Additions, 1975-1979, consisting of follow-spot cue sheets for productions of operas and ballets with lighting direction by Hemsley. See box list with accession form. Audio recordings have been assigned call number Audio 1948A/1-10. Qty: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)
Additions, 1953-1984, consisting of Gilbert Hemsley's high school yearbook, clippings, scrapbooks, playscripts, lighting cues, and production notes. See box list with accession form. Qty: 1.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 1 photograph
Shelving Locations
Box 1-2 MAD 3M/23/K4
Box 3 MAD 3M/74/O5
MAD WCFTR General Stills Archive (Photograph)
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
M84-464 MAD 3 /24/M4-6
Notes
Scripts, lighting designs, and miscellaneous architectural plans and graphic mats for productions Hemsley worked on. Dates: 1970's-1980's. [NOTE: Oversize materials have been added to M87-260] Qty: 7.0 c.f. (7 record center cartons)
Additions, 1963-1980, consisting of stage plans, set designs, light plots, line plots, schedules, lighting cue sheets, and photographs and transparencies. This accession includes standard-sized materials from MCHC80-094 and MCHC82-049, and the oversize portions of MCHC77-082, MCHC80-094, MCHC82-049, M84-464, and some items found in stacks. Audio has been assigned call number Audio 1948A. Qty: 13.5 c.f. (1 archives box, 1 flat box, 39 oversize folders, and 2 rolls of very large sheets), and 1 painting, 5 color transparencies, 6 color prints, 4 b/w prints, and 53 negatives (in 1 archives box)
Shelving Locations
Box 1 MAD 3 / 1/B3
Box 2 (flat box) MAD 3 /75/C1
Painting, transparencies, and prints and negatives WCFTR General Stills Archives
Slides of theater, ballet, dance, and opera productions (some lighted by Hemsley?), videotapes of Hemsley productions (and a brief news interview with him). See box listing with accession form. Audio has been assigned call number Audio 1948A. Qty: 5.0 c.f. (5 record center cartons), 16 videorecordings
Shelving Locations
MAD 3M/32/G6-H1 (5 cartons)
MAD 1V/40/D2 (16 videorecordings)
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
M90-340 MAD 3 /56/K5-7
Notes
Additions, 1970-1986, of personal papers of Hemsley. Material consists of professional and personal correspondence, production files, and class materials. There are also slides and photos of theatrical productions and of vacations. See box listing with accession form. Qty: 6.4 c.f. (6 record center cartons and 1 archives box)
Shelving Locations
MAD 3 /56/K5-7
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
M91-042 MAD 3M/72/J2 MAD 3M/23/I1
Notes
Papers, 1973-1984, including scrapbooks (publicity, ads, reviews of University Theater productions), programs from productions world-wide that Hemsley directed/lighted/managed, work schedules, copies of his obituaries and various memorial services, awards, photographs, clippings concerning his work, a copy of his will, a copy of his Master's thesis, and a folder containing three letters from Beverly Sills to Hemsley's mother. This material was apparently collected by Dorothy Hemsley (his mother). See box listing with accession form. Qty: 2.4 c.f. (1 record center carton and 4 packages)
Shelving Locations
Package 1-4 MAD 3M/72/J2
Box 1 MAD 3M/23/I1
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
M94-097 MAD 2M/14/K7
Notes
Photographs (mostly black & white prints, negatives, and 35mm color transparencies) of theater productions, family, and friends; two tape recordings relating to productions; and several ad cards. See box list with accession form. Audio recordings have been assigned call number Audio 1948A/1-10. Qty: 1.0 c.f. (1 record center carton)
Shelving Locations
MAD 2M/14/K7
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
M94-098 MAD 2M/12/H1
Notes
Hemsley's "advanced lighting design notebook" for Drama 134 at Yale University. Qty: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)
Shelving Locations
MAD 2M/12/H1
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
MCHC81-040 MAD 2M/25/A7
Notes
Papers from projects of the 1970's. Qty: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons)
Shelving Locations
MAD 2M/25/A7
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
MCHC82-010 MAD 2M/ 7/J5
Notes
Scripts, scores, lighting designs, and a few photos from theater productions in New York and elsewhere. Dates: 1970s-1981. Qty: 3.0 c.f. (3 record center cartons)
Shelving Locations
MAD 2M/ 7/J5
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
MCHC82-049 MAD 2M/11/E5-6
Notes
Scripts, production material, lighting designs, music, magazines, playbills, and clippings relating to Hemsley's work as a lighting designer for several Wolf Trap productions and for productions of the Boston Opera and the New York City Opera. Dates: 1973-1981. [NOTE: Oversize materials have been added to M87-260] Qty: 4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes)
Shelving Locations
MAD 2M/11/E5-6
Collection Additions (Reading Room)
MCHC83-091 MAD 3 /23/X7
Notes
Stage sets, lighting, etc. Dates: 1981-1982. Qty: 1.0 c.f. (1 record center carton)