TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Sophie Tucker Papers. 1911-1966.

Manuscript Collection No. 485



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Tucker, Sophie, 1884-1966.
Title: Sophie Tucker Papers.
Dates: 1911-1966.
Quantity: 2.4 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, plaques, photographs, and other materials relating to Tucker's career and the American Federation of Actors.
Collection Number: MS-485
Language: Collection material in English.

Biographical Sketch

Entertainer, of New York, N.Y. and Hollywood, Calif.


Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, speeches, plaques, photographs, and other materials relating to Tucker's career and the American Federation of Actors.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Sophie Tucker Papers are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Moses C. Abuza and Charles Z. Abuza, by the act of donating the Sophie Tucker Papers to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by Sophie Tucker and her heirs. Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Sophie Tucker Papers and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-485. Sophie Tucker Papers. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Sophie Tucker Papers were received from Moses C. Abuza and Charles Z. Abuza, New York, New York, in 1966.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Actors -- United States -- Societies, etc
American Federation of Actors
Jewish entertainers -- United States
Jewish women
Photographs
Tucker, Sophie -- 1884-1966 -- Manuscripts
Women entertainers -- United States