Lunch with the Libraries: Recollections of the Children's Experimental Theatre

Presented by Hopkins at Home, Sheridan Libraries and Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries

In Summer 2022, the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries and Museums received an offer of a scrapbook, overflowing with black and white photos, play programs, sketches, news clippings, and more from 1940s and 1950s, documenting the Children’s Experimental Theatre, in Baltimore, then based in Gilman Hall.. The archives team had never heard of the program and there was scant documentation of it in the collection. Join Katie Carey, Hodson Curator of the University Archives, for a virtual discussion of the history of this unique program and the serendipitous ways in which the libraries receive donations to the University Archives.