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Five-page manuscript essay by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Through Literature to Life," written on November 22, 1935.

First four pages of Rachel Crothers' typed manuscript copy of her play A Man's World, first published in 1910.

Signed typed manuscript copy of a speech given by Rachel Crothers at the White House upon receipt of a Chi Omega National Achievement Award in April 1939. The ceremony was attended by Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Selected pages from a lecture by Rachel Crothers titled "Construction of a Play" published in the 1928 anthology The Art of Playwriting: Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation.

Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article titled "Rachel Crothers the Woman Playwright Who Has Grown Famous In Writing 'The Three of Us,' 'The Coming of Mrs. Patrick' and 'Myself Bettina.'"

Scrapbook page containing newspaper clipping of article about playwright Rachel Crothers titled "Woman Playwright Things Her Sex Shows More Sympathy for the Sister Who Has Strayed From Path of Conventional Morality..."

Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper that shows performers from Barnum's Grand Ethnological Congress.

Illustration of the performer Laloo, from the book "Anomalies and curiosities of medicine."