David Fishman
photographs of theater performances, 1970-1979
Finding Aid for the Collection at the
Copyright © 2006,
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Title: David Fishman photographs of theater performances, 1970-1979.
Dates: 1970-1979.
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PPL
291 photographic prints : b&w; 20 x 16 in. and smaller.
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PCP-0231
38 photographic prints : color; 5 x 7 in. and smaller.
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PCT 0211
185 transparencies : color, slide ; 35 mm.
Accession#: 2005.009.1
Summary: Photographs by David Fishman of theatrical performances and portraits of actors in costume at the Drury Lane Theater, the Yiddish Theater Association, the Lyric Opera, and the Goodman Theatre. Many photographs are unidentified, but the collection does include a series of photographs related to the following performances: Academy, the Witch (by the Yiddish Theater Association); Sunday in New York (Drury Lane); in 1976 at Drury Lane: Under Papa’s Picture; I Do I Do; The Philanthropist; Last of the Red Hot Lover’s; Doll’s House; To Be Young; Bus Stop; The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild.
Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include Photographs by David Fishman (1996.0347) and the David Fishman photograph collection (1979.0047).
Brief biography: David H. Fishman (1914-1977) was born in Chicago and attended Tuley High School and the Art Institute of Chicago (graduated 1938). In addition to being a stage designer, production designer, and technical director of a semi-professional theater company in Chicago, Fishman became the theatrical photographer for noted Chicago theater companies including the Lyric Opera, the Goodman Theatre, the Drury Lane Theater (in Lincolnshire, IL), the Happy Medium, and the Academy Playhouse.
Gift of Jerome Berger
(2005.0009.1)
Processed in 2006 by Patricia Peña.
The
following headings were placed in the online catalog for this collection:
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.)
Drury Lane Theater (Lincolnshire, Ill.)
Yiddish Theater Association (Chicago, Ill.)
Opera--Performances--Illinois--Chicago--1970-1979.
Theatrical productions--Illinois--Chicago--1970-1979.
Theater, Yiddish--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Silver gelatin prints.
Photographic prints--Color.
Slides--Color.
Container list of
box/folder titles and numbers:
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PPL
Box 1 of 4 Black and white photographic prints: 8x10 in
Folder
1 Academy
2 Academy
3 Bus Stop – Drury Lane North 8/76
4 Doll’s House
5 I do I do – Drury Lane North
6 Last of the Red Hot Lovers
7 Miscellaneous
8 The Philanthropist
9 The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild – Drury Lane North 10/76
10 Sunday in New York
11 To Be Young
12 Under Papa’s Picture – Drury Lane 4/76
13 The Witch – Yiddish Theatre Association
14 The Witch – Yiddish Theatre Association
15 The Witch – Yiddish Theatre Association
Box 2 of 4 Black and white photographic prints: 11x14
Folders
1-6 Unidentified images
Box 3 of 4 Black and white photographic prints: 11x14
Folders
7-11 Unidentified images
Box 4 of 4 Black and white photographic prints: 16x20
Folders
1-8 Unidentified images
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PCP-0231
Box 1 of 1 Color photographic prints: 5x7 and smaller
Folders
1-16 Unidentified images
Call#: 2005.0009.1 PCT 0211
Box 1 of 1 Color transparencies: 35mm.
Slide Sheets
1 Goodman
2 Richard Gere at Goodman
3 Lyric Opera
4 Lyric Opera
5 Oh Wilderness
6 Oh Wilderness
7 Not Labeled
8 Not Labeled
9 Not Labeled
10 Not Labeled
11 Not Labeled
12 Not Labeled