Theatre in the archive: processing the Larson Collection

In 2010, Georgia Larson donated a collection of nineteenth-century theatre memorabilia to Special Collections and Archives at California State University, Sacramento. These consisted mainly of autographs that her husband Dr. Gerard Larson had collected while working as a professor at CSUS. This memorabilia came to the archive with little original order, in need of arrangement, processing and description. To complete the project not only did the candidate rely on her training, she also relied on historical studies of nineteenth-century theatre and works related to archival arrangement, processing and description. By arranging, processing and describing this collection, the candidate was not only able to build upon her learning, she was also able to contribute to the study of theatre history by helping to make this collection available to the public.