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Margaret Barker papers

Title: Margaret Barker papers, circa 1800-1989 (bulk 1930-1989)
Author: Barker, Margaret, 1908-1992.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 46	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 46	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 45	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 45	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 44	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 44	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 43	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 43	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 42	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 42	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 41	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 41	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 40	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 40	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 39	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 39	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 38	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 38	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 37	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 37	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 36	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 36	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 35	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 35	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 34	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 34	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 33	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 33	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 32	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 32	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 31	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 31	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 30	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 30	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 29	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 29	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 28	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 28	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 27	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1992-003 Box 27	Offsite

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Description

19.61 linear ft. (46 boxes)

Summary

The papers of Margaret Barker consist of personal papers, family papers, diaries, datebooks, correspondence, including letters from family, friends and business associates, legal and financial documents, writings, programs, scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera relating to productions in which she appeared, directed or produced.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Clippings.
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Legal documents.
Scrapbooks.
Scripts (documents)

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available on microfilm as part of the Margaret Barker papers;

Source (note)

Barker, Lewellys F., II and Laura Fernandez.

Biography (note)

Actress, director, writer and producer, Margaret Taylor Baker was born in Baltimore, Md. October 10, 1908, to the physician Dr. Llewellys Franklin Barker and his wife Lillian.

Processing Action (note)

Microfilmed;
Cataloged

Call Number

*T-Mss 1992-003

OCLC

NYPT04-A16

Author

Barker, Margaret, 1908-1992.

Title

Margaret Barker papers, circa 1800-1989 (bulk 1930-1989)

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats

Johnny Johnson : a play in three acts / by Paul Green ; music by Kurt Weill. Typescript. Without music. Box 19, folder 21. Also available on microfilm as part of the Margaret Barker papers; service copy classmark: *ZC-714.

Biography

Actress, director, writer and producer, Margaret Taylor Baker was born in Baltimore, Md. October 10, 1908, to the physician Dr. Llewellys Franklin Barker and his wife Lillian. "Beany," as she was nicknamed, attended the Calvert and Bryn Mawr Schools in Baltimore and then Bryn Mawr College for two years. After her Broadway debut in 1928, she pursued an acting career that spanned five and a half decades and included founding membership in the Group Theatre (1931), work with the Southampton Playhouse (1938), Hilltop Theatre (1941), ANTA Experimental Theatre (1947-1949), Williamstown Theatre Festival (ca. 1959-1967), Manhattan Theatre Club (1977), New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre Company (1981) and the Eugene O'Neill Center in New London, Conn (1982) along with many others. She also acted in numerous live television dramas in the early 1950s and later appeared in a number of soap operas. Ms. Barker was also involved as a director and producer throughout her entire theatrical life and in 1938 she founded the Studio Workshop Theatre with the dancer Felicia Sorel and actor and teacher Frank Westbrook. This school lasted until 1941. Her writings include plays, short stories, poetry and non-fiction pieces. A few of her plays were produced, though none achieved any public success.

Barker's drinking, which had been a problem at least as early as 1941, lead to her involvement with Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1950s, which, in turn, lead to her three decade long association with the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. She also wrote articles for the Analytical Psychology Club Bulletin and directed several of their holiday programs. Margaret Barker died of lung cancer at the age of 83 in 1992.

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Barker, Lewellys F. (Lewellys Franklin), 1867-1943.

Barker, Margaret, 1908-1992.

Barker, Margaret, 1908-1992. Moonlit dome.

Baxter, Alan, 1908-1976.

De Wilde, Brandon, 1942-1972.

Lemay, Harding.

Mall, Franklin P. (Franklin Paine), 1862-1917.

Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.

Purdy, James.

Purdy, James. Color of darkness.

Weingarten, Romain. L'Été.

Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934.

Green, Paul, 1894-1981.

Green, Paul, 1894-1981. Johnny Johnson.

Alcoholics Anonymous.

Analytical Psychology Club of New York.

Group Theatre (U.S.)

Studio Workshop Theatre.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1992-003

*ZC-714 [Microfilm]

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