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Box 1

 Container

Contains 39 Results:

Disability insurance benefits claim, 1974 - 1977

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 42
Scope and Contents

Contains health information from the period (1972-1974).

Dates: 1974 - 1977

Biographical notes, and ephemera, 1980 - 1984

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes Bressan's biography and filmography note by Steven Riskin. Bressan's astrological chart; a hotel card from London, a gym card from Honolulu, Hawai (1980).

Dates: 1980 - 1984

Correspondence, post cards and photographs, 1970 - 1982

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes postcards, handwritten notes, accompanying personal photographs, a single letter from Robert Woods, a mirrored letter from Bressan's friend Ellen (1970), and more.

Dates: 1970 - 1982

Harvey Milk, 1977 - 1979

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

A letter from Harvey Milk (9/29/1977), a folded protest flyer titled "Who killed Harvey Milk, a comic with the title "The Wonderful World of Dan White," and "a booklet titled "I promise you, a collection of poems for Harvey Milk."

Dates: 1977 - 1979

Posthumous tributes, 1987

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes Arthur J. Bressan's photograph at a young age (early 1960s) and a memorial article by Vito Russo (1946– 1990) and notes on Arthur J. Bressan by his sisten Rose Marie Bressan from Met (1987).

Dates: 1987

The Great Singers, from the dawn of opera to our own time by Henry Pleasants, 1966

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Book with an inscription with Christman wishes from Larraine to Arthur J. Bressan Jr. in 1966. Simon and Schuster New York, 1966.

Dates: 1966

"Leading Boys, directed by Frank Capra" article by Arthur Bressan and drafts, 1984

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Published in Directing Men Section of Connection Magazine. Several article drafts with a different title ("The Boys World of Frank Capra") and corrections by A.J. Bressan.

Dates: 1984

Correspondence related to Frank Capra, 1967 - 1974

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes an interview from William Hornbeck, the editor executive for Universal Pictures. Correspondence from Frank Capra.

Dates: 1967 - 1974

Meet John Doe. Typed script inscribed by Frank Capra to Arthur J. Bressan, undated

 File — Box: 1 , Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes a program from the conference "Meet Frank Capra x 446" at the University of California, Berkeley (June 15 to 17). The film "Meet John Doe", was directed by Frank Capra in 1941.

Dates: undated