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Emeline Clark Roche papers

Title: Emeline Clark Roche papers, 1815-1988.
Author: Roche, Emeline Clark, 1902-1995.
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 30	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 30	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 29	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 29	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 28	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 28	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 27	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 27	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 26	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 26	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 25	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 25	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 24	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 24	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 23D	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 23D	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 23C	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 23C	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 23B	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 23B	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 23A	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 23A	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 22	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 22	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 21	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 21	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 20	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 20	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 19	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 19	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 18	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 18	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 17	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 17	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 16	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 16	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 15	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 15	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 14	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1996-016 Box 14	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Additional Authors

Morse, Frank P.

Found In

p1bc Emeline Clark Roche collection. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A0.

Description

19.5 lf. (33 boxes)

Summary

The Emeline Roche papers include correspondence, manuscripts, contracts, financial records, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings and memorabilia, set, costume and lighting designs, drawings and renderings, original artwork and extensive research files.

Subject

Biography (note)

Emeline Clark Roche was a set and costume designer who at various stages in her career was involved in other aspects of theatrical production including lighting design and stock company management.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in the repository and on the Internet.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Emeline Clark Roche collection.

Call Number

*T-Mss 1996-016

OCLC

NYPW98-A1

Author

Roche, Emeline Clark, 1902-1995.

Title

Emeline Clark Roche papers, 1815-1988.

Biography

Emeline Clark Roche was a set and costume designer who at various stages in her career was involved in other aspects of theatrical production including lighting design and stock company management. Ms. Roche also worked as a technical designer for New York City stage, television and stock productions as well as a designer of commercial productions.

Emeline Roche was born on October 3, 1902. She studied at the Art Students' League, the New York School of Fine Art, and with Norman Bel-Geddes, later continuing on his staff for four years as an assistant draftsperson. During 1935-1936, she served on the faculty of the Florence Cane School of Art.

Beginning in the late twenties until 1939, she was involved with The Actor-Managers, Inc. run by Helen Arthur, Agnes Morgan, Aline Bernstein and Clara A. Weiss. She staged stock productions for that organization at the Newport Casino Theatre and Ann Arbor, among other venues. She was the stage manager for the touring companies of Ruth Draper and Angna Enters. Ms. Roche also worked as a technical supervisor for Aline Bernstein and Robert Edmond Jones.

During the thirties and forties, she was a technical assistant and costume designer for Herbert Shumlin, Gilbert Miller, Charles Froman, Inc. and the Theater Guild, designing Broadway productions including GRAND HOTEL, STATE OF THE UNION, ANIMAL KINGDOM and THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN.

During World War II, Emeline Roche contributed her time and talents to the Stage Door Canteen and was the co-designer of the set for the original canteen. She served on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Wing War Service Inc. She also worked as an army aircraft spotter.

She joined the United Scenic Artists, Local 829 in 1927 and worked as a volunteer with the union from that time until her death in 1995. From 1947-1954 she served as recording secretary of the union and corresponded with designers including Jo Mielziner. After the War she assisted Lee Simonson designing the setting for the Metropolitan Opera's 1947-1948 production of THE RING CYCLE.

From 1948 until 1954 Emeline Roche served as the costume designer for New York City Center drama productions. She also designed the costumes for the ANTA annual benefit at the Ziegfeld Theatre from 1949-1950 and again in 1955. She also served as technical designer for the television show THE KATE SMITH HOUR, which ran until October 1951, and worked as a designer of exhibitions and pageants for corporations.

Emeline Roche was a close friend and associate of Jane Cowl whom she met while in a stock production of RAIN FROM HEAVEN. They later both served on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Wing during World War II. It is during this time that they became personal friends. After Jane Cowl's death in 1950, Emeline Roche organized the memorial in her honor and later purchased some of Jane Cowl's property at auction in 1952. Emeline Roche died in 1995 at the age of 93.

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