WAUUWPuppeteersPH2016_058.xmlGuide to the University of Washington Puppeteers Photograph Album circa 1938-1942University of Washington Puppeteers Photograph AlbumSpecial Collections, University of Washington Libraries© 2016 (Last modified: 11/27/2017)
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University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH2016-058University of Washington. School of Drama. PuppeteersUniversity of Washington Puppeteers photograph albumcirca 1938-19421 album of photographs (1 box)Collection materials are in English.Photographs of the University of Washington Puppeteers

From 1934-1941 WPA government programs sponsored thousands of puppet shows around the country. In 1934 Glenn Hughes began a puppetry department at the University of Washington in Seattle. By the 1940s, Glenn Hughes’s program at the University of Washington developed one of the finest educational programs in the nation for children’s theater. In 1936 the U of W Puppeteers became the first touring unit of the theater department, playing to more than 27,000 youngsters annually until 1959.

Album of photographs of the UW Puppeteers plays and puppeteers.

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