The Channing Pollock Theatre Collection--a non-circulating special collection devoted to the performing arts, was established in 1950 by Helen Channing Pollock, daughter of the late American playwright and critic, Channing Pollock. The collection was formally presented to the University in May 1952 during the Festival of Fine Arts

Address
Founders Library, Room 102
500 Howard Place, NW
Washington, DC 20059

Telephone
(202} 806-7259

Staff
Steven Yoon, Ph.D., Bibliographer
(202) 806-7259
E-mail: syoon@howard.edu

Hours
Open by appointment only; call 806-7252 to schedule.

Resources
The Channing Pollock Collection contains the playwright's published works, manuscripts, and personal correspondence with celebrities of his day; as well as clippings, photographs, programs, broadsides, and sheet music representing different phases of the theatrical and entertainment world. The collection's strengths are Shakespearean drama and criticism as well as the English and American theater of the 19th century. It also has extensive clippings files which give a historical sketch of black performers on the American stage, in movies and on television.