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Size | 64.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 34,500 items) |
Abstract | Actress; wife of lawyer, theatrical producer, and newspaper publisher Donald Seawell (1912- ). Papers and other materials of Rawls (1913- ), Broadway and television actress; and her husband Seawell, lawyer, army officer, and theatrical producer of Denver, Colo., and New York, N.Y. Series I contains the personal and professional correspondence of Rawls with her children, relatives, colleagues, and friends, 1916-1974. Series II, comprising Seawell's office files, 1947-1972, relates to his business and theatrical affairs and to the production of several plays in the 1960s. In addition, there is extensive correspondence between husband and wife during World War II, while Seawell was an army counterintelligence officer stationed in England and France. Series III consists of writings by Rawls and others, chiefly typescripts of radio plays, plus drafts of her one- woman shows on Fanny Kemble and Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are photographs; posters; video tapes; scrapbooks of clippings; notebooks of Rawls's activities as a drama student at University of North Carolina, 1932-1933; and a large number of radio, television, and theatrical scripts for productions in which she appeared. |
Creator | Rawls, Eugenia. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2021; Anne Wells, October 2021
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Actress; wife of lawyer, theatrical producer, and newspaper publisher Donald Seawell (1912- ).
Back to TopPapers and other materials of Rawls (1913- ), Broadway and television actress; and her husband Seawell, lawyer, army officer, and theatrical producer of Denver, Colo., and New York, N.Y. Series I contains the personal and professional correspondence of Rawls with her children, relatives, colleagues, and friends, 1916-1974. Series II, comprising Seawell's office files, 1947-1972, relates to his business and theatrical affairs and to the production of several plays in the 1960s. In addition, there is extensive correspondence between husband and wife during World War II, while Seawell was an army counterintelligence officer stationed in England and France. Series III consists of writings by Rawls and others, chiefly typescripts of radio plays, plus drafts of her one- woman shows on Fanny Kemble and Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are photographs; posters; scrapbooks of clippings; notebooks of Rawls's activities as a drama student at University of North Carolina, 1932-1933; a large number of radio, television, and theatrical scripts for productions in which she appeared; and audio, film, and video recordings featuring or compiled by Eugenia Rawls.
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Papers |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3839/1 |
Oversize papers |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3839/1a |
Extra oversize papers |
Oversize Volume SV-3839/2 |
Oversize volume |
Oversize Volume SV-3839/3 |
Oversize volume |
Oversize Volume SV-3839/4 |
Oversize volume |
Image Box IB-3839/1 |
Photographs |
Image Box IB-3839/2 |
Photographs |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3839/1-2
OP-PF-3839/1OP-PF-3839/2 |
Oversize photograph |
Instantaneous Disc FD-3839/1 |
"Greetings from the New York World's Fair: To grandmother from Eugenia"Instantaneous Disc |
Instantaneous Disc FD-3839/2 |
The Royalists, "Holly Cow", "Dotties Ditties", "Lord Melbourne's Motet", "Go Man, Go", "The Amiables", "A Financial Plea"Instantaneous Disc Stephen Rex, Richard Rex, John Rex, James Rex |
Audiodisc FC-3839/1 |
Howard Lindsay, "Pipe Night At The Players To Honor Alfred Lunt And Lynn Fontanne", 196312" LP record |
Audiodisc FC-3839/2 |
The Lindsay Record, "What Can I Do For New York The Small Business People", "What Are WE Going To Do For the City of New York"7" LP record Sponsored by the Committee to elect John Lindsay as Mayor |
Audiotape T-3839/1 |
"Hollow Crown"1/4" Open Reel Audio |
Audiotape T-3839/2 |
Eugenia Rawls reading Lillion Smith's "Memory of a Large Christmas"1/4" Open Reel Audio |
Film F-3839/1 |
"The Great Sebastians"16mm motion picture film |
Film F-3839/2 |
"The Great Sebastians"16mm motion picture film |
Film F-3839/3 |
"Home Is Where Love Is"16mm motion picture film |
Film F-3839/4 |
"Lunt and Fontanne in Athens Greece"16mm motion picture film |
Film F-3839/5 |
"Lynn Fontanne Mini Film Festival"16mm motion picture film |
Film F-3839/6 |
"Road To Reality"16mm motion picture film |
Videotape VT-3839/1 |
U.S. Steel, "The Old Lady Shows Her Metals", original2" Open Reel Video CBS |
Videotape VT-3839/2 |
U.S. Steel, "The Old Lady Shows Her Metals", 5 November 19632" Open Reel Video CBS |
Videotape VT-3839/3 |
"Cavett show 32"2" Open Reel Video |