Robert E. Gard Papers


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Last updated:
August 8, 2002

Originally published:
October 2002

Robert E. Gard Papers
Inventory List

Gard Works

Box

Folder/
Item

 

 

 

Plays

27

1

Adventures on a Walk to Kansas

 

2

The Border Incident

 

3

The Canada I Know

 

4

Cordelia (2 folders)

 

5

Box of Dittos

 

6

Rehearsal Book

 

7

The Deacon - Synopsis and Correspondence

 

8

Devil Red

 

9

Proofs

 

10

Down River by David Peterson; adapted from Wisconsin is my Doorstep by Robert E. Gard

 

11

Down in the Valleys

 

12

Correspondence

 

13

Drink All of This

 

14

The Error of Sexton Jones (5 folders)

 

15

Proofs

 

16

The Freedom by Robert E. Gard and Dore Reich

 

17

Giddy-Ap, Jake!

 

18

I'm A Drop of Water

 

19

An Innocence of Prairie - Correspondence

 

20

It Happened in Topeka

28

1

Land of Johnny Chinook (2 folders)

 

2

Correspondence

 

3

Lilly Crosses the Border

 

4

The Magic Tamburitza

 

5

My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin - Correspondence

 

6

New and Strange Lands

 

7

Raisin' the Devil

 

8

So Sinks the Day Star

 

9

Tall Grasses of Search - Correspondence

 

10

Time Weaves a Tapestry

 

11

The Visit to Corinth

 

12

The Wheel

 

13

The Whitewater Kiss by Robert E. Gard and Dore Reich

 

14

Wisconsin Showtime by Robert E. Gard and Ed L. Kamarck (2 folders)

 

15

A Woman of No Importance by Allen Crafton and Robert E. Gard

 

 

Manuscripts, Articles and Talks

 

16

Manuscript on American Theatre (2 folders)

 

17

Australian Story Material

 

18

"A Celebration of Innocence" - Article and Correspondence

 

19

"A Classroom Story"

 

20

Manuscript about Clyde

 

21

Community Theatre Report - Draft

 

22

Educational Theatre (2 folders)

 

23

Expressionistic Theatre Article - Draft

 

24

"Fallen from Grace" - Lecture, 1978

 

25

Manuscript about Fever River Valley

 

26

Finnish Book Project (With Ritva Heikkila and Arvi Kivimaa)

 

27

Manuscript on Finnish Folklore

 

28

Finnish Manuscripts

 

29

Finnish Theatre

 

30

Manuscript about Finnish Theatre

 

31

"My Friends Those Delightful Finns"

 

32

Grassroots Theatre (3 folders)

 

33

"In My Opinion" - Milwaukee Journal Editorial, 1975

 

34

Manuscript about J.B.

 

35

Manuscript about Mr. Jones (by Robert E. Gard?)

29

1

Manuscript about Kickapoo

 

2

Manuscript about Knapp's Creek

 

3

"Leadership and Community Theatre"

 

4

Manuscript on MANDALA

 

5

"Need for the Arts"

 

6

"Notes on the Death of Elms"

 

7

"Opportunities for Aspiring Playwrights"

 

8

Lectures on Plays and Playwrights

 

9

Religious Drama (2 folders)

 

10

Romance of Wisconsin Place Names - Notes (4 folders)

 

11

"Rural Arts in Wisconsin"

 

12

"Small Town Values and the Arts"

 

13

"Storeis from Wisconsin Places"

 

14

Script about Student Riots

 

15

"The Theatre"

 

16

Manuscript on Theatre in America

 

17

Theatre in America (2 folders)
[see also interview with Gard and Marston Balch on Theatre in America in Box 2 and National Theatre Conference / Theatre in America folders in Box 39]

 

18

"The Theatre Arts in Adult Program Planning," 1964

 

19

Unidentified Manuscript about Wisconsin (3 folders)

 

20

WHA Talks

 

21

"Wisconsin House" - Lecture, 1977

 

22

"The Wisconsin Idea and the Cultural Arts"

 

23

Wisconsin Lore (2 folders)

 

24

"Writing the Wisconsin Play and Catalogue of Unwritten Plays" by Jonathan W. Curvin and Robert E. Gard

 

 

Short Writings and Notes

 

25

Articles and Short Essays

 

26

Miscellaneous Notes (2 folders)

 

27

Notes on Various Chapters and Plays

 

28

Talks and Notes

 

29

Two Diaries, 1953

 

30

Two Manuscripts by Grace Kimball (Maryo Gard): The Puzzle of Roanoke and Untitled

30

1

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (6 folders)

 

 

This Heritage, This Land, This People

 

2

Proposal, 1965

 

3

Music and Notes

 

4

Cardiff Giant

 

5

Chicago

 

6

J. Frank Dobie and Texas

 

7

Jack London and Hoboes That Pass in the Night

 

8

The Lumbermen

 

9

Mark Twain and the Mississippi

 

10

Mike Fink and the Ohio River

 

11

Montana County

 

12

New England

 

13

The Oregon Trail

 

14

The Pennsylvania Dutch

 

15

The People of the Ozarks

 

16

Wild Goose Marsh (4 folders)

 

17

Notes

 

18

Horicon Materials (2 folders)

 

 

University Madison U.S.A. Materials

31

1

Athletic Lore and Legend

 

2

Campus Folklore (3 folders)

 

3

Manuscript - Miscellaneous (3 folders)

 

4

Lake Mendota

 

5

University Book - Background Information, Notes, and Miscellaneous (5 folders)

 

6

University Madison U.S.A. (5 folders)

 

 

Gard Works, Oversized

32

1

Campus History

 

2

Cordelia

 

3

"The Great Transformation" (Milwaukee Journal, 1976)

 

4

Horicon Marsh - Proofs

 

5

"My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin" by Robert and Maryo Gard (Milwaukee Journal, 1978)

 

6

Notebook on Wild Goose Marsh

 

7

Romance of Wisconsin Place Names - Information

 

8

Run to Kansas - Proofs

 

9

Twelve Foot Davis

 

10

University Madison U.S.A. (3 folders)

 

11

Wild Goose Marsh

 

12

Correspondence

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