Dan Bessie collection, 1900s-1990s (scattered dates)
0.8 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
Collected materials relating to Harry Burnett, who with Forman G. Brown and Roddy Brandon were the three openly gay partners forming the Yale Puppeteers and who operated the Turnabout Theater in Hollywood. Also, materials related to Leo Burnett, an advertising executive, and other Burnett family members. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, photographs, drawings, clippings, and ephemera.
Published material and correspondence relating to Leo Burnett and his agency; postcards and letters of Harry Burnett; a small collection of material related to Noble Burnett; diary with scattered entries of Forman G. Brown, 1985-1989, and other Forman G. Brown writings; miscellanea regarding the Yale Puppeteers and the Turnabout Theater. Photographs relating to the Yale Puppeteers and the Turnabout Theater; include photo of Albert Einstein holding a puppet with his likeness; also portrait of Forman G. Brown and snapshots of childhood activities, ca. 1907, of Harry and Leo Burnett family of Ann Arbor and Saint Johns, Mich.