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The Bing Crosby collection includes 21 letters and documents from Crosby's professional and personal life, three photographs or photograph reproductions, and one autograph musical quotation. Most letters and documents are in regards to Crosby's film projects during the 1940s and 1950s, especially White Christmas (1954).

The Bing Crosby collection includes 21 letters and documents from Crosby's professional and personal life, three photographs or photograph reproductions, and one autograph musical quotation. Most letters and documents are in regards to Crosby's film projects during the 1940s and 1950s. Multiple documents pertain to the film White Christmas, including a letter confirming the early script approval by the Paramount Picture Company, and a planning document for the presentation of names in the credits.

See the box and folder listing below for details about each item in the collection.

The Drama Season of the University of Michigan is a theater group on campus. Prior to 1952 known as the Ann Arbor Drama Season; the organization did not function from 1943 to 1948. The records collect scrapbooks, 1938-1942 and 1949-1961, containing clippings, programs, and production photographs; also correspondence files, legal and financial papers relating to operation of this Ann Arbor, Michigan, professional theater program, during the directorships of Robert Henderson, John O'Shaughnessy, and Valentine Windt.

The Drama Season records span the years 1929-1966. The material consists of scrapbooks from 1938 to 1942 and 1949 to 1961 (2 linear ft.) which contain mainly clippings from local and national newspapers, along with some programs and photographs.

Also included are alphabetically arranged administrative files relating to the operation of the theater and the performances. Materials include correspondence, legal and financial files and press releases. The bulk of this material is from the 1950s and 1960s.

The photographs series includes a photo album and production photographs, mostly from the 1950s and autographed photos of Lillian Gish and Billie Burke.

The Eva Jessye collection contains the personal papers and collected material of Eva Jessye, a prominent choral director, composer, arranger, writer, poet, actress and African American Music historian. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1895, Jessye gained prominence as the conductor for Original Dixie Jubilee Singers, and as choral director for Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Jessye was the choral director for the original production (and many subsequent productions) of Porgy and Bess. The collection includes both materials from Jessye's personal and professional life as well as collected material which documents prominent African Americans.

The Eva Jessye Collection contains both personal papers of Jessye, as well as material collected by Jessye. The Eva Jessye collection is made up of twelve series: Biographical; Correspondence; Eva Jessye Choir; Writings (Performances, Poetry and Speeches); Music; Productions; Eva Jessye Programs; Collected Programs; Eva Jessye Clippings; Black History Clippings; Photographs; and Awards and Certificates.

The register of the Merchants Exchange Hotel of Portland, Maine, contains daily entries from fall 1891 through winter 1892, documenting the names of each visitor to the hotel, their city of origin, and room number. The register is a partially printed volume, created by Maynard, Gough & Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts, manufacturers of "Advertising Hotel Registers" and suppliers of other hotel printing. One significant aspect of the register is the regular influx of actors, minstrel groups, comedians, variety show persons, burlesque performers, theater production casts, and other artists. Perhaps with a mind to free advertising, these artists tended to identify their company, management, production, or show dates alongside their names.

The register of the Merchants Exchange Hotel of Portland, Maine, contains daily entries from fall 1891 through winter 1892, documenting the names of each visitor to the hotel, their city of origin, and room number. The register is a partially printed volume, created by Maynard, Gough & Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts, manufacturers of "Advertising Hotel Registers" and suppliers of other hotel printing. It begins with a printed guide to city populations and hotel rates for establishments across the United States, along with two pages of printed advertisements for hotels in New York and New England. Each page of the register has a printed header and every other leaf contains the same advertisements throughout the volume. The first and last pages have pasted-in newspaper clippings with transportation information and other matter.

One significant aspect of the register is the regular influx of actors, minstrel groups, comedians, variety show persons, burlesque performers, theater production casts, and other artists. Perhaps with a mind to free advertising, these artists tended to identify their company, management, production, or show dates alongside their names.

The following is a partial list of the performance groups that checked into the hotel:

• Peck and Fursman's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company (August 20-28, 1891).
• Emily Zola's Parisian Beauties (September 7, 1891).
• Leonard and Flynn, comedy duo, John Leonard and John Flynn, "Two Irish Cuckoos" (October 22, 1891).
• Charles Mumford, manager of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (November 1, 1891).
• Agent and company performing the "Crystal Slipper"--individual names not listed (November 8 and 12, 1891).
• The Novelty Trio of Rolland Carter, William Hafford, and Jack Bryant (November 15, 1891).
• A group including Frank Sheridan and Charles A. Morton (November 17, 1891).
• The Blue and Gray Company, en route (November 20, 1891).
• Members of a production of "Ship Ahoy!" (November 24, 1891).
• J. C. Knapp and Frank Smith of Hi Henry's Minstrels (December 26, 1891).
• The Lucius Consolidated Minstrels, including "Gen. Sgt." George W. Huntley (January 11 and 16, 1892).
• Whallen & Martell's vaudeville company (February 11, 1892).
• Part of the Ullie Akerstrom Company (February 15, 1892).
• The Royal Pass Company (February 19, 1892).
• Fay Foster Burlesque Company (February 22, 1892).
• Part of Cleveland's Minstrels (April 17, 1892).
• A production of "One of the Finest" with Henrietta Berleur (April 27, 1892).
• Primrose and West's Minstrels (May 6, 1892).
• Part of a production of "Uncle Hiram" (May 11, 1892).

Philip Kerr, a professional actor, taught theatre at the University of Michigan from 1984 to 2012. In addition to teaching courses in the Department of Theatre and Drama, he directed many productions put on by the department. This collection includes material documenting these productions and his role as a faculty member.

The Philip Kerr Papers document Kerr's time at the University of Michigan as a professor in the Department of Theatre and Drama. They primarily contain records and publications from productions in which Kerr was director or an actor, as well as administrative records reflecting Kerr's role and experiences as a faculty member within the Department of Theatre and Drama, especially his efforts to improve the quality of the department, such as the establishment of the Bachelor in Fine Arts degree program. The collection is arranged into five series: Biographical, Correspondence, Photographs, Productions, and Topical.

Student at the University of Michigan, later professional stage actor. Playbills from Detroit and University of Michigan productions, theatrical publications, miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, and writings; and photographs.

The Forsyth collection includes some correspondence, journals (1914-1917), playbills from productions in the Detroit and Ann Arbor area, clippings about his theatrical career, and miscellaneous photographs.