Collection contains mainly scrapbooks containing reviews, cast lists and other papers related to Martin's work in local theater companies including Macauley’s Theater, Masonic Theater, Little Theater Company, and the University of Louisville’s UofL Players, and Belknap Players. Also found in the collection are correspondence files including programs, playbills, prompt books, posters, and photos. At The Theatre Notebooks: six volumes, national shows and reviews. Masonic Theatre Notebooks: six volumes, Louisville shows and reviews. University of Louisville Players Notebooks, three volumes, University of Louisville productions. Macauley's Theatre Notebooks, eighteen-volumes, Louisville shows and reviews. The Boyd Martin notebooks contain newspaper clippings, reviews of plays performed, and cast listings from programs of plays presented in Louisville. Many of the reviews were written by Boyd Martin himself.
Dates
- circa 1885-1963
Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers
Extent
Entire Collection: 8.125 linear feet
Creator
- Entire Collection: Martin, Boyd, 1886-1963 (Creator, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections Repository
Ekstrom Library, Lower Level Room 17
Louisville KY 40292
502 852-6752
archives@louisville.edu