Collection Overview

Title:

Guide to the Papers of MacKaye Family, 1751 - 1990

Call Number:

Manuscript ML-5

Collection Dates:

1751 - 1990

Size of Collection:

361 boxes (540 linear feet)

Abstract:

The MacKaye Family Papers contain correspondence, manuscript drafts, photographs, financial records, sketchbooks, notebooks, diaries, programs, broadsides, posters, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral items. They chronicle four generations of the family. The bulk of the collections focus is on dramatist Steele MacKaye, his son and fellow dramatist and poet, Percy MacKaye, as well as the noted conservationist Benton MacKaye.

Access to Collection:

Unrestricted.