<div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Deborah</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Library of Congress</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:loc@service.govdelivery.com">loc@service.govdelivery.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 5:51 AM<br>Subject: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Great Depression playbills from the Federal Theatre Project<br>To: <<a href="mailto:deborah.wong@ucr.edu">deborah.wong@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<p><font size="4"><span><strong>Great Depression-era theater playbills from around the U.S.</strong></span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>Today we're launching "<a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjAxMTEuNTE1OTk4ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Nyb3dkLmxvYy5nb3YvY2FtcGFpZ25zL2ZlZGVyYWwtdGhlYXRyZS1wcm9qZWN0Lz9sb2Nscj1lYWN3ZCJ9.cJQNUTN1jwZWRVSpWEnES3mMKUEqYjuRAsiYg5WgscE/s/941063448/br/124521100219-l" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Theater for the People: Federal Theatre Project playbills</a>," 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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>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. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>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.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>Capturing the playbills' information provides a window into the stories we told during the Great Depression, what we valued, and who we were.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><strong><span>New Volunteer Vignette blogpost</span></strong></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>Our latest <a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDMsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjAxMTEuNTE1OTk4ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Jsb2dzLmxvYy5nb3YvdGhlc2lnbmFsLzIwMjEvMTIvdm9sdW50ZWVyLXZpZ25ldHRlLW1heWEvIn0.Yx4DEk-pJzMbKwiJzBGQtSBzJR3Ll0KvPVkCmSy8NjU/s/941063448/br/124521100219-l" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Volunteer Vignette</a> includes this advice from frequent suffrage campaigns volunteer Maya:</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><em>"Keep the <a href="https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDQsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjAxMTEuNTE1OTk4ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2Nyb3dkLmxvYy5nb3YvaGVscC1jZW50ZXIvd2VsY29tZS1ndWlkZS8_bG9jbHI9YmxvZ3NpZyJ9._VLG1qJvvzx6A0Ao6AD3JPbFhhkpczVLBvBuasbey4M/s/941063448/br/124521100219-l" rel="noopener" target="_blank">how-to page</a> close 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."</em></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span>Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom, Maya!</span></font></p>
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