Lucy Kroll papers, 1908-1998 (bulk 1950-1990).

Open to research.

Client files containing correspondence, contracts, financial records, notes, scripts, printed material, posters, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the work of the Lucy Kroll Agency which managed the careers of clients in the literary and entertainment fields. Documents the business association, friendship, and mentoring relationship between Kroll and her clients. Also includes Kroll family papers and an office file consisting of account books, appointment books, client fact sheets and lists, deal memoranda, and other papers. Clients include E.R. Braithwaite, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Vincent J. Donehue, Dorothy Fields (estate of), Horton Foote, Lillian Gish, Joanna M. Glass, Martha Graham, Uta Hagen, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Daniel Petrie, Dorothea G. Petrie, Carl Sandburg, Kim Stanley, Howard Teichmann, and Fritz Weaver.

Literary and talent agent.

Some posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Sound and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006016