Franklin Jasper Walls Collection

Collection

Call Number: DRA 33

Scope and Contents

The collection includes programs, photographs, and stage directions related to Cupid and Psyche, a masque performed in 1916 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. Walls served as the stage manager and committee chairman for the masque, in addition to designing the stage and scenery. The collection also includes architectural drawings by Walls for a theater at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, and correspondence related to Walls’s consultations with the Display Stage Lighting Co., Inc.

Dates

circa 1916-1925

Creator

Walls, Franklin Jasper

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Jovan De Rocco, 1978.

Arrangement

Box listing only.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/arts.dra.0033

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection includes programs, photographs, and stage directions related to Cupid and Psyche, a masque performed in 1916 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of the Fine Arts. The collection also includes architectural drawings by Walls for a theater at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT, and correspondence related to Walls’s consultations with the Display Stage Lighting Co., Inc.

Biographical / Historical

Franklin Jasper Walls (d. 1964) was trained as an architect and graduated with a BFA from the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1917. Walls was also active in the School’s Department of Drama and the Elizabethan Club.