number: U.S. Mss 120AN Abstract: Miscellaneous theater playbills from both professional and amateur productions, primarily in New York City, Chicago, and Wisconsin (except Milwaukee); filed alphabetically by location and then by title. |
| - - - | Title: “Playhouse 90” Films, 1956-1959 Quantity: 21 film reels and 4 videocassettes Call Number: see list below Abstract: Seven episodes of Playhouse 90, a ninety-minute drama anthology that ran on CBS between 1956 and 1960. All episodes are in black and white with sound. The films are 16mm kinescopes. Videocassettes VBB 616 and VBB 620-621 are 3/4 inch U-Matic viewing copies. Videocassette number VHA 347 is a 1/2 inch VHS viewing copy. All episodes include commercials; products and companies advertised include Kleenex, Renault automobiles, the American Gas Association, Allstate Insurance, and Prestone Antifreeze. |
| - - - | Title: “Playwrights '56” Films, 1955-1956 Quantity: 34 film reels and 2 videocassettes Call Number: see list below Abstract: Fourteen episodes of Playwrights '56, an hour-long dramatic anthology series that shared a time slot on NBC with Armstrong Circle Theatre from 1955 to 1956. All episodes are in black and white with sound. The films are 16 mm kinescopes. The videocassettes are 3/4 in. U-Matic viewing copies. All episodes include commercials for Pontiac cars. |
| Playwrights' Company | Title: Playwrights' Company Records, 1938-1961 Quantity: 30.0 c.f. (68 archives boxes and 7 flat boxes) and 3 tape recordings Call Number: U.S. Mss 1AN; Tape 266A Abstract: Records of a company formed in 1938 to produce plays written by its members: Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, and Robert E. Sherwood. In subsequent years the company admitted Robert W. Anderson, Kurt Weill, and Roger L. Stevens and began producing plays by outside playwrights. The company dissolved in 1960. The bulk of the records relate to the business and legal aspects of theatrical production although information on the artistic aspects of production is also included. The documentation relates to the company's relations with some of the leading American and British theatrical personalities of its era. Among them are Marc Blitzstein, Harold Clurman, Katharine Cornell, Hume Cronyn, Jose Ferrer, Garson Kanin, Elia Kazan, Joshua Logan, Alfred Lunt, Guthrie McClintic, Jo Mielziner, Spencer Tracy, and Margaret Webster. The production files of the company's general manager relate to such award winning plays as Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Darkness at Noon, Dream Girl, Fourposter, Ondine, The Patriots, Tea and Sympathy, and There Shall Be No Night. Included are extensively annotated stage managers' scripts, correspondence, budgets and financial statements, and contracts and agreements. About the organization and general development of the company there are correspondence and memoranda; general agreements and plans; financial records; and minutes of meetings on casting, play selection, and advertising policies. Some correspondence of individual playwright members is included. The collection also includes files on some productions with which Roger Stevens and General Manager Victor Samrock were independently involved. Samrock's files on Miss Liberty contain complete orchestrations by Irving Berlin. Stevens' files contain information on his association with the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy and Producers' Theatre. |
| - - - | Title: Pleasant Ridge Negro Community Documents, 1849-1993 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: Platteville SC 21 Abstract: Photocopied and some original newspaper clippings, photographs, emancipation papers, genealogies of the Greene (a.k.a. Green), Shepard, and Richmond families, letters, court documents, unpublished histories, land certificates, and memorabilia related to an African-American community and its inhabitants. The Pleasant Ridge Negro community, near Lancaster in Beetown township, Grant County, Wisconsin, existed from 1848 to 1959. |
| Pleasant Valley Homemakers Club (Saint Croix County, Wis.) | Title: Pleasant Valley Homemakers Club Records, 1941-1983 Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) Call Number: River Falls Mss CC Abstract: A history and secretary's book of the St. Croix County, Wisconsin, affiliate of the Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council, formed to promote home and community life. Included are minutes, membership records, and descriptions of service activities and special programs. The club was originally named the North Valley Home Economics Club and from 1944 to 1954 was the Pleasant Valley Home Economics Club. |
| Plymouth Church, United Church of Christ | Title: Plymouth Church, United Church of Christ Records, 1841-[ongoing] Quantity: 38.4 cubic ft. (42 boxes); 1 oversize folder; 1 microfilm reel; 7 film reels; 1 videocassette; 6 audio reels; 80 audio cassettes; 22 safety film negatives Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 165 Abstract: Records of the second oldest church in Milwaukee, located on Milwaukee's East Side, dating from the church's founding in 1841 to the present. The collection includes annual reports and meeting minutes; financial records; membership records; newsletters and pamphlets; information about the church's pastors, including their sermons and research materials; photographs; and church club records including the Women's Guild. The collection also includes audio recordings of sermons, lecture series, and oral histories. Since its inception, Plymouth Church has been active in social, political, and religious issues, such as the abolition of slavery, temperance, and more recently, gay and lesbian issues, living with AIDS, and human rights. |