Research Catalog

Title

Leigh Rollin Whipper papers, 1861-1963.

Author

Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Grainger, Porter

Description

• .4 lin. ft.
• 1 microfilm reel.

Summary

Correspondence, plays, poems, sketches, and song lyrics by Whipper and others, including a musical comedy by Whipper and Porter Grainger entitled "We's Risin': A Story of the Simple Life in the Souls of Black Folk." Majority of the correspondence is congratulatory. Also, photographs and scrapbook of highlights in Whipper's career and programs, autograph books, and contracts pertaining to his career.

Subject

• Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975
• Negro Actors Guild of America
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Revues > United States > History and criticism
• African American actors > Societies, etc
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• African American actors
• African American entertainers

Genre/Form

• Autographs.
• Scrapbooks.
• Poems.
• Photographic prints.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Biography (note)

• Character actor in the movies and theater, a founder of the Negro Actors Guild of America.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc MG 47

OCLC

NYPW89-A228

Author

Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975.

Title

Leigh Rollin Whipper papers, 1861-1963.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 1980. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-17949)

Biography

Character actor in the movies and theater, a founder of the Negro Actors Guild of America.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975.

Grainger, Porter.

LCCN

ms 82001364

Research Call Number

Sc MG 47

Sc Micro R-3807