[Ethnomusicology] Fwd: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Great Depression playbills from the Federal Theatre Project

[Deborah Wong]

Just fyi. This is a way to get some experience working with archival
materials. It’s volunteer - do as much or as little as you want.

Deborah

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*[image: Collage of colorful theater playbills from the Federal Theatre
Program Collection]*

*Great Depression-era theater playbills from around the U.S.*

Today we're launching "Theater for the People: Federal Theatre Project
playbills
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7,752 pages from the Library of Congress Music Division. This is our first
collaboration with the Music Division, and you can look forward to more
soon! Next month we'll launch our first campaign to transcribe the text of
sheet music.

The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) began in 1935 within the newly formed
Works Progress Administration (WPA), founded to provide jobs and boost the
economy and morale during the Great Depression. Within a year, FTP had
employed 11,000 performers, directors, playwrights, designers and stage
technicians. By the time it was canceled in 1939, FTP productions had been
seen by 16 million people in 30 states. For many, it was their first
opportunity to see live theatrical performance.

The Federal Theatre Project collection at the Library of Congress holds
thousands of playbills, fliers, and broadsides covering a wide range of
productions from vaudeville sketches to full-length dramas, circus,
puppetry, dance works, and musicals. The collection documents emerging
forms--like the living newspaper which performed stories taken directly
from current headlines. It also includes ephemera from different units of
FTP that featured all-African American casts, performances in German,
Italian, Spanish, and Yiddish, or plays geared toward children.

Capturing the playbills' information provides a window into the stories we
told during the Great Depression, what we valued, and who we were.

Explore the playbills
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this advice from frequent suffrage campaigns volunteer Maya:

*"Keep the how-to page
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at hand, and know that every contribution helps even if it’s just marking
that a document isn’t complete or adding a few words to the transcription
of a hand-written letter. Take breaks, and if the writing is particularly
difficult to decipher try asking friends, it’s kind of fun to figure out
the puzzle sometimes of what the author actually wrote decades or hundreds
of years ago."*

Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom, Maya!



Warmly,

Lauren & the *By the People* team
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