Inventory of the Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell Theater Collection, 1916- 1988
Collection Number 3839
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Rawls, Eugenia.
- Title
- Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell Theater Collection, 1916- 1988.
- Call Number
- 3839
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 34,500 items (64.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Eugenia Rawls and Donald Seawell Theater Collection, #3839, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Actors--United States--History--20th century.
- American drama--20th century.
- Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968.
- Drama--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Intelligence officers--United States--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
- Radio scripts.
- Rawls, Eugenia.
- Seawell, Donald Ray, 1912-
- Television actors and actresses--United States--History--20th century.
- Television scripts.
- Theatrical producers and directors--United States--History--20th century.
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
- Women in the performing arts--United States--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
Biographical Note
Actress; wife of lawyer, theatrical producer, and newspaper publisher Donald Seawell (1912- ).
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Papers and other materials of Rawls (1913- ), Broadway and television actress; and her husband Seawell, lawyer, army officer, and theatrical producer of Denver, Colo., and New York, N.Y. Series I contains the personal and professional correspondence of Rawls with her children, relatives, colleagues, and friends, 1916-1974. Series II, comprising Seawell's office files, 1947-1972, relates to his business and theatrical affairs and to the production of several plays in the 1960s. In addition, there is extensive correspondence between husband and wife during World War II, while Seawell was an army counterintelligence officer stationed in England and France. Series III consists of writings by Rawls and others, chiefly typescripts of radio plays, plus drafts of her one- woman shows on Fanny Kemble and Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are photographs; posters; video tapes; scrapbooks of clippings; notebooks of Rawls's activities as a drama student at University of North Carolina, 1932-1933; and a large number of radio, television, and theatrical scripts for productions in which she appeared.