Descriptive Summary
Biographical/Historical Note
Administrative Information
Related Material
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Claude Fredericks papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1850-1988 (bulk 1941-1988)
Number: 900230B
Creator/Collector:
Fredericks, Claude
Physical Description:
44.0 linear feet
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Personal papers of the American dramatist, poet, and teacher. Includes his literary writings (1933-1940), notebooks (1945-1988),
lecture notes for literature classes taught at Bennington College (1961-1988), letters received (1944-1988), and printed ephemera
documenting plays, concerts and exhibits attended (1950-1988), and travel (1944-1988). Photographs portray family (circa 1850-1964)
and friends, writers, artists, dancers, and musicians.
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Language: Collection material is in
English
Biographical/Historical Note
Claude Fredericks was a dramatist and poet who taught at Bennington College from 1961-1992. He founded The Banyan Press and
published the work of well-known poets and fiction writers. Fredericks died on January 11, 2013.
Administrative Information
Access
RESTRICTED ACCESS: Until January 11, 2028, this collection is available to researchers only with the written permission of
the Yoshitsune Foundation. Student evaluations in Boxes 26-32 are SEALED until 2063.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Claude Fredericks papers, circa 1850-1988, bulk 1941-1988, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 900230B.
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1990.
Processing History
Processed by Neil Hathaway.
Related Material
Scope and Content of Collection
Claude Fredericks's personal papers contain his writings, lectures, photographs, ephemera, and incoming correspondence including
letters received from literary figures, artists, dancers, and musicians.
Arrangement note
Arranged in five series:
Series I. Writings, 1933-1988;
Series II. Teaching, 1961-1988;
Series III. Ephemera, 1950-1988;
Series IV. Photographs, film, and sound recordings, circa 1850-1983;
Series V. Letters to Claude Fredericks, 1944-1988.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Fredericks, Claude
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Bennington College
Subjects - Topics
American drama
American literature
American poetry
Photography, Artistic
Subjects - Places
Europe--Description and travel
Japan--Description and travel
Rome (Italy)--Description and travel
Genres and Forms of Material
Audiocassettes
Juvenilia
Lecture notes
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Contributors
Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990
Alloway, Sylvia
Beck, Julian, 1925-1985
Bernhard, Ruth
Berryman, John, 1914-1972
Giroux, Robert
Hofer, Evelyn
Hunter, Sam, 1923-
Kimball, Roger, 1953-
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
Malamud, Bernard
Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
Myers, John
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
Orlovitz, Gil, 1918-1973
Ossorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990
Sarton, May, 1912-1995
Saul, Milton
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Toklas, Alice B.
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
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