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• Author/Creator:Strong, Austin, 1881-1952.
  
• Title:Austin Strong papers, 1899-1951.
  
• Physical Description:7 linear feet (15 boxes)
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 619
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 13-14 (Oversize)
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Uncat Za MS 477 and Uncat Za MS 481
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 619
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-10, 11-12 (Oversize) and 15 (Oversize)
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Uncat Za MS 477 and Uncat Za MS 481
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from Serendipity Books on the Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection Fund, 1996.
  
• Organization:Organized into six series: I. Correspondence, 1905-1948. II. Scripts, 1903-1928. III. Artwork, 1903-1926. IV. Notebooks and Diaries, 1899-1947. V. Scrapbooks and Photographs, 1899-1951. VI. Other Papers, 1907-1946.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Austin Strong, American playwright. Strong was born in San Francisco on April 18, 1881 and grew up in Hawaii. Austin attended Wellington College in New Zealand from 1895 to 1898. He married and settled with his wife, Mary, in Nantucket, where he was well regarded for his preservation initiatives and yearly production of the Nantucket Follies. His plays include The Little Father of the Wilderness (1906), The Toymaker of Nuremberg (1907), The Pied Piper (1908), A Good Little Devil (1913), The Dragon's Claw (1914), Bunny (1916), Three Wise Fools (1918), Seventh Heaven (1922), Drums of Oude (1927), and A Play Without a Name (1928). Several of Strong's plays also became films. He died in Nantucket on September 17, 1952.
  
• Summary:The Austin Strong Papers contain correspondence, theater scripts, artwork, notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, printed material, and professional and personal papers. The papers primarily document Strong's professional work as a playwright, stage designer, theater producer, author, artist, and landscape architect. A small amount of material documents his work as a volunteer air raid warden in the 1940s.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Austin Strong Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Strong, Austin, 1881-1952.
  Air raid wardens--United States.
  Dramatists, American--20th century.
  Artists--United States.
  Authors, American--20th century--Archives.
  Landscape architects--United States.
  Set designers--United States.
  World War, 1939-1945--United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Architectural drawings (visual works)
  Drawings (visual works)
  Photographs.
  Photograph albums.
  Scrapbooks.
  
• Occupation:Air raid wardens United States.
  Artists United States.
  Authors United States 20th century.
  Dramatists United States 20th century.
  Landscape architects United States 20th century.
  Set designers United States 20th century.