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Baker, Virgil L. (Virgil Lyle), 1896-1974

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Virgil L. Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 702
Scope and Content Note

The Virgil L. Baker Papers include correspondence concerning the New Play Series at the University Theatre, the building of the Fine Arts Complex, and the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art. Along with first and second drafts of several books as well as articles, short stories, and plays, the collection contains Virgil L. Baker's research notes, material for future poems, Unitarian church materials, University of Arkansas materials, clippings, and papers of Lillian Baker.

Dates: 1872-1975

Virgil Lyle Baker Theater Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS B177 314
Scope and Content Note This collection contains correspondence, notes, lists, speeches, drawings, photographs, clippings, playbills and other published material pertaining to the careers and the professional interests and activities of Virgil L. Baker, professor and head of the University of Arkansas Department of Speech and Dramatic Art (1929-1952), and of his wife, Lillian Bay Barker (1898-1978), instructor in the department 1936-37 and 1943-44, especially in regards to the University of Arkansas theater, the...
Dates: 1926-1940, 1965

Baker/Eubanks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 19
Scope and Content Note Typescript manuscript of Speech in Personal and Public Affairs. The typed manuscript of Speech in Personal and Public Affairs is a draft of the published text, Speech in Personal Affairs (New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965), a text by Virgil Lyle Baker and Ralph T. Eubanks, used for teaching speech at the university level. The copy in the present collection, containing corrections and emendations, demonstrates the evolutionary process of completing the manuscript. The incomplete draft...
Dates: 1965