Available Works or Citations from Karamu House
This is a collection of Karamu House photographs from the Cleveland Press Collection and others, showcasing the settlement’s activities, including the theatrical productions, as well as a collection of WPA art produced at Karamu and collected by Russell and Rowena Jelliffe.
The Karamu House Archives consists of records that document the history and administration of the institution. The collection includes office files, photographs, printed material, audio and video recordings, programming brochures, scripts and performance files.
Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men’s Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city’s…
Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men’s Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city’s growing African-American…
Signed Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, Director; returning his script (as requested); regretting they “See no way to produce it, because of the very complicated staging which it demands”; pledging to keep him informed if those circumstances change; and thanking him for the privilege of being able to read it, nonetheless. Verso bears the theater’s national sponsors.
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