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[Opening Scene of Play]

Description: Photograph of the opening scene of "Heaven Bound," a Dorothy Ingram production. The play is being performed at 6th Street Baptist Church. There is a large staircase build on the stage, and performers are dressed in white gowns with wings. The back of the photograph is a postcard.
Date: 1946
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Photograph of Sunbonnet Sue Operetta]

Description: Photograph of Sunbonnet Sue Operetta cast at Tyrell Elementary School. Rows of students are lined up and wearing mostly agricultural costumes. Janis Joplin is the fifth child from the right. Behind the children, there is a backdrop of a night scene set along the stage curtain. A mixed group of adults and children are seated before the stage.
Date: 1954-05~
Creator: Rice Studio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Museum of the Gulf Coast

[Smoky Wilson Announcing the Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medical Show]

Description: Photograph of Smoky Wilson announcing a performance of Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medicine Show at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. In the photograph, Smoky is wearing a coonskin cap and bandanna over a floral shirt, jeans, and suspenders. A large crowd sits on the grassy hill around him as they prepare to watch the performance.
Date: [1983-09-07..1983-09-10]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medical Show]

Description: Photograph of Malcolm Derden, portraying Dr. Millard from Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medicine Show. Malcolm speaks into a microphone in front of a large yellow painted backdrop. He wears a white vest over black pants, a black bow tie, and a black cowboy hat.
Date: [1983-09-07..1983-09-10]
Creator: Derden, Winston
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medical Show]

Description: Photograph of Malcolm Derden and Smoky Wilson performing on stage at the Texas Folklife Festival as part of Dr. Millard J. Dresden's Old Time Medicine Show. Smoky is wearing a coonskin cap and a red bandanna over a floral shirt, jeans, and suspenders. Malcolm plays the role of Dr. Millard, wearing a white vest, shirt, black pants, black bow tie, and a black cowboy hat.
Date: [1983-09-07..1983-09-10]
Creator: Derden, Winston
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Otis F. Richardson to Sterling Houston - February 24, 2003]

Description: Letter from Otis F. Richardson to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes as an old friend, and sends photocopied pages of a magazine article in THING, in which Houston was profiled. A fourth page shows some of Richardson's work as an illustrator. He discloses to Houston that he would like to start a line of gay and lesbian greeting cards. He has included three of these mock-ups in the letter as well.
Date: February 24, 2003
Creator: Richardson, Otis F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston - August 17, 2003]

Description: Letter from Sandra Cisneros to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to congratulate him for receiving a 2003 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award, a fifteen hundred dollar award with no restrictions as to its use. A second letter is included that reads as a press release for the award, with mention of other award winners and the award history.
Date: August 17, 2003
Creator: Cisneros, Sandra
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Linda Koulisis - July 25, 1981]

Description: Letter from Linda Koulisis, production manager of the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, on behalf of Sterling Houston. She is writing a letter of recommendation for the playwright, whom she praises in the short letter.
Date: July 25, 1981
Creator: Koulisis, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Edward D. Garza to Sterling Houston - August 6, 2003]

Description: Letter from Edward D. Garza, mayor of the city of San Antonio, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. He writes to invite him to join the Cultural Collaborative Steering Committee, a group composed of leaders in the arts community. The members, chosen from the private and public sector, would have a say in the growth and support of San Antonio's cultural sector.
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: Garza, Edward D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Michele Autenrieth to Sterling Houston - May 6, 1997]

Description: Letter from Michele Autenrieth, account executive of Guerra DeBerry & Company, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to invite him to be a judge for the Annual Citicorp Employee Art Contest, where Citicorp employees present sculptures, paintings, and other forms of art.
Date: May 6, 1997
Creator: Autenrieth, Michele
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[The Cultural Collaborative Plans and Itineary]

Description: Typed documents on The Cultural Collaborative (TCC): A Community Plan for San Antonio's Creative Economy. Established as a committee composed of arts and cultural leaders in San Antonio, the TCC's job was to develop and cultivate San Antonio's creative industry. The documents have various bullet points and strategies on ways this can be done. The last page is a schedule of events that span from December 2002 to January 2004.
Date: 2002
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston - September 5, 2003]

Description: Letter from Dr. Paul Harford to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. He writes sending him a list of information regarding medication and treatment of the HIV virus. His last item on the list is the contact information of a physician, Dr. Luis Alfredo Cisneros.
Date: September 5, 2003
Creator: Harford, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Kjersti Sweger to Sterling Houston]

Description: Letter from Kjersti Sweger, copy editor of The Trinitonian - campus newspaper of Trinity University - to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to thank him for his photos, which were used in a story published by the newspaper.
Date: unknown
Creator: Sweger, Kjersti
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Tanya Palmer and Adrien-Alice Hansel to Sterling Houston - May 20, 2004]

Description: Letter from Tanya Palmer and Adrien-Alice Hansel of the Actors Theatre in Louisville to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. They write to invite him to send plays for future production in their company. They thank his past contributions and invite him to also participate in the national Ten-Minute Play Contest.
Date: May 20, 2004
Creator: Palmer, Tanya & Hansel, Adrien-Alice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Linnet Taylor to a CAN Gathering Participant - June 2, 2004]

Description: Letter from Linnet Taylor, program assistant of creativity and culture of the Rockefeller Foundation. She sends the letter to a "CAN gathering participant" with a copy of Creative Community: the Art of Community Cultural Development; presumably, a publication by the Foundation.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Taylor, Linnet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Midge Graybeal to Sterling Houston - December 27, 1990]

Description: Letter from Midge Graybeal, executive director of the San Antonio Business Committee for the Arts, to Sterling Houston, prominent local playwright. She writes to inform him of his nomination for the 1991 Artist of the Year. The award event will encompass a daytime luncheon where the winner will be announced.
Date: December 27, 1990
Creator: Graybeal, Midge
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[E-mail from Claudia Ladensohn - October 9, 2002]

Description: E-mail letter from Claudia Ladensohn of the Texas Commission on the Arts to Jon Hinojosa, Catherine Cisneros, Lyn Bobbitt, and Sterling Houston. She is writing to confirm an event that will take place in a couple of months, and to send a tentative schedule of the day's event.
Date: December 27, 1990
Creator: Ladensohn, Claudia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[E-mail from Amy Wegener, Tanya Palmer, and Michael Bigelow Dixon to Sterling Houston - February 2001]

Description: Letter from Amy Wegener, Tanya Palmer, and Michael Bigelow Dixon of the Actors Theatre of Louisville to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. They are writing to inform him that they picked one of his plays for inclusion in that year's Humana Festival of New American Plays.
Date: February 2001
Creator: Wegener, Amy; Palmer, Tanya & Dixon, Michael Bigelow
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[E-mail from Tanya Palmer to Sterling Houston - November 27, 2000]

Description: Letter from Tanya Palmer of the Actors Theatre of Louisville to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes to send him a Commission Agreement that needs to be signed by Houston to allow for a collaboration between the Actors Theatre and Houston's theatre group, the Jump-Start Performance Company. A fax transmission report that was sent back to Tanya is also included as well as a copy of "Message Sent", the play entered for submission to the Actors Theatre.
Date: November 27, 2000
Creator: Palmer, Tanya
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from William W. Cook - April 7, 1998]

Description: Letter from William W. Cook, chair of the National Black Theatre Summit at Dartmouth College, to participants of the National Black Theatre Summit. He writes to thank those involved for their work and participation. The gathering comprised of a conference and discussions on the future of theatre affecting, concerning, or about African-Americans. Several initiatives are mentioned, mandates that have been met, and areas that still need attention.
Date: April 7, 1998
Creator: Cook, William W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Park Chambers, Tim Doud, and Lawrence Steger to Sterling Houston - December 22, 1992]

Description: Letter from Park Chambers, Tim Doud, and Lawrence Steger of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. They write to thank him for allowing them to house his documentation. It appears that Mr. Houston's contribution was helpful to an exhibition titled Private/Public. The School of the Art Institute played a seemingly large role in the exhibit as well.
Date: December 22, 1992
Creator: Chambers, Park; Doud, Tim & Steger, Lawrence
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Judith Zaffirini to Sterling Houston - May 24, 1993]

Description: Letter from Judith Zaffirini, state senator from Texas, to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes back as a response to a letter by Houston, noting that she, like Sterling, fully supports funding for the arts. This includes funds for the Texas Commission on the Arts and the SB 778 bill, which she co-sponsored with twenty-seven other members.
Date: May 24, 1993
Creator: Zaffirini, Judith
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Sally de Mattia to Sterling Houston - June 22, 1995]

Description: Letter from Sally de Mattia to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She writes from the Italian-based magazine Omero, which is in various stages of publishing Le Griffon, a play by Houston. She also wonders if perhaps she should take her own play out of Houston's production company, the Jump-Start Performance Company, due to setbacks in funding and delays.
Date: June 22, 1995
Creator: de Mattia, Sally
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Joyce Lambrecht - June 1995]

Description: Letter from Joyce Lambrecht, special projects chairman of the Alamo Theater Arts Council. She writes to invite photograph submissions by local theater groups for the 1995 Globe Awards, an event celebrating achievements by San Antonio theaters. She would also like presenters and asks for volunteers.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Lambrecht, Joyce
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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