Overview From the Collection: Peter Wexler (1936 - 2022) worked for seven decades in performance art, as a designer of scenery, costumes, lighting, concerts, performance space, and outdoor concert facilities, as well as a producer and as a studio artist. He studied at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1958, and attended the Yale School of Drama. The Peter Wexler papers contain materials from his professional career from 1948 to 1969. This collection includes programs, reviews, correspondence,...

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1, 1A: plans/construction drawings 2-3A: prints 4-8A: positive photo stats of the slides 9-14: negative photo stats of the slides

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1: ground plan tracing (sheet no. 1 December 25th) 2: ground plan with lighting tracing (sheet no. 1 December 19th) 3: lighting tracing (sheet no. 2) 4: front elevation tracing (sheet no. 4) 5-7: construction details tracings 8-19: random early tracings of construction details 20, 21: sketches (tracings) 22-27: prints of construction details

Scope and Contents Rough Theatre Measurements: 1: Curran Theatre (San Francisco, CA) 2: Blackstone Theatre (Cumberland, RI) 3: Schubert Theatre (Cincinnati, OH) 4: Municipal Auditorium (Austin, TX) 5: Hanna Theatre (Cleveland, OH) 6: Playhouse Theatre (Wilmington, DE) 7: State Fair Hall (Dallas, TX)...

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1-8: plan and elevation prints

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1, 2: finished plan, lighting, and section tracings 3-15: finished elevation tracings 16-28: rough plan sketches and elevation tracings

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1-3: finished tracings 4-7: finished prints 8-23: rough tracings 24: folder of small rough tracings 25-27: rough prints 28: poster from Ballet Troupe/Robert Troupe

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1-3: building specification photo stats of Carnegie Hall dimensions 4, 5: building specifications 6, 7: finished plan and elevation/construction drawing tracings 8, 9: construction drawing prints 10: envelope of seventeen photographs

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1, 2: finished tracings 3-4: finished prints 5-7: notes

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1-1D: black Xerox of full set sketch 2: white Xerox of full set sketch 3: black Xerox of second sketch 4-10: various rough sketches 11-22: bound set I: finished prints 23-28: bound set II: finished prints 29-35: finished prints 36-51: finished tracings 52: rough print