Sister Agnes Elliott, RSHM, established the Marymount Manhattan College archive in 1974. See what researchers can do in the archives by reading “Rebel College,” a senior thesis by Kiley Griffith ’13.
The archives, overseen by Mary Brown, are available to scholars and students interested in our collection across a number of topics. If you have a question or are searching for a specific topic, please reach out via email.
The College’s own papers are inventoried and arranged as they are deposited; this collection currently consists of papers, photographs, publications, and three-dimensional objects from the 1940s to the present. The archives is currently working to provide digital access to high-use items. To request a scan of a document, see if the item is archives by checking the guide to MMC Papers and MMC Photos. Check to see if a particular news item might be available in this index to the student newspapers. Please also check the general information about our MMC College Catalogs and MMC College Yearbooks.
George and Ethel Martin began as dancers on Broadway and in movie musicals and moved on to choreography, directing and stage management. Their collection of sixteen boxes includes scores and sheet music for musicals from the 1940s to the 1990s, videotape, and theatre ephemera, such as souvenir jackets given to the cast and crew of Broadway. View the guide to the Martin Papers and the Addendum to the Martin Papers.
Published between 1953 and 2000, Plays and Players was London’s premier theatre news magazine. The archives has a partial run, with an index to reviews, interviews and articles on topics in theatre studies. Link to Plays and Players finding guide.
MMC Professor Richard Niles donated fourteen boxes of material collected for his dissertation on playwright and drag artist Charles Busch. The collection contains advertisements for Charles Busch’s plays and personal appearances, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, reviews, and scripts. It is noteworthy for its transcripts of interviews with Mr. Busch and his associates about their creative process. View the Guide to the Niles/ Busch Papers.
Actress Maureen Anderman appeared in motion pictures, on television, and on stage—Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre—from the 1970s to the 2010s. This fourteen-document-box collection documents her acting career via correspondence, notes for performances, photographs, posters, programs, and scripts. View the finding aid to the Maureen Anderman Papers .
MMC Professor Ray Recht deposited ten document boxes from his work as a set designer on Broadway, off Broadway, in regional and community theatre, in TV programs and commercials, and in film. His materials date from the 1970s through the 2010s, and include scripts, programs, and the sketches, photographs, and papers needed to design sets and to make them work during a performance in pre-computer era. View the finding aid to the Ray Recht Papers.
Friends of the late MMC Professor J. William Bordeau deposited five boxes of correspondence, photographs, programs, promotional items and videotape from his work teaching acting and directing to college students. View the finding aid to the J. William Bordeau Papers.
The library maintains a collection of books too fragile for its shelves here. View the guide to the Rare Books Collection.
