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Vollmer, Lula, 1889-1955

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Lula Vollmer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1967-0488M-b
Scope and Contents

Primarily photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, and ephemera concerning the work of Vollmer, an Atlanta playwright, formerly of North Carolina and later New York, whose plays concerning North Carolina mountain life were performed nationally and internationally beginning in 1923. Most well-known were SUNUP and THE SHAME WOMAN. Vollmer also wrote a radio series produced from 1930-1937. There is one 1955 letter from Elizabeth Brown (Brownie), who she lived with for 25 years.

Dates: 1906-1955