Joseph Urban Papers
1893-1998

BIOGRAPHY

       Joseph Urban (1872-1933) studied architecture at the Akademie der bildenden Künst in his native Vienna. He established himself as an architect as well as a book illustrator, exhibit designer interior decorator and set designer often in collaboration with the painter Heinrich Lefler. Urban and Lefler were co-founders of the Hagenbund an exhibiting society similar to the Secessionists. In 1912 at the age of 40 Urban emigrated to the United States and became the designer for the Boston Opera Company where he introduced the innovations of the New Stagecraft from the european theater. After the Boston Opera Company went bankrupt in 1914 Urban began designing sets in New York. He designed the Ziegfeld Follies as well as all other Ziegfeld productions from 1915 to 1932. In 1917 he began designing for the Metropolitan Opera and continued to do so until his death in 1933. From 1921 to 1925 Urban was also the art director for William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Studios. He had branched out to other artistic endeavors since moving to New York including designing shop windows roof gardens and interior decoration. From 1921 to 1922 he introduced the works of Viennese artists to the United States through his Wiener Werkstätte shop. He received his license to practice architecture in the United States in 1926 after which he designed homes buildings ballrooms and theaters in New York and elsewhere. Notable examples of his extant architecture are the Paramount Theater Building and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Florida and the New School and the Hearst Magazine Building in New York.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

       Collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.

1. VIENNA, 1897-1911 Note: This series contains the records of the architecture and design projects from Urban's career in Vienna. It is arranged chronologically divided into five sections: General files-dated, General files-undated, Illustrations, Exhibits and Unidentified. It contains watercolor drawings, rough drawings, technical drawings, photographs, post cards, clippings, playbooks and exhibit catalogs. Of note are the catalogs from the 1902-1908 Hagenbund exhibits and the photographs of the 1908 Kaiserfest.
1.1: General Files
Bicycle tournament, May 26, 1897 : Note: Urban built a canopy for the tournament festival and made contributions to the program
1	1		Program & description
Kaiser Jubilee Bridge, 1898 : Note: Urban won a competition to design this bridge between the Musikverein and the Künstlerhaus for the celebration of the emperor's 50th year of rule.
			3 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink:
B1	1		--Brucke 1, 29x22 cm., sig.
1	2		--Brucke 2 & 3, 29x22 cm., sig.
1	2		2 photographs
Bosnian Pavilion, 1898 : Note: Also built for the Kaiserfest, the celebration of the emperor's 50th year of rule. See also postcard at Avery Library
1	3		4 post cards
Rathauskeller, 1899 : Note: With Heinrich Lefler.
			4 drawings, watercolor/ink on board:
1	4		--Large dining room, 25x18 cm.
1	4		--Staircase, 30x20 cm.
1	4		--Die Sage vom Kussdenpfennig
B1	2		--Strauss table, 28x22 cm.
1	4		2 pencil sketches of murals
A	1		Lamps
1	5		Clipping, Councilmen's room
1	5 & 6		48 photographs, various views
A1	1		4 photographs, various views
1	7		51 prints, various views
Esterházy Estates, 1899, 1903 : Note: Count Karl Esterházy saw Urban and Lefler's Lady's Room in the Winter Exhibit of 1897/98 at the Austrian museum and commissioned them to design an addition for his country chateau in St. Abraham in Hungary. In 1903 Urban designed a fountain for another Esterházy estate.
			8 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink:
1	8		--2. decorative detail, 16x17 cm., sig.
1	8		--II: Fireplace, 25x16 cm.
B1	3		--III: Bedroom, 22x23 cm., sig.
B1	4		--IV: Room with daybed, 26x21 cm., sig.
B1	5		--V: Corner of hall, 27x24 cm.
B1	6		--VI: Dining room, 27x24 cm., sig.
B1	7		--VII: Reception room, 28x24 cm., sig.
1	8		--Bedroom, 16.5x24 cm.
1	8		Wall Fountain, magazine print
C1	1		Wall Fountain, ink drawing, 42x30 cm.
Memorial Chapel for Empress Elizabeth, 1901 : Note: Kaiserin-Elizabeth-Kapelle at Baden bei Wien
			4 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink:
1	9		--Memorial, view from gate, 17x14 cm.
B1	8		--Memorial, front elevation, 24x23 cm.
B1	9		--Memorial, view from gate, 25x17 (20x14) cm.
B1	10		--Memorial w/ front walkway, 25x17 (20x14) cm.
Wähner House, 1900 : Note: Theodor Wähner was the Commissioner in charge of the Rathauskeller renovation and the editor of Deutschen Zeitung.
1	10		2 photographs of building
1	10		Easter note
1	10		Clock, watercolor on board, 27x14 (20x9) cm.
Goltz House, Alexander, 1902 : Note: Urban built and furnished an addition to the house of artist and Hagenbund member, Alexander Goltz on Granzinger Street 87.
			2 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink on board, sig.:
1	11		--Room, corner & plan, 29x21 (24x19) cm.
1	11		--Room, table in foreground, 29x21 (24x20) cm.
Von Wiener House and Office, 1902-1903 : Note: Baron Ritter von Wiener was Minister of Art, director of the Museum for Culture and Teaching and director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Von Wiener was a major patron of Urban and Lefler who provided them with government projects. Baron von Wiener took Urban as a delegate to represent Austria at the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
			3 drawings, watercolor and ink on board:
1	12		--Dining Room elevation, 18x30 cm.
C1	2		--Study- floor and elevation, 30x15 cm.
C1	2		--Study corner, 30x15 cm.
D1	1		--North side elevation, 40x40 cm.
1	12		--Office of the Sectionschef von Stadler, 27x18 cm.
C1	3		5 plans
Spiesejaal Hotel Restaurant, 1905 : Note: Katowice, Poland (formerly, Kattowitz, Prussia)
1	13		5 photographs of dining room
Zwischenspiel, 1905 Note: Burgtheater comedy in 3 acts by Arthur Schnitzler
1	14
B1	11		Set sketch
Hopfner Restaurant, Paul, 1906
			4 drawings, watercolor:
1	15		--Doorknob detail, (16x11) cm.
1	15		--Mantle detail, 20x28 cm.
B1	12		--Entrance elevation, 27x26 cm
B1	12		--Fireplace wall elevation, 26x29 cm.
C1	4		--Wall with mural elevation, 29x48 cm
1	15		4 photographs of restaurant
Hölle Cabaret, 1906 : Note: With Heinrich Lefler. Cabaret in the cellar of the Theater an der Wien
1	16		3 elevations, Theater
			4 drawings, watercolor on board:
B1	13		--Elevation, mask wall, 7/30/06, 25x29 cm., sig.
B1	13		--Elevation, devil waltz, 24x29 cm.
B1	13		--Elevation, mask wall, 34x24 cm.
B1	13		--Curtain elevation, 7/30/06, 26x27 cm., sig.
1	16		Photographs of theater and cabaret
1	16		Program
Urban Home, Nibelungengasse 8, 1906 : Note: Donated by Robert Cole in 1995
1	17		Corner of dining room elevation, 30x20 cm.
A1	2		Salon ground plan, 34x23 cm.
A1	2		Children's room wall elevation, 26x35 cm.
Landau Villa, Dr. Max, 1906 : Note: Villa am Semmering, Südbahnstr. 83
1	18		5 plans, detail drawing
C1	5		5 detail drawings
1	18		7 photographs of house and model
Redlich Villa, Carl, 1906-1907 : Note: Country house of the owner of the construction contracting firm Redlich and Berger
2	1		Sketch of house exterior wall, pencil and ink
			4 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink:
2	1		2 elevations, Else Redlich's room, 20.5x28.5 cm.
C1	6		--elevation of chair and divan, 23.5x34 cm.
C1	6		--elevation of hall, 22x44 cm.
2	1		--Garden lamp detail, 18x29 cm.
C1	6		Ground plan, ink, 26x24 cm.
C1	6		Ground plan, watercolor and pencil, 41x29 cm.
14-9-1	A.1		2 ground plans, 59x50 cm.
2	1		5 photographs
Faust I, II, 1906-07 : Note: Directed by Paul Schlenther with Josef Kainz at the Burgtheater
2	2		Playbook, German
2	2		Set notes, 2 p.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil:
2	2		--Prologue, Vienna, 1907, 17x21 cm.
2	2		--Gretchen's Room, 15x28 cm.
2	2		17 set sketches
2	2		3 postcards of actors in costume
Aschenbrödel (Cinderella), Vienna Hofoper, 1907 :
2	3		4 technical drawings
Kaiser Jubilee Festzug, June 12, 1908 : Note: Celebrating the 60th year of rule of the Emperor Franz Josef.
2	4 & 5		103 photographs of festival
B1	14		Wiener Zeitung leaflet, 4 p.
2	5		Program, 12 p.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 1908, Vienna Hofoper :
2	6		--I: Church, 18x24 (14x20) cm.
B1	15		--I: Church B, 34x22 cm.
2	6		--II: Street, 18x24 (14x20) cm.
2	6		--III.1: workshop, 18x24 (14x20) cm.
2	6		--IV: Meadow, 18x24 (14x20) cm.
2	6		2 p. libretto cover
2	6		15 set elevations
C1	7		4 set elevations
Suburbs, 1909 :
2	7		7 plans
Tombstones and Chapels, 1909 :
2	8		5 sketches
2	8		18 photographs
B1	16 & 17		19 drawings and sketches
14-9-1	A3		Rough sketch
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), 1909, Leipzig Opernhaus :
2	9		Libretto
2	9		5 p. notes
2	9		12 plans and drawings
Der Fliegende Holländer, 1909, Vienna Volksoper, and Budapest :
2	10		Libretto
2	10		Volksoper program, 1909
2	10		2 plans
2	10		4 plans, Budapest
Tannhäuser, 1909 :
2	11		Libretto
2	11		9 set drawings
2	11		Program, Volksoper, 1909
Faust, 1909-11, Gounod, Brunswick :
			2 watercolor drawings:
2	12		--am Brunnen, 19x30 cm.
2	12		--Street, 20x26 cm.
2	12		Osterspaziergang set sketch
Quo Vadis?, 1909-11, Budapest, written by J. Nougués :
2	13		6 set drawings
Oberon, 1909-11, Charlottenburg :
2	14		Ground plan, island
A1	3		8 set drawings
C1	8		4 drawings & plans
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 1909-11, Budapest :
2	6		6 plans
Die Fledermaus, 1909-11, Cologne Opernhaus, written by Johann Strauss :
3	1		4 set drawings
Der Rosenkavalier, 1909-11, Cologne Opernhaus, written by Richard Strauss :
3	2		Libretto
C1	9		3 set elevations
3	2		Article, 2 p.
Salome, 1909-11, Stuttgart Hofoper, written by Richard Strauss :
3	3		Set sketch
Der Ring Des Nibelungen, 1909-11, Budapest :
3	4		Essay on Wagner, 17 p.
3	4		Set notes & inventories, 25 p.
Das Rheingold, Budapest, Brunswick :
3	4		libretto
3	4		2 ground plans, Budapest
3	4		Clipping of set
3	4		10 plans and sketches
D1	2		4 plans
Die Walküre, Budapest, Mannheim National Theater, 1911 :
3	5		Libretto
C1	10		5 technical drawings
3	5		5 sketches and notes
3	5		3 ground plans
3	5		2 ground plans, Budapest
Siegfried :
3	6		2 librettos
3	6		Clipping of Act III
3	6		4 sketches and plans
A1	4		2 drawings
3	6		2 ground plans
Tristan und Isolde, 1909-11 :
3	7		2 librettos
A1	5		Footwear, watercolor and ink, 32x26 cm.
3	7		5 technical drawings
Lohengrin, 1909-11, Stuttgart Hofoper :
			2 drawings, watercolor :
3	8		--I: River bank scene, 9x11 (6x10) cm.
B1	18		--Costume drawing, 26x24 cm.
3	8		4 set drawings, pencil
B1	19		Set drawing, pencil
Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron), 1910 : Note: By Johan Strauss conducted at the Hofoper by Felix Weingartner.
3	9		5 set drawings
Der Junge Medardus, 1910 :
3	10		4 set sketches
Mair House, Dr. Bartl, 1910 : Note: Dr. Mair was the local doctor for Scheiblingkirchen in lower Austria.
3	11		Ground plan and rear elevation
3	11		4 ground plans
3	11		3 photographs of house
Eisenstein House, Viktor, 1910 : Note: Gregor-Mendel-Strasse 6. Eisenstein was the Vienna representative for the New York Life Insurance Company.
3	12
			2 drawings, watercolor, sig. :
B2	1		--Front elevation and ground plan, 29x24 (23x15) cm.
B2	1		--ground plan w/ landscaping, 29x24 (24x17) cm.
Benvenuto Cellini, 1911, Hofoper :
3	13		3 detail drawings
Götterdämmerung, 1911, Mannheim Nationaltheater :
3	14		5 Roller set & costumes designs
3	14		12 set drawings
B2	2		2 set drawings
Lanval, 1911 : Note: Play by Eduard Stucken, Burgtheater
			1 drawing, watercolor:
3	15		--bedroom w/ ground plan
3	15		Set drawing of bedroom
14-9-1	A.2		2 technical drawings
Gudrun, 1912 : Note: Opera by Ernst Hardt, Burgtheater
3	16		4 set drawings
1.2: General Files-Undated
Freytag Library and Salon :
3	17
A1	6		Salon, 2 ladies at piano, 28x24 cm.
1.3: Theater
Blaue Vogel (The Blue Bird) by Maurice Maeterlink :
3	18		12 set sketches
Czar und Zimmermann, by Albert Lortzing, comic opera :
3	19		3 plans
Eisenhammer, Der, music by Benito Bersa, book by A. M. Willner :
3	20		Set sketch
Erasmus Montanus, Ludwig Holberg, play :
3	21		5 sketches and notes
Förster-Christel (The Girl and the Kaiser), operetta by Bernhard Buchbinder :
3	22		4 set sketches
Frau ohne Schatten, by Richard Strauss :
3	23		Libretto
Freischütz, Der, see also Met 1923 :
3	24		4 ground plans
Garde Officier :
3	25		Set sketch
Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxemburg), Franz Lehar :
3	26		Set sketch
Iphigenie auf Tauris, by Christoph Gluck :
3	27		Libretto
3	27		2 set drawings
Jongleur de Notre Dame, (Der Gaukler unserer lieben frauen), by Massenet :
3	28		Libretto, German
			3 drawings and plans, watercolor:
3	28		--I: outside abbey
3	28		--Act II: inside cloister
3	28		--Act III: Chapel
Königskinder, by Engelbert Humperdinck :
3	29		Technical drawing
Landschaft :
3	30		2 landscape drawings
Love's Labor Lost :
4	1		Playbook, German
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) Opera by Otto Nikolai :
4	2		Libretto
Nozze de Figaro (Marriage of Figaro) :
4	3		Libretto, German
Pariser Leben, by Jacques Offenbach :
4	4		3 set drawings
Puppenmädel, operetta by Leo Fall, Leo Stein and Alfred Maria Willner :
4	5		4 set drawings
Rienzi, by Richard Wagner :
4	6		Libretto
4	6		Set notes & sketches, 14 p.
Roméo et Juliette :
4	7		Set sketch
Rose vom Liebesgarten, opera by Hans Pfitzner :
4	8
B2	3		2 set sketches
Schneemann, Der, Erich Wolfgang Korngold :
4	9		Set sketch
Sirene, Die, by Leo Fall, Leo Stein and Alfred Maria Willner :
4	10		2 set sketches
Sister Beatrice and Sumurün :
4	11		Clipping and 2 postcards
Tiefland, opera by Eugen d'Albert :
4	12		Ground plan
C1	11		Elevation drawing
Die Tote Stadt, Erich Wolfgang Korngold :
4	13		Libretto
Verborgte Schloss :
4	14		Set sketch
Waffenschmied, Der, comic opera by Albert Lortzing :
4	15		3 ground plans
Wallenstein's Lager, play by Friedrich Schiller :
4	16		Ground plan
Xantho, operetta by Jacques Richepin and Xavier Leroux :
4	17		2 set sketches
Zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug), comedy by Heinrich von Kleist :
4	18		4 sketches and notes
Zigeunerliebe, (Gypsy Love), music by Franz Lehar, book by A. M. Willner and Robert Bodanzky :
4	19		1 set drawing
1.4: Illustrations
Chronika der drei Schwestern, 1899 :
4	20		--3 illustrations, 23x39 cm.
B2	4		--Medieval street scene, p.8, 24x28 cm.
B2	5		--p. 34, 29x24 (28x23) cm.
4	20		Bookbinding, 1899, watercolor, 21x30 cm., sig.
Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1904 :
4	20		--4 illustrations
A1	7		--Der Froschkönig, 24x25 cm.
B2	6		--Rapunzel, 24x21 cm.
4	20		8 p. Marienkind, 1905
Kling Klang Gloria, 1906 :
4	20		--cover, 24x21 cm.
A1	8		--cover, 23x23 cm.
4	20		Kaiser Calendar, 1898, 24x16 cm.
4	20		Bookcover, 1910 Unsere Freiland Stauden, 29x20 cm.
4	20		Andersen Calendar, 1911
Undated :
4	21		16 miscellaneous drawings
C1	12		Wienermännergesang verein poster, 48x25 cm.
B2	7		Imperial Border, 40x27 cm.
B2	8		Wilhelm II of Germany tribute, 39x20 cm.
4	21		23 borders and ornaments
D1	3		8 borders and ornaments
1.5: Exhibits
Jubiläums-kunst exhibit 1898 :
B3	1		catalog
4	22		3 photographs of furniture, 1898
4	22		Hevesi article, 4 p.
Hagenbund Exhibition Hall, 1901-1902 :
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B2	9		--Entrance, 37x26 (36x25) cm.
4	22		--Perspective of Hall, 28x17 cm.
4	22		--Side elevation, 18x28 cm.
4	22		--Front elevation and ground plan, 29x18 cm.
4	22		--Ceiling, 19x22 cm.
4	22		4 magazine clippings
Art show catalogs :
B3	2		Watercolor club,1899
B3	3		Secession 14th exhibit
B3	4		Vienna Art Show, 1908
Hagenbund Exhibits :
B3	5-36		32 Hagenbund exhibit catalogs, 1902-1906
4	23-26		4 Hagenbund catalogs, 1905, 1908, 1910
4	22		1902 exhibit, Playroom, sig.
5	1 & 2		56 photographs of exhibits (2 sets of 28)
5	5		14 St. Louis World's Fair photograph and copies
5	5		1905, 14 photographs of exhibit
C2	1		1905-06, exhibit #19, Wall elevation, 38x40 cm.
C2	2		1906, 2 plans for 20th Exhibit
5	5		1906, 4 photographs of 20th Oct-Nov exhibit
5	5		15 photographs of exhibits, unidentified
5	5		1908, 19 exhibit photographs
5	5		1906 London announcement, 16x11 cm.
D1	4		1910, elevation of Redlich exhibit room, 58x41 cm.
1.6: Unidentified
5	3		Playbooks, Moliere
5	6		17 watercolor drawings
5	6		22 drawings and plans
5	6		9 photographs
A1	9-10		9 drawings
B2	10		Clock elevation, 21x29 cm., sig.
C2	3		3 elevations
D1	5		Vorraum elevations
14-9-1	A.4		Plans for home and office
II. BOSTON OPERA, 1910-1914 Note: Joseph Urban was made artistic director of the Boston Opera Company beginning with the 1912-1913 season. The previous season, he had designed four operas for the Boston Opera while working in Vienna with Heinrich Lefler. This series contains files on all the productions from the repertory in chronological order. Each production is listed by title, opening date and production information. The production information is based on contemporary reviews taken from microfilm readings of the Boston Transcript and the Boston Herald. Those sets that Urban redesigned or retouched are so noted in parentheses after the title information. In addition to the drawings, plans, and photographs, the files contain production records--light plots, cast lists, set lists, line drops, etc
La Scala invoice for operas Mefistofele, Faust, Lakmé, Manon and Roméo et Juliette :
5	7		Costume Invoice September 1910, 4 p.
14-9-1	A5		Ground Plan, Mefistofele
Pelléas et Mélisande, January 10, 1912 (New) Note: Opera in 5 acts by Claude Debussy, adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, conducted by André Caplet with Vanni Marcoux as Golaud, Georgette LeBlanc as Mélisande and Jean Riddez as Pelléas.
5	4		Maeterlinck playbook incl. Pelléas et Mélisande
5	8		1 drawing of dungeon, pencil
C2	4		10 technical drawings
5	8		10 technical drawings
C2	4		2 drawings of furniture, watercolor
5	8		Production notes, 25 p.
5	8		7 photographs of sets
Hänsel und Gretel, January 27,1912 (New) Note: Opera by Engelbert Humperdinck, libretto by Adelheid Wette, after a fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers, conducted by Wallace Goodrich with Bernice Fisher as Gretel, Jeska Swartz as Hänsel, Maria Claessens as the Witch, Otto Goritz as Peter and Florence De Courcy as the Sandman.
			6 drawings, watercolor & ink:
5	9		--5 details of shoes and head pieces
B2	11		--Details of wigs and head pieces
Tristan und Isolde, February 12, 1912 (New) Note: Opera in 3 acts by Richard Wagner, conducted by Felix Weingartner, with Johanna Gadski as Isolde, Jacques Urlus as Tristan, Pasquale Amato as Kurvenal and Edward Lankow as King Marke
5	10		Libretto
5	10		Set notes in German
			Set drawing, watercolor and pencil:
5	10		--Act I: boat scene
5	10		2 elevations of Act I and II
D1	6		2 technical drawings
5	10		Electrical plot
5	10		5 photographs of sets
Werther, March 1, 1912 Note: Opera by Jules Massenet, conducted by André Caplet
5	11		Production notes, 3 p.
Germania, March 9, 1912 Note: Opera by Alberto Franchetti, conducted by Arnaldo Conti with Bernice Fisher as Jane, Ramon Blanchart as Crisogono, Madeleine D'Olige as Jebbel, Pasquale Amato as Carlo Worms, Carmen Melis as Ricke and Giovanni Zenatello as Loewe.
5	12		Production notes, 2 p.
Le Martyre de Sebastien, March 30, 1912 Note: Music by Claude Debussy, conducted by André Caplet with Evelyn Scotney and Jeska Swartz.
5	13		2 set notes
5	13		2 set sketches
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, November 25, 1912 (New) Note: Opera by Jacques Offenbach, libretto & book by Jules Barbier, after a play by Barbier & Michel Carré based on the stories of the poet E.T.A. Hoffmann, conducted by André Caplet with Edmond Clément as Hoffmann, Vanni Marcoux as Lindorf, Coppélius, Dappertutto and Dr. Miracle, Elvira Leveroni as Niklausse, Bernice Fisher as Olympia and Louise Edvina as Antonia.
6	1		Libretto
6	1		Clipping from German magazine
6	1		3 set sketches, Opéra Comique production
6	1		Set notes, 31 p.
6	1		Production notes, 11 p.
			17 drawings, watercolor, pencil and ink:
6	1		--7 costume drawings
B2	12 & 13		--2 costume drawings, Giulietta
6	1		--6 set details
B2	14		--2 set details
6	1		1/2 detail of elevation, photostat
B2	14		5 ground plans
6	1		6 photographs of costume drawings
6	2		26 photographs of sets
6	2		Note to Deems Taylor, 1934, ts.
La Bohême, November 27,1912 (retouched) Note: Opera by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Signori Giocosa and Illica, adapted from a novel by Henri Murger, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Lucrezia Bori as Mimì, Léon Laffitte as Rodolfo, Giovanni Polese as Marcello and Fely Dereyne as Musetta.
6	3		2 librettos
6	3		1 p. from Met program, 1913-14
6	3		2 costume drawings, watercolor and pencil
6	3		3 ground plans
6	3		1 cast list from December 6 performance
6	3		5 production notes, 6 p.
6	3		2 photographs of sets
Madama Butterfly, November 29, 1912 (New) Note: Opera by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica, after a play by David Belasco, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Riccardo Martin as Pinkerton, Emmy Destinn as Cio-Cio-San and Giovanni Polese as Sharpless.
6	4		Libretto, German
6	4		Set notes in German, 8 p.
B2	15		Act II, watercolor
6	4		5 ground plans
B2	16		2 ground plans
6	4		Production notes, 10 p.
6	4		6 photographs of set
Il Trovatore, November 30, 1912 Note: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Gertrude Rennyson as Leonora, Léon Laffitte as Manrico, Ramon Blanchart as Di Luna and Maria Claessens as Azucena.
6	5		Libretto
6	5		Production notes, 21 p.
6	5		4 ground plans
B4	1		3 ground plans
6	5		1 set photograph of III.1
Tosca, December 2, 1912 (retouched) Note: Opera by Giacomo Puccini, book by V. Sardou, L. Illica and G. Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Mary Garden as Tosca, Vanni Marcoux as Scarpia, Charles Dalmorès as Cavaradossi, and Aristodemo Sillich as Angelotti.
6	6		Libretto in German
6	6		2 clippings from program
6	6		Watercolor drawing of Act III: Castle Terrace
6	6		Set notes, 8 p.
6	6		2 ground plans
6	6		Production notes, 16 p.
6	6		3 photographs of set
Thaïs, December 7, 1912 (retouched) Note: Opera by Jules Massenet, libretto by Louis Gallet, after a novel by Anatole France, conducted by André Caplet with Mary Garden as Thaïs, Vanni Marcoux as Athanael and Charles Dalmorés as Nicias.
6	7		Set notes, 7 p.
6	7		Production notes,18 p.
6	7		2 photographs of set
Lucia di Lammermoor, December 14, 1912 Note: Opera by Gaetano Donizetti, conducted by Ralph Lyford with Evelyn Scotney as Lucia, Umberto Sacchetti as Edgardo, Rodolfo Fornari as Enrico and Ernesto Giaccone as Arturo.
6	8		Production notes, 20 p.
6	8		Photograph of set
Louise, December 18,1912 (New) Note: Opera by Gustave Charpentier, conducted by André Caplet with Louise Edvina as Louise, Edmond Clément as Julien, Maria Gay as La Mère and Vanni Marcoux as Le Père.
6	9		2 references clippings
			3 set renderings, watercolor:
6	9		--Act I & IV: Garret
6	9		--Act II: At the foot of Montmartre
6	9		--Act III: Garden
6	9		2 ground plans
14-9-1	A6		1 ground plan, Act II
6	9		Production notes, 12 p.
6	9		5 photographs of set drawing and sets
La Traviata, December 21, 1912 Note: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on the story by Alexandre Dumas La Dame Aux Camelias, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Evelyn Scotney as Violetta, Alfredo Ramella as Alfredo, Ramon Blanchart as Germont and Attilio Pulcini as Baron Douphol.
6	10		3 ground plans
6	10		Production notes, 11 p.
6	10		Photograph of set
Aïda, December 27, 1912 (Retouched) Note: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, after a scenario by Auguste Mariette, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Giovanni Zenatello as Radames, Anafesto Rossi as Amonasro, Maria Gay as Amneris and Carmen Melis as Aïda.
7	1		2 librettos
7	1		Set notes in German, 4 p.
B4	2		4 ground plans
B25	7		3 costume sketches
7	1		Production notes, 19 p.
7	1		3 photographs of sets
Coppélia, December 28, 1912 Note: Ballet by Léo Delibes, conducted by Charles Strony with Dolores Galli as Swanilda. Attilio Pulcini as Burgomaster and Cronan as Frantz.
B4	3		Ground plan
7	2		Production notes, 5 items
7	2		2 photographs of sets
Cavalleria Rusticana, December 30, 1912 Note: Opera by Pietro Mascagni, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Maria Gay as Santuzza, Umberto Sacchetti as Turiddu, Anafesto Rossi as Alfio.
7	3		Libretto
7	3		Production notes, 3 p.
7	3		Photograph of set
Curtain and Concerts, 1912-13
7	4
B4	4		2 ground plans, 1912
B4	5		2 drawings of drapery ornament, watercolor, Feb 1913
I Pagliacci, January 4, 1913 Note: Opera by Leoncavallo, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Edith Barnes as Nedda, Ramon Blanchart as Tonio, Giuseppe Gaudenzi as Canio and George Everett as Silvio.
7	5		Libretto
7	5		Village, watercolor, sig.
7	5		Ground plan
7	5		5 p. production notes
7	5		Photograph of set
Carmen, January 15, 1913 (retouched) Note: Opera by Georges Bizet, libretto by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy, after a novel by Prosper Mérimée, conducted by Charles Strony with Giovanni Zenatello as Don Jose, Maria Gay as Carmen and José Mardones as Escamillo.
7	6		Libretto
7	6		Clipping of Met stage sets
7	6		8 ground plans
B4	6		4 ground plans
7	6		28 production notes
7	6		2 photographs of set
I Gioielli della Madonna, January 17, 1913 (New) Note: Opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, libretto by Carlo Zangarini & Enrico Golisciani, with Giovanni Zenatello as Gennaro, Maria Gay as Carmela, Louise Edvina as Maliella and Vanni Marcoux as Raffaele.
7	7		Synopsis in German, 24 p.
7	7		Article in German, 1 p.
B4	7		3 prints of Charlottenburg sets by von Plessen
			3 renderings, watercolor:
7	7		--2 costume renderings, Madonna, 24x14 cm.
7	7		--Procession scene, 17x31 cm.
7	7		2 rough sketches
7	7		3 ground plans, Berlin opera house
B4	7		1 ground plan
7	7		1 cast list
7	7		9 photographs of sets
Rigoletto, January 25, 1913 Note: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after the play by Victor Hugo Le roi s'amuse, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Evelyn Scotney as Gilda, Michele Sampieri as Monterone, Rodolfo Fornari as Rigoletto and Alfredo Ramella as the Duke.
7	8		1 cast list
7	8		1 set of production notes, 17 p.
7	8		1 set photo
Don Giovanni, February 7, 1913 (New) Note: Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, conducted by Felix Weingartner with Vanni Marcoux as Don Giovanni, Adamo Didur as Leporello, John McCormack as Don Ottavio, Emmy Destinn as Donna Anna and Elizabet Amsden as Donna Elvira.
7	9		Cast list
7	9		Libretto
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
7	9		--Act I: Garden scene, signed by Errol
7	9		3 ground plans
B4	8		3 technical drawings
7	9		Production notes, 6 p.
7	9		13 retouched photos of sets
7	10		22 photographs of sets and set drawings
La Fanciulla del West, February 21, 1913 Note: Opera by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Guelfo Civinini & Carlo Zangorini, based on the play by David Belasco The Girl of the Golden West, with Carmen Melis as Minnie, Giovanni Polese as Jack Rance and Giovanni Zenatello as Dick Johnson.
7	11		Ground plan
14-9-1	A7		3 ground plans
7	11		Production notes, 9 p.
7	11		2 photographs of set
Djamileh, February 24, 1913 (New) Note: American premiere of opera by Georges Bizet, libretto by Louis Gallet, after the story by Alfred de Musset Namouna, conducted by Felix Weingartner with Lucille Marcel as Djamileh, Léon Laffitte as Haroun and Ernesto Giaccone as Spendiano.
7	12		Libretto
7	12		Set notes in German, 34 p.
7	12		3 rough set sketches:
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
B4	9		--wall elevation, 22x29 (22x23) cm., sig.
7	12		Production notes, 2 p.
7	12		3 photographs of set
Faust, February 26,1913 (redesigned costumes, retouched) Note: Opera by Charles Gounod, libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carré, adapted from the dramatic poem by Goethe, conducted by Felix Weingartner with Giovanni Zenatello as Faust, Lucille Marcel as Marguerite and Vanni Marcoux as Méphistophélès.
7	13		2 librettos
7	13		1 costume drawing, watercolor
B4	10		4 ground plans
7	13		Production notes, 18 p.
7	13		12 photographs of costume and set drawings
La Forêt Bleue, March 8, 1913 (American premiere) (New) Note: Opera by Louis Aubert, conducted by André Caplet with Fernand De Potter as Prince Charming, Jean Riddez as the Orge, Carmen Melis as the Princess, Jeska Swartz as Tom Thumb and Bernice Fisher as Little Red Riding -Hood.
7	14		Libretto
7	14		Synopsis, 5 p.
7	14		Production notes, 9 p.
7	14		4 photographs of sets
Samson et Dalila, March 12, 1913 (retouched) Note: Opera by Camille Saint-Saëns, libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire, conducted by André Caplet with Maria Gay as Dalila, Giovanni Zenatello as Samson and Jean Riddez as the High Priest.
7	15		Libretto
7	15		Postcard of set
7	15		Set rendering, watercolor
7	15		Production notes, 11 p.
7	15		2 photographs of costume and set
Il Segreto di Susanna, March 17,1913 (New) Note: Opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, libretto by Max Kalbeck, adapted from a book by Enrico Golisciani, conducted by André Caplet with Antonio Scotti as Count Gil, Alice Nielsen as Countess Gil and Luigi Tavecchia as Sante.
8	1		Libretto
8	1		1 p. of sample fabrics, costume
B4	11		Drawing of back wall, watercolor
8	1		2 watercolor drawings, side wall and detail
8	1		10 plans and sketches
D1	7		3 ground plans
8	1		Production notes, 8 p.
8	1		6 photographs of set
Martha, March 24, 1913 Note: Opera by Friedrich von Flotow, libretto W. Friedrich, after an idea by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Alice Nielsen as Lady Harriet, Maria Gay as Nancy, Max Lipmann as Lionel and Edward Lankow as Plunkett.
D1	8		1 ground plan, Act III & V
8	2		2 set notes and plan
8	2		Production notes, 8 p.
			Photograph of set
Monna Vanna, December 5, 1913 (New) Note: Opera by Henri Février, based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck, conducted by André Caplet with Vanni Marcoux as Guido, Mary Garden as Monna Vanna and Lucien Muratore as Prinzivalle.
8	3		Libretto, German
8	3		Production notes, 31 p.
8	3		3 working photographs
			3 set renderings, watercolor on board:
8	3		--Act I: Interior
8	3		--Act II: Tent (painted photo)
8	3		--Act III: Terrace
8	3		2 watercolor sketches with plan
8	3		2 detail drawings, watercolor, 1 sig.
14-9-2	1		5 technical drawings
8	3		11 photographs of sets and scenes
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), December 13, 1913 Note: Opera by Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Cesare Sterbini, adapted from the play by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais, conducted by Arnaldo Schiavoni with Hazel Sanborn as Rosina, Rodolfo Fornari as Figaro, Luigi Tavecchia as Dr. Bartolo and Alfredo Ramella as Il Conte D'Almaviva.
8	4		2 ground plans
B4	12		Ground plan, Act I
8	4		Production notes, 6 p.
8	4		Photograph of Act II
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, January 23, 1914 (New) Note: Opera by Richard Wagner, conducted by André Caplet with Johanna Gadski as Eva, Robert Leonhardt as Beckmesser, Paolo Ludikar as Hans Sachs and Carl Jörn as Walther.
8	5		Reference material
14-9-2	2		Reference material
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil on board:
8	5		--Act I: Church , 19x26 cm.
8	5		--Property elevations, 19x27 cm., sig.
B4	13		--Act II: Costumes, night scene, 18x26 cm., sig.
B4	14		--Act III: Costumes, open meadow, sig.
B4	15		--Act III.2: details, 29x19.5 cm., sig.
B4	16		--Act III.2: platform elevation, 22x26 cm., sig.
B4	17		--Property details, 28.5x19 cm., sig.
14-9-2	2		2 technical drawings
8	5		Production notes, 15 p.
8	5		17 photographs of sets and set drawings
La Gioconda, February 6, 1914 Note: Opera by Amilcare Ponchielli, libretto by Tobia Gorrio, after the play by Victor Hugo Angélo, tyran de Padoue, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Emmy Destinn as La Gioconda, Florencio Constantino as Enzo, Marguerite D'Alvarez as Laura and Mario Ancona as Barnaba.
8	6		Production notes, 6 p.
B4	18		Ground plan
L'Amore dei Tre Re, February 9, 1914 (New) Note: Opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi, adapted from poem by Sem Benelli, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana as Avito, Lucrezia Bori as Fiora and Pasquale Amato as Manfredo.
8	7		Libretto
8	7		3 photographs of Met production
8	7		1 page from Met program
B4	19		Ground plan
8	7		Ground plan and elevation
8	7		1 cast list
8	7		10 photographs of costumes, sets and set drawings
Manon, March 18, 1914 Note: Opera by Jules Massenet, libretto by Henri Meilhac & Philippe Gille, after the novel by Antoine-Francois Prevost, L'histoire du chevalier de Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, conducted by Edouard Tournon with Jenny Dufau as Manon, Lucien Muratore as Des Grieux and Alban Grand as De Brétigny.
8	8		3 p. from Met program
8	8		5 photographs of set
Otello, Paris Tour, May 5, 1914 (New) Note: Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa, based on the play by William Shakespeare, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana as Otello, Vanni Marcoux as Iago and Nellie Melba as Desdemona.
8	9		Libretto
8	9		Playbook
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil:
8	9		--Iago
B4	20		--Act II: Garden
8	9		--Act III: Castle interior, sig.
8	9		--Act III: Castle detail
8	9		Article on Verdi, 1 p.
8	9		3 technical drawings
14-9-1	A.8		7 ground plans
8	9		Production notes, 6 p.
8	9		15 photographs of sets and set drawings
Parsifal, Paris Tour, June 3, 1914 (New) Note: Opera by Richard Wagner, conducted by Felix Weingartner with Johannes Sembach as Parsifal, Margarete Matzenauer as Kundry and August Kiess as Klingsor.
8	10		2 librettos in German, pamphlets
8	10		1 libretto in German, hardback
8	10		Clipping of scenes
9	1		4 German post cards
9	1		Act I.1: Spring, painted photograph
9	1		Sketch, Klingsor tower
9	1		Drawing, watercolor and pencil: --Klingsor tower detail
9	1		6 photographs of set drawings
9	1		1 newspaper article, German
Francesca Da Rimini, 1914
9	2		Swedish transportation schedule
9	2		Libretto
9	2		3 sketches
B4	21		4 ground plans
9	2		10 photographs of set drawings and costumes
Louse Edvina, Musical America, 1/29/16
B4	21
La Muette de Portici, (Dumb Girl of Portici) November 23, 1915 (New) Note: Opera by Daniel Auber, libretto by Eugene Scribe, conducted by Agide Jacchia with Anna Pavlowa as Fenella, Giovanni Zenatello as Masaniello and Giori Michailoff as Alfonso.
9	3		Notes and sketches, 6 p.
			3 drawings, watercolor :
9	3		--Act II: island
9	3		--Act IV: fountain, stone lion
9	3		--Act V: interior
9	3		5 technical drawings
B4	22		Ground plan, Act I
Undated Articles
9	4		Les Arts Décoratifs au Théâtre, 5 p.
Boston Office
9	5		2 photographs of studio office
Don Pasquale, Donizetti Note: Performed in the 1909-10, 1910-11 seasons
9	6		1 clipping of set design
9	6		1 libretto
9	6		3 production notes
9	6		1 photograph of set
Elijah, Oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn
9	7		Drawing, Rocky landscape, sig.
Erste Walpurgisnacht, Die, Mendelssohn
			2 drawings, watercolor, sig. :
9	8		--Costume, 20 furies, 20x17 cm.
9	8		--Costume, druids, detail 13, 20x16 cm.
9	8		Notes and sketches, 17 p.
9	8		11 photographs of sets & costumes
Habañera, Raoul La Parra Note: Performed in the 1909-1910, 1911-12 season
9	9		Libretto
Hippodamia, Andre Campra
9	10		Set notes, 6 p.
9	10		Notes and sketches, 15 p.
B4	23		Plan
Lakmé, Léo Delibes Note: Performed in the 1909-10 season
9	11		Production notes, 4 p.
9	11		4 photographs of sets
Librettos
9	12		--Ballo in Maschera
9	12		--Boris Godunov
9	12		--Conchita
9	12		--Forza del Destino overture
9	12		--Nozze de Figaro
9	12		--Orfeo ed Euridice libretto, piano score
9	12		--Siegfried, 2 librettos
Loeffler's Opera, Charles Martin Loeffler
9	13		Notes, German, 7 p.
Mignon, Abroise Thomas Note: Performed in the 1911-12 season.
9	14		Libretto
9	14		Production notes, 3 p.
Parisina, Pietro Mascagni
9	15		Newspaper clipping, 1913
Pipe of Desire, Frank S. Converse
9	16		Libretto
9	16		Script, Italian, 15 p.
9	16		Line Drops, 1 p.
9	16		2 photographs of scenes
Sacrifice, Frank S. Converse Note: Performed in the 1910-11 season
9	17		Production notes, 3 p.
9	17		3 photographs of sets
III. NEW YORK Click HERE for an item level description of the New York Series with links to digital images. Note: This series is arranged chronologically within five subseries: Theater, Ziegfeld, Met, Film, and Architecture and Design. The series are preceded by a listing of general files in which photograph scrapbooks, clippings scrapbooks and Square Yard Books are followed by undated and unidentified files. The clippings scrapbooks are the major source for Urban's New York career and document some projects and activities not found in the archive. The square yard books contain drawings and measurements of set pieces for opera, theater and film sets. There is very little documentation in the form of letters, contracts, and financial accounts. Numerous photographs of sets and set models are to be found but production photographs are rare.
3.1: General Files
A2-A6			4 Photo scrapbooks, 1912-1933
			Clipping Scrapbooks 1914-1933         Mcrofilm [6/2034-2036, 98/10117-10119]
10	1-4		5 Square Yard Books, 1922-1925
10	5		Inventory of pounces, 1933
3.2: Undated
Studio-Yonkers :
10	6		7 photographs of Yonkers studio
10	6		2 drawings of proposed studio
10	7		Reference
Unidentified drawings :
10	8		45 drawings and photographs
10	9		26 sketches and notes
11	1		16 photographs
3.3: Theater, 1914-1933 Note: This subseries records the productions that Urban designed for producers other than Florenz Ziegfeld. It contains reference material, scripts, watercolor drawings, technical drawings, photographs and programs, and is arranged chronologically. Each production is listed by title, followed by the opening date and production information. The production information is from Bordman, Gerald M. American Theatre, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Leiter, Samuel. The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989 Mantle, Burns, ed. The Best Plays Series. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
11	2		Articles on set design, 1934, 1966
11	3		Trees & borders
11	4		Undated scripts
Twelfth Night, November 23, 1914 : Note: Play by William Shakespeare, revived by Liebler and Co. (George C. Tyler) at the Liberty Theater with Eben Plympton, Walter Creighton, Henry E. Dixey, Edith Campbell Walker, Jessie Busley and Phyllis Neilson-Terry. 8 performances.
11	5		Play
11	5		Production notes, 11 p.
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
11	5		--I. Orsino's Palace, 19x29 (16x27) cm.
B5	4		--I.5: before Olivia's House, 19x29 (16x27) cm.
11	5		--II.2: Olivia's Garden, 19x29 (16x27) cm.
11	5		--III.2: Malvolio's Prison, 19x29 (16x27) cm.
11	5		6 set sketches
C2	7		2 plans for portal
11	5		9 plans
11	5		9 photos of set drawings
Garden of Paradise, November 28, 1914 : Note: Play in nine scenes by Edward Sheldon based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, directed by O. P. Heggie, produced by Liebler and Co. (George C. Tyler) at the Park Theater. 17 performances.
11	6 & 7		Script, part 1 & 2
11	8		Booklet, set notes in German
11	8		German article on sea dragon
11	8		Lefler print for Der Graf von Cilli
11	8		2 reference photos
11	8		Costume sketch, pencil
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
11	8		--costume drawings, Act I,II, 16x20 cm.
11	8		--costume drawing, Act III, 16x10 cm.
11	8		--props-chests, 16x24 cm.
11	8		--Act I: Under the Sea, 13x22 cm.
11	8		--Act I: Under the Sea, 20x30 cm.
B5	5		--Under the Sea, Octopus, 25x30 cm.
B5	6		--Glade Scene, 23x36 (21x33) cm., sig.
11	8		Set sketch, pencil
D2	5		9 technical drawings
11	9		71 photographs of sets & costumes
Behold Thy Wife,1915 : Note: The show opened and closed in Washington DC
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B5	7		--Act III: Library, 23x36 cm., sig.
11	10		5 technical drawings
D2	6		3 technical drawings
11	10		6 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Yesterday or Tomorrow, October 8, 1915 : Note: Fashion extravaganza in 4 acts, written by Pierre de Lanux, directed by Julian Mitchell, sponsored by the International Fashion Show Association and the New York Globe at Carnegie Hall to aid the Actors' Fund of America.
12	1		Script, 18 p.
			2 costume renderings, watercolor and pencil :
12	1		--Marguerite costume design
D2	7		--Costume sketch, male
12	1		4 plans
D2	7		4 technical drawings
12	1		1 photograph of proscenium idea
12	1		Program
Around the Map (Here Comes Tootsie), November 1, 1915 : Note: Musical revue in 3 acts, book and lyrics by C. M. S. McLellan, music by Herman Finck, musical numbers staged by Julian Mitchell, directed by Herbert Gresham, produced by Klaw and Erlanger at the New Amsterdam Theater with Hazel Cox, Else Adler, William Norris and Robert Pitkin. 104 performances.
12	2		Set notes in German and English
			1 drawing-watercolor, sig.
12	2		---Act III.2: Sitting Room, 22x33 cm.
12	2		3 technical drawings
D2	8		2 technical drawings
12	2		22 photographs of set drawings
12	2		Program, Dec. 6, 1915
Pavlowa Ballet, 1915-1917 : Note: Urban designed sets for Giselle, Orpheo, and "Snowflakes" from Act I of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
12	3		--Preliminary sketch for Orpheo
12	3		4 letters/telegrams from V. Dandré, 5 p.
D2	9		1 ground plan
12	3		6 photographs of set drawings
Macbeth, February 7, 1916 : Note: Tragedy by William Shakespeare, directed by James K. Hackett at the Criterion Theater with Mr. Hackett as Macbeth and Viola Allen as Lady Macbeth. 40 performances.
12	4		Set analysis, 3 p.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B5	8		--Outside the castle, 24x36 (20x32) cm.
B5	9		--Battlements, 24x36 (20x32) cm., sig.
12	4		7 technical drawings
14-9-2	4		25 technical drawings
12	4		27 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
The Greatest Nation, February 28, 1916 : Note: Play in 3 acts by Marion Creighton and William Elliott, directed by Cyril Scot, produced by William Elliott at the Booth theater. 16 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B5	10		--Bedroom, 24x33 (21x32) cm.
12	5		4 details and plans
D2	10		7 technical drawings
12	5		6 photographs of set drawings
			Set model.
Pom-Pom, February 28, 1916 : Note: Comic opera in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Anne Caldwell, music by Hugo Felix, directed by George Marion, produced by Henry W. Savage at the Cohan Theater. 128 performances.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
12	6		--Prison Court, 15x23 (12x20) cm.
12	6		--Green room, 12x20 cm.
B5	11		--Elephant scene, 23x35 (20x30) cm.
D2	11		1 plan
12	6		6 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Merry Wives of Windsor, March 20, 1916 : Note: Comedy by William Shakespeare, produced by James K. Hackett at the Criterion Theater for the Shakespeare tercentenary, directed by Richard Ordynski with Thomas A.Wise, Orrin Johnson, Viola Allen and Henrietta Crosman.
12	7		Opera libretto with notes, German
12	7		Playbook, English
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
12	7		--Street Scene, 11x21 cm.
12	7		--Street Scene, 15x23 (10x18) cm.
D2	12		5 technical drawings
12	7		16 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Caliban of the Yellow Sands, May 24, 1916 : Note: Masque based on works of Shakespeare by Percy MacKaye, produced by Joseph Urban and Richard Ordynski, inner settings designed by Robert Edmond Jones, with John Drew and Margaret Wycherly at the Lewisohn Stadium of City College of New York.
12	8		Letter from Percy MacKaye, March 6, 1916
12	8		Masque Structure, ts., 2 p.
12	8		Article, Caliban-1916, ts., 2 p.
B5	12		Tower detail for stage in pencil, 25x38 cm.
B5	13		Sight lines, 25x38 cm.
			6 drawings, watercolor, sig. :
D3	1		--ground plan, 42x37 (36x40) cm
D3	2		--tower detail, 50x38 (41x28) cm
14-10-2	2		--stage, 38x76 (34x76) cm.
14-10-2	4		--ground plan, 82x59 (74x58) cm
B5	14		--Worship god Osiris, 22x36 (18x30) cm.
C2	8		--Setebos, 35x43 cm.
12	8		5 watercolor drawings of interval sets
12	8		2 programs
12.9-13	1		72 photographs
13	1		1 photo scrapbook
Flora Bella, September 11, 1916 : Note: Operetta in 3 acts, book by Felix Doermann, revised and adapted by Cosmo Hamilton, music by Charles Cuvillier and Milton Schwarzwald, produced by John Cort, dances by Carl Randall, directed by Richard Ordynski at the Casino Theater. Moved to the 44th Street Theater on November 27, 1916. 112 performances.
13	2		2 photographs of set drawings
Miss Springtime, September 25, 1916. : Note: Musical comedy in 3 acts, book by Guy Bolton, music by Emmerich Kalman, ensembles by Julian Mitchell, directed by Herbert Gresham, produced by Klaw and Erlanger at the New Amsterdam Theater. 224 performances.
			Drawing, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B5	15		--Act I: outside Post Office, 37x45 (18x27) cm.
D3	3		3 technical drawings
13	3		10 photographs of set drawings and sets
Othello, 1916 :
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
13	4		--Act II: Dining Hall, 18x25 (14x22) cm.
13	4		--Act V: Entrance to garden, 18x25 (14x22) cm.
13	4		--Act V: Desdemona's room, 18x25 (14x22) cm.
13	4		Script with tip-in letter from James K. Hackett
Interstate Opera Company, 1916 : Note: Urban was contracted to do 8 sets for this company which was made up of interests from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cincinnati, joined together as a corporation to bring opera to the interior. The corporation collapsed after the United States entry into the First World War.
13	5		Pagliacci        2 ground plans
D3	4		2 ground plans
Lakmé :
13	5		Drawing, II: Opening, market group, Detail 14
D3	5		3 ground plans
Tristan Und Isolde :
13	5		Set notes, 5 p.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B6	1		--Act I: Boat, preliminary sketch, 20x26 (15x23) cm.
B6	2		--Act I: boat, 1917, 24x33 (21x31) cm.
B6	3		--Act II: King Mark's Castle, 20x26 (15x23) cm.
			1 photograph, retouched with watercolor, sig. :
13	5		--Act III: Tristan's Courtyard, 16x24 (10x17) cm.
13	5		3 ground plans
13	5		5 photographs of set drawings
13	5		Clipping
Studio Accounts, 1916-1919, 38 p. :
13	6
Nju, March 22, 1917 : Note: Written by Ossip Dymow, translated by Rosallind Ivin, produced by Joseph Urban and Richard Ordynski at the Bandbox Theater with Ann Andrews, Henry Stanford and Thomas Mitchell. 44 performances.
13			Clippings, 2 p.
13	7		Script in German
13	7		Script notes, 4 p.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B31	1		--bedroom, dining room, 23x37 (18x24) cm.
B31	2		--2 rooms, 30x24 (25x18) cm., sig.
13	7		Invitation Detail 7
13	7		3 invitations
13	7		Billing and Accounts, 35 p.
13	7		4 photographs of production
Riviera Girl, September 24, 1917 : Note: Musical comedy in 3 acts, music by Emmerich Kalman based on his Czardasfürstin, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, with songs by Jerome Kern, produced by Klaw and Erlanger at the New Amsterdam with Louis Cassavant and Wilda Bennett. 78 performances.
D3	6		6 ground plans
13	8		5 photographs of set drawings
Jack O'Lantern, October 16, 1917 : Note: Musical extravaganza in 2 acts by Anne Caldwell and R. H. Burnside, music by Ivan Caryll, directed by R. H. Burnside, produced by Charles Dillingham at the Globe Theater with Fred Stone. Included sets by Homer Ewens and Ernest Albert. 265 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B31	3		--Clown curtain, 26x28 (20x23) cm.
14-9-2	5		6 technical drawings
13	9		7 photographs of set drawings
Glorianna, October 28, 1918 : Note: Play with music in 3 acts, book and lyrics by Catherine Chisholm Cushing, music by Rudolf Friml, directed by Clifford Brooke, produced by John Cort at the Liberty Theater. 96 performances.
13	10		1 script
13	10		2 photographs of sets
The Invisible Foe, December 30, 1918. : Note: Play in 3 acts by Walter Hackett, produced and directed by Thomas Dixon at the Harris Theater with Daisy Vivian and Frank Andrews. 112 performances.
C2	9		1 ground plan
13	11		2 photographs of set drawing
London Revue, 1918-1920 : Note: Albert DeCourville commissioned Urban to make sets for a Follies-style revue in London.
13	12		1 agreement and 3 letters regarding set drawings
Belle Hélène,1919, unrealized : Note: Operetta in 3 acts, music by Jacques Offenbach, director-Richard Ordynski
13	13		Libretto
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B6	4		--Act I: Temple, not used, 25x36 cm.
B6	5		--Act II: Boudoir, not used, 24x34 cm.
B6	6		--Act III: Nauplia, 31x40 cm.
13	13		5 photographs of set drawings
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Detroit symphony, 1919 :
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
D3	7		--Symphony concert set (dated 1925), 43x50 (30x41) cm.
13	14		2 photographs of set drawing dated 1919
Hitchy Koo, October 6, 1919. : Note: A revue in 2 parts, book by George V. Hobart, music and lyrics by Cole Porter, produced by Raymond Hitchcock at the Liberty Theater with Raymond Hitchcock, Florence O'Denishawn and Princess White Deer.
13	15		4 photographs of sets
Apple Blossoms, (Marriage Knot), October 7, 1919. : Note: Operetta in prologue and 2 acts, music by Fritz Kreisler and Victor Jacobi, book and lyrics by William Le Baron, produced by Charles Dillingham at the Globe with Adele and Fred Astaire in supporting roles. 236 performances.
14	1		5 letters, 1919
			5 drawings-Watercolor :
C3	1		--Act I: School Garden (28x48) cm.
B6	7		--Act I: School Garden, not used (25x27) cm., sig.
C3	2		--Act II: Parlor (27x44) cm.
C3	3		--Act III: Ballroom (28x47) cm.
B6	8		--Act III: Ballroom, not used (25x28) cm., sig.
14	1		Sketches and notes, 14 p.
14	1		2 photographs of set drawings
14-9-2	6		4 technical drawings
			Set model
A Young Man's Fancy, October 15, 1919 : Note: A comedy in 3 acts by John T. McIntyre, produced by George C. Tyler at The Playhouse with Philip Merivale and Jeanne Eagels.
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B6	9		--Window Garden, 25x35 (18x28) cm.
B6	10		--Shop Window, 25x35 (18x28) cm.
B6	11		--Dining Room, 21x32 (16x28) cm.
B6	12		--NY Street Scene at Night, 25x35 (18x28) cm.
A1	15		Working photograph
14	2		Sketches, 2 p.
D3	8		8 technical drawings
14	2		7 photographs of set drawings
Rose of China, November 25, 1919 : Note: Musical comedy by Guy Bolton, lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse, music by Armand Vecsey, produced by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest at the Lyric Theater with Oscar Shaw, Jane Richardson and Edna May Oliver. 6 weeks.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B6	13		--I: garden, 30x41 (23x36) cm.
B6	14		--II: bungalow, 24x36 (21x34) cm.
14	3		11 notes and sketches
14-9-2	7		2 ground plans
14	3		2 photographs of set drawings
Smilin' Through, December 30, 1919 : Note: Play in prolog and 3 acts by Allan Langdon Martin, directed by Priestly Morrison, produced by the Selwyns at the Broadhurst Theater with Jane Cowl, Henry Stephenson and Orme Caldara.
14	4		2 scripts
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B7	1		--Garden gate, 25x37 (19x27) cm.
14-9-2	8		6 technical drawings
14	4		4 photographs of set drawings
Singer Midgets, 1920-1923 :
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
14	5		--Chapel of Wedding Bells, 23x19 (16x15) cm., sig.
14	5		--Chapel, 23x18.5 (16x15) cm.
14	5		--Gingerbread House, 15x26 (14x26) cm., sig.
14	5		--Ice Cream Pavilion, 19x23 (11x18) cm., sig.
14	5		--Post Office, signed, 19x23 (14x14) cm., sig.
14	5		1 photograph of Village set
Merry Widow, September 5, 1921 : Note: Operetta in 3 acts, music by Franz Lehar, lyrics by Adrian Ross, produced by Henry W. Savage, directed by George Marion at the Knickerbocker Theater with Lydia Lipkowska, Reginald Pasch and Jefferson De Angelis. 56 performances. Urban designed the sets but asked to have his name removed from the production due to a disagreement with Savage over the design of the 3rd act.
14	6		Script
14	6		3 ground plans
14-9-1	A10		5 technical drawings
14	6		Notes on Savage/Urban disagreement, 4 p.
14	6		3 photographs of set drawings
The Love Letter, October 4, 1921 : Note: Musical comedy in 3 acts adapted from The Phantom Rival by Ferenc Molnar, book and lyrics by William Le Baron, music by Victor Jacobi, directed by Edward Royce, produced by Charles Dillingham at the Globe Theater with John Charles Thomas, and Fred and Adele Astaire. 31 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
B31	4		--dream scene, 26x13 (16x25) cm
14	7		Sketches and notes, 11 p.
14-9-2	9		9 technical drawings
14	7		1 program
Blaue Mazur, 1921 : Note: Urban had agreed to design the Lehar operetta for Henry W. Savage. The project was canceled after Urban and Savage had a disagreement regarding the sets for The Merry Widow.
14	8		Director's playbook
Yankee Princess, October 2, 1922 : Note: Musical comedy adapted from the Viennese operetta Die Bajadere by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald, with book by William Le Baron, lyrics by B. G. De Sylva, music by Emmerich Kalman, choreographed by Julian Mitchell, directed by Fred G. Latham, produced by A. L. Erlanger at the Knickerbocker Theater with Vivienne Segal and Thorpe Bates. 80 performances.
			3 set renderings, watercolor and pencil :
14	9		--Act I: Theater Lobby, 21x31 (16x25) cm.
14	9		--Act II: Princess Room, 20x30 (16x25) cm.
14	9		--Act III: Club room, 21x31 (16x25) cm.
14-9-2	10		4 technical drawings
Dream Girl, August 20, 1924 : Note: The premiere of this musical, produced by Lee and J. J. Shubert at the Ambassador Theater and starring Fay Bainter was designed by Watson Barratt.
14	10		Script notes
Orpheum Circuit, 1925 :
D3	9		3 blueprints
			14 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B7	2		--Garden, 26x32 (15x23) cm.
B7	3		--Mountain panorama, 25x33 (13x21) cm.
B7	4		--Pavilion, 25x33 (13x21) cm.
B7	5		--Club room, 25x32 (16x25) cm.
B7	6		--Terrace, 26x36 (13x21) cm.
B7	7		--Library, 23x35 (13x21) cm.
B7	8		--White interior, 26x33 (13x21) cm.
B7	9		--Drawing room drop, 26x31 (13x21) cm.
B7	10		--Street Scene, 24x35 (18x29) cm.
B7	11		--Oriental city, 25x33 (19x29) cm.
B7	12		--Park drop, 26x31 (14x22) cm.
B7	13		--Drawing room, 26x31 (13x21) cm.
B7	14		--Portal, not used, 23x31 (16x27) cm.
B7	15		--Conservatory, 26x31 (13x21) cm.
14	11		1 scaled drawing of eagle
Mayflower Hotel Stage Setting, 1925 :
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
14	12		--Woman fg., street scene
14	12		--Champs Elysees, 21x26 (11x16) cm.
14	12		--stage setting, 22x25 cm
14	12		9 technical drawings
14-9-2	11		11 technical drawings
14-9-2	11		1 drawing of slouching panther
14	12		1 photograph of stage setting
Human Nature (Gun Powder), September 24, 1925 : Note: Comedy in 3 acts by J. C. and Elliott Nugent, produced by Gene Buck, directed by J. C. Nugent and Frederick Stanhope with Mary Duncan, Brandon Tynan, John Marston and Frank Conroy at the Liberty Theater. 4 performances
14	13		3 technical drawings
14	13		1 job order
14-9-2	12		7 technical drawings
			Set model
Tale of the Wolf, October 7, 1925 : Note: Comedy in 3 acts by Ferenc Molnar, produced by Charles Frohman Inc., directed by Frank Reicher at the Empire Theater with Phyllis Povah, Roland Young and Wallace Eddinger. 13 performances.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B8	1		--Act I: Cabaret interior, 26x31 (17x25) cm.
B8	2		--Act II: Room, Kelemen House, 22x33 (17x11) cm.
14	14		9 sketches & notes
14-9-2	13		11 technical drawings
			Set model
Antonia, October 20, 1925 : Note: Written by Melchior Lengyel, adapted by Arthur Richman, directed by George Cukor, produced by Charles Frohman, Inc. with Marjorie Rambeau at the Empire Theater. 55 performances.
14-9-2	14		12 technical drawings
14	15		2 sketches of details
14	15		2 photographs of set drawings
14	15		Program
Song of the Flame, December 30, 1925 : Note: Romantic opera in prologue, two acts and epilogue, book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Herbert Stothart and George Gershwin, costumes by Mark Mooring, choreographed by Jack Haskell, produced by Arthur Hammerstein, directed by Frank Reicher at the Forty-fourth Street Theater with Tessa Kosta as Aniuta and Guy Robertson as Volodya. 224 performances.
14-9-2	15		33 technical drawings
14	16		I.5: Elevation
14	16		2 programs
			Set model
Duchess of Elba, 1925-1926 : Note: Written by Rudolph Lothar.
			3 watercolor drawings by Gretl Urban, sig.:
14	17		--Act I: Store scene, 19x29 (10x20) cm.
14	17		--Act II: Sitting Room, 18x29 (10x18) cm.
14	17		--Act III: Bedroom, 19x29 (12x25) cm.
14-9-2	16		6 technical drawings
14	17		2 set sketches
14	17		1 sketch of Napoleon
14	17		1 wallpaper sample
			Set model
Wild Rose (Hawthorne of the USA), October 20, 1926 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Rudolf Friml, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, costumes by Mark Mooring, directed by William J. Wilson, produced by Arthur Hammerstein at the Martin Beck Theater with Joseph Santley, Desiree Ellinger and William Collier. 61 performances.
			8 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B8	3		--ActI.1: Casino, not used, 27x33 (12x18) cm.
B8	4		--Act I.2:Inn Front, 25x31 (12x19) cm.
B8	5		--Act I.3: Tavern, 26x31 (12x18) cm.
B8	6		--Act I.4: Garden Wall, 26x31 (13x18) cm.
B8	7		--Act II.1:King's Dressing Room, 26x31 (12x20) cm.
B8	8		--Act II.2: Castle yard, 26x31 (12x18) cm.
B8	9		--Act II.3: Tower, 26x31 (12x18) cm.
B8	10		--Act II.4: Border drop, 26x31 (13x18) cm., signed by Gretl
14	18		Sketches and notes, 6 p.
14-9-2	17		28 technical drawings
14	18		4 detail sketches of throne room
14	18		Letter from construction co.
			Set models
Yours Truly (Lotus Flower), January 25, 1927 : Note: Musical play in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Clyde North and Anne Caldwell, music by Raymond Hubbell, choreographed by Ralph Reader, produced by Gene Buck, directed by Paul Dickey at the Shubert Theater with Leon Errol, Marion Harris, Ina Williams and Irene Dunne. 129 performances. Restaged at the Century Theater for 16 performances March 12, 1928.
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B8	11		--Green curtain, 26x31 (14x20) cm.
B8	12		--I: Mission Square, 26x31 (15x19) cm.
B9	2		--II.1: Garden, 25x31 (14x22) cm.
B8	13		--II.3 Mission interior, 26x31 (13x19) cm.
B9	1		--II.5: Cabaret, 24x28 (13x19) cm.
14	19		2 set sketches
14-9-3	1		18 technical drawings
14	19		16 photographs of set drawings and set
14	19		Program
Golden Dawn, November 30, 1927. : Note: Musical drama in 2 acts by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein, II, music by Emmerich Kalman and Herbert Stothart, choreographed by Dave Bennett, costumes by Mark Mooring, directed by Reginald Hammerstein, produced by Arthur Hammerstein at Hammerstein Theater with Louise Hunter, Robert Chisholm, Paul Gregory and Archie Leach (Cary Grant). 184 performances.
15	1		Sketches & notes, 12 p.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
A1	21		--Straw Curtain, 22x22 cm.
B9	3		--Act I.4: Magic Tree, 26x32 (13x19) cm.
B9	4		--Act II.4: Mission, Finale A, 26x31 (13x20) cm.
14-9-3	2 & 3		31 technical drawings
15	1		9 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Big Parade, MGM, 1925 : Note: Art direction by James Basevi and Cedric Gibbons. In 1928 plans were made to make a musical for which Urban was to design the set.
27	19 & 20		83 photographs of scenes and publicity stills
Treasure Girl, November 8, 1928 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin, directed by Bertram Harrison, choreographed by Bobby Connolly, produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley at the Alvin Theater with Gertrude Lawrence, Walter Catlett, Clifton Webb and Mary Hay. 68 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B9	5		--Curtain, 28x38 cm.
15	2		9 sketches & notes
14-9-3	4		19 technical drawings
15	2		9 photographs of sets
			Set model
Polly, January 8, 1929 : Note: Musical in 2 acts by Guy Bolton and George Middleton of the 1917 comedy Polly with a Past, music and lyrics by Herbert Stothart, Philip Charig and Irving Caesar, directed by John Harwood, choreographed by Jack Haskell, produced by Arthur Hammerstein at the Lyric Theater with June, Charles Esdale and Fred Allen. 15 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
15	3		--Western Union Office
14-9-3	5		7 technical drawings
			Set model
Sons O' Guns (Tin Hats), November 26, 1929 : Note: Musical comedy by Fred Thompson and Jack Donahue, music and lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom, Benny Davis and J. Fred Coots, choreographed by Bobby Connolly and Albertina Rasch, costumes by Charles Le Maire, directed by Bobby Connolly, produced by Connolly and Swanstrom at the Imperial Theater with Jack Donahue, William Frawley and Lily Damita. 295 performances
15	4		1 reference photo
15	4		20 sketches & notes
14-9-3	6		52 technical Drawings
15	4		19 photographs of sets
			Set model
Ripples, February 11, 1930 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts by William Anthony McGuire, music by Oscar Levant and Albert Sirmay, lyrics by Irving Caesar and Graham John, costumes by Charles LeMaire choreographed by William Holbrook, directed by William Anthony McGuire, produced by Charles Dillingham at the New Amsterdam with Fred Stone, Dorothy Stone, Paula Stone, Charles Collins, and Eddie Foy, Jr. 55 performances.
15	5		Scene IV set notes, 21 p.
14-9-3	7		44 technical drawings
15	5		4 detail drawings
15	5		4 photographs of sets
			Set models
Flying High, March 3, 1930 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, book and lyrics by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and John McGowan, music by DeSylva, Brown and Ray Henderson, costumes by Charles LeMaire, choreographed by Bobby Connolly, directed by Edward Clark Lilley, produced by George White at the Apollo Theater with Bert Lahr, Kate Smith, Grace Brinkley and Oscar Shaw. 357 performances.
15	6		1 set list
15	6		2 drawings-pencil
14-9-3	8		47 technical drawings
15	6		13 photographs of sets
15	6		1 program
15	6		3 exhibit notes
			Set models
Princess Charming, October 13, 1930 : Note: Romantic opera in 2 acts adapted by Jack Donahue from the original by Franz Martos, Arthur Wimperis and Laurie Wylie, music by Albert Sirmay and Arthur Swartz, lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom, choreographed by Albertina Rasch and Bobby Connolly, costumes by Charles LeMaire, directed by Edward Clark, produced by Bobby Connolly and Arthur Swanstrom at the Imperial Theater with Victor Moore, Evelyn Herbert, George Grossmith and Robert Halliday. 56 performances
14-9-3	9		31 technical drawings
15	7		2 detail drawings
15	7		7 photographs of set models
15	7		1 program
			Set models
George White's Scandals, September 14, 1931 : Note: Revue in 2 acts, sketches by George White, Lew Brown and Irving Caesar; music by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, costumes by Charles LeMaire, produced and directed by George White at the Apollo Theater with Edward Everett Marshall, Rudy Vallee, Ray Bolger, Ethel Merman, Alice Faye and Ethel Barrymore Colt. 202 performances.
15	8		Set notes, 6 p.
15	8		Watercolor drawing of clouds, 16x21 (9x13) cm.
15	8		11 technical drawings
14-9-3	10 & 11		68 technical drawings
			Set models
The Good Fairy, November 24, 1931 : Note: Comedy in 3 acts by Ferenc Molnar, English text by Jane Hinton, music by Alexander Haas, staged and produced by Gilbert Miller at the Henry Miller Theater with Helen Hayes, Paul McGrath and Walter Connolly. 151 performances. Revived with a different cast November 17, 1932 for 72 performances.
15	9		1 property plot, 4p.
14-9-3	12		1 rough set sketch
14-9-3	12		7 technical drawings
15	9		1 ad
15	9		1 program
			Set model
Mad Hopes, May, 1932 : Note: Pre-Broadway tryout of Romney Brent play produced by Curran and Belasco at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles with Billie Burke, Peg Entwhistle and Humphrey Bogart.
15	10
14-9-3	13		2 ground plans
Music in the Air, November 8, 1932 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern, costumes by John Harkrider, directed by Hammerstein and Kern, produced by Peggy Fears at the Alvin Theater with Al Shean, Walter Slezak and Katherine Carrington. 144 performances, return performance at the Forty Fourth Street Theater, 196 performances.
15	11		8 research photographs
15	11		13 sketches & notes
			2 drawings, watercolor and/or pencil :
B9	6		--Curtain, 25x33 (16x28) cm.
B9	7		--1.4: Weber's Munich office, 25x33 (13x20) cm.
B9	7A		--Bedroom with table, 27x40 (14x20)
B9	7B		--II.4: dressing room, 29x39 (12x20) cm.
14-9-3	14		46 plans
The Light, 1932-1933. : Note: Ottis Lucas had written this pageant to be produced at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. It was never produced but Urban won a prize for his set model at the 48th Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York.
D3	10		2 technical drawings, 47x62 cm.
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
D3	10		--Rocks, 42x58 (42x58) cm.
C3	4-7		--4 Rocks, 39x47 (24x32) cm.
B9	8 & 9		--2 cyclorama, 31x42 (40x42) cm.
15	12		Script and letters
Musician's Emergency Fund, February 14, 1933 : Note: Urban designed the setting for a concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Walter Damrosch in Madison Square Garden for the benefit of unemployed musicians in New York.
15	13		4 photographs
Melody, February 14, 1933 : Note: Operetta composed by Sigmund Romberg, book by Edward Childs Carpenter, lyrics by Irving Caesar, choreographed by Bobby Connolly, costumes by Charles LeMaire, produced and directed by George White at the Casino Theater with Jeanne Aubert and Everett Marshall, Walter Woolf, Evelyn Herbert and Hal Skelly. 80 performances.
15	14		Set sketches, 3 p.
3.4: Ziegfeld Productions, 1915-1932 Note: This subseries documents Joseph Urban's designs for the producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld never staged a show since their collaboration began in 1915 without some input from Joseph Urban. He designed all the subsequent Ziegfeld Follies and the Ziegfeld Frolics as well as the hit book shows such as Sally (1921), Show Boat (1927) and Whoopee (1928). The subseries contains drawings, research material, technical drawings, photographs of sets and some programs. There are comparatively few watercolor renderings probably because they were given away as gifts by Urban. The productions are arranged in chronological order listed by title, opening date and production information. Production information was pulled from the sources cited in the Theater subseries and from The Ziegfeld Touch cited in the biography.
New Amsterdam Roof Garden, 1915, 1917, 1921 :
B9	10		Midnight Frolic, August 23, 1915        1 Photograph of roof garden
B9	11		Drawing, watercolor and pencil: --Curtain, 24x36 (19x27) cm.
Midnight Frolic, 1917 :
16	1		Program, 11/26/17
Nine O'clock Frolic, February 8, 1921 :
			[No material listed]
Midnight Frolic, November 17, 1921 :
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B9	12		--Mountain Terrace, 26x32 (19x19) cm., sig.
16	1		--set piece for horse race, 21x15 (7x7) cm
16	1		19 sketches & notes
14-9-4	1		7 technical drawings
16	1		3 photographs of set drawings
14-9-4	1		Ad mockup
Ziegfeld Follies, June 21, 1915 : Note: Revue in 2 acts, lines and lyrics by Channing Pollock, Rennold Wolf and Gene Buck, music by Louis Hirsch and David Stamper, costumes by Lucile, choreographed by Julian Mitchell, staged by Mitchell and Leon Errol at the New Amsterdam Theater with Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Justine Johnstone, Kay Laurell, Olive Thomas, Mae Murray, W. C. Fields, Bert Williams, Bernard Granville, George White, Ina Claire, Lucille Cavanaugh and Leon Errol. 104 performances.
16	2		Notes and letters, San Francisco Expo, 8 p.
16	2		6 photographs, San Francisco Expo. 8 p.
14-9-4	2		2 photographs, San Francisco Expo
16	2		Research on submarines, 6 p.
B9	13		3 technical drawings
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B9	14		--House entrance, not used, 24x35 (20x33) cm
B9	15		--Flower curtain, 24x35 (20x33) cm.
B10	1		--Zeppelin, 20x33 cm.
B10	2		--Map for Frisco, 24x34 (20x32) cm.
16	2		8 technical drawings
16	2		24 photographs of set drawings
Ziegfeld Follies, June 16, 1916 : Note: Revue in 2 acts, book and lyrics by George V. Hobart and Gene Buck, music by Louis Hirsch, Jerome Kern and Dave Stamper, costumes by Lucile et al., staged and choreographed by Ned Wayburn at the New Amsterdam Theater with Bernard Granville, Ina Claire, Justine Johnstone, Bert Williams, Allyn King, Marion Davies, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, W. C. Fields, Fannie Brice and Will Rogers. 112 performances.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B10	3		--Globe curtain, 22x31 (18x28) cm.
B10	4		--Opening scene, 24x35 (21x32) cm.
16	3		1 ground plan, island
D3	11		11 technical drawings
16	3		15 photographs of set drawings
Century Girl, November 6, 1916 : Note: Music by Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin, produced by Charles Dillingham at the Century Theater with Marie Dressler, Hazel Lewis, Hazel Dawn, Irving Fisher, Leon Errol, Elsie Janis, Gus Van, Joe Schenk, Vera Maxwell, Frank Tinney and Lilyan Tashman. 200 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B10	5		--Bubbles, 24x45 (19x30) cm.
B10	6		--Grand Central Station, 23x28 (20.5x25) cm., sig.
14-9-4	3		6 technical drawings
16	4		20 photographs of set drawings
Century Roof Garden, January 18, 1917 : Note: The producers, Ziegfeld and Dillingham, named the roof garden the Cocoanut Grove and staged a Midnight Revue entitled Dance and Grow Thin, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and Blanche Merrill, staging by Leon Errol and Gertrude Hoffman, with Will Richie, Rita Boland, Hattie Burks, Leon Errol, Irving Fisher, Dolly Hackett, and Van and Schenck.
16	5		Silhouette, unused sketch
16	5		17 p. sketches and notes
14-9-4	4		14 technical drawings
Ziegfeld Follies 1917, June 12, 1917 : Note: Revue in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Gene Buck and George V. Hobart, music by Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper and Victor Herbert, costumes by Lucile et al., staged and choreographed by Ned Wayburn at the New Amsterdam Theater, with Walter Catlett, Lilyan Tashman, W. C. Fields, Bert Williams, the Fairbanks Twins, Eddie Cantor, Fannie Brice, Will Rogers, Allyn King, Delores and Peggy Hopkins. 111 performances.
16	6		1 contract letter, 2/7/17
16	6		1 set list
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
16	6		--Modern Interior, 20x20 (14x14) cm.
B10	7		--Eagle, 21x26 cm.
D3	12		12 technical drawings
16	6		20 photographs of set drawings
Miss 1917, November 5, 1917 : Note: Revue in 2 acts, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, music by Victor Herbert, staged by Ned Wayburn, produced by Charles Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld at the Century Theater with Lew Fields, Andrew Tombs, Elizabeth Brice, Marion Davies, Charles King, Bessie McCoy Davis, Vivienne Segal, Vera Maxwell, Van & Schenk, Irene Castle, Bert Savoy, Joe Brennan, Lilyan Tashman, Dolores, George White and Ann Pennington and others. 48 performances.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B10	8		---Garden of Eden, 24x29 (22x27) cm.
B10	9		--Swan curtain, 22x22 (19x19) cm.
14-9-4	5		4 technical drawings
16	7		24 photographs of set drawings
16	7		1 program
Ziegfeld Follies 1918, June 18, 1918 : Note: Revue in two acts, lines and lyrics by Rennold Wolf and Gene Buck, music by Louis A. Hirsch and Dave Stamper, interpolations by Irving Berlin and Victor Jacobi, costumes by Lucile et al., staged by Ned Wayburn at the New Amsterdam Theater with Eddie Cantor, Frank Carter, Gus Minton, Marilyn Miller, Will Rogers, Allyn King, Dolores, Ann Pennington, Kay Laurell, the Fairbanks Twins, W. C. Fields, and Lillian Lorraine. 151 performances.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B10	10		--Miniature (spinet scene), 22x33 (13.5x24) cm.
B10	11		--Totem pole, not used, 23x21 (16x18) cm.
B10	12		--Trench, 23x33 (20x31) cm.
D4	1		8 technical drawings
16	8		18 photographs of set drawings
16	8		Program, 7/29/18 and program pages
By Pigeon Post, November 25, 1918 : Note: Play in three acts by Austin Page at the Cohan Theater with Jerome Patrick, Frank Kemble Cooper, John Sainpolis, Phoebe Foster and Peggy O'Neil. 24 performances.
16	9		4 p. of program
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, June 16, 1919 : Note: Written by Irving Berlin, Gene Buck, Rennold Wolf and Dave Stamper, ballet by Victor Herbert, costumes by Lucile et al., directed by Ned Wayburn at the New Amsterdam Theater with Eddie Cantor, Johnny and Ray Dooley, Eddie Dowling, Phil Dwyer, the Fairbanks Twins, Mary Hay, George LeMaire, Marilyn Miller, John Steele, Van and Schenck, Hazel Washburn and Bert Williams. 171 performances
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B11	1		--Twilight curtain, 23x33 (22x18) cm., sig.
16	10		18 p. sketches and notes
D4	2		13 technical drawings
16	10		42 photographs of set drawings
16	10		Program, 2 p.
Caesar's Wife, November 24, 1919 : Note: Drama in 3 acts by W. Somerset Maugham, directed by B. Iden Payne, starring Billie Burke, Norman Trevor, and Ernest Glendenning at the Liberty Theater. 81 performances.
16	11		12 sketches and notes
16	11		2 photographs of set drawings
14-9-4	6		5 technical drawings
16	11		1 check stub showing payment for scenery
Ziegfeld Follies of 1920, June 22, 1920 : Note: Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, Dave Stamper, Gene Buck, Joseph McCarthy, Harry Tierney and Victor Herbert, costumes by Lucile et al., directed by Edward Royce at the New Amsterdam Theater with Ray Dooley, Fannie Brice, W. C. Fields, Charles Winninger, Bernard Granville, John Steel, Mary Eaton, Jack Donahue, Van and Schenck and Moran and Mack. 123 performances.
16	12		5 sketches and notes
D4	3		22 technical drawings
16	12		2 photographs of set drawing
16	12		Program, 5 p.
James Theater, Columbus, Ohio, 1920-1921 :
16	12		2 detail sketches
14-9-4	7		4 technical drawings
Sally, December 21, 1920 : Note: Musical comedy in three acts, book by Guy Bolton, lyrics by Clifford Grey, music by Jerome Kern and Victor Herbert, directed and choreographed by Edward Royce at the New Amsterdam Theater with Marilyn Miller, Leon Errol, Mary Hay, Walter Catlett, and Dolores. 570 performances.
D4	4		5 technical drawings
17	1		2 sketches
17	1		1 photograph of curtain
Ziegfeld Follies of 1921, June 21, 1921 : Note: Lines and lyrics by Channing Pollock, Gene Buck, Willard Mack, Ralph Spence and Bud De Silva, music by Victor Herbert, Rudolf Friml and Dave Stamper, costumes by James Reynolds, directed by Edward Royce at the Globe Theater with Raymond Hitchcock, Fannie Brice, Van and Schenk, Ray Dooley, Florence O'Denishawn, Charles O'Donnell, W. C. Fields, Mary Eaton and Mitti and Tillio. 119 performances.
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B11	2		--Venetian, 26x31 (18x21) cm., sig.
B11	3		--Paris-Bridge over Seine, 26x28 (18x21) cm.
B11	4		--Temple of Colors, 26x31 (20x23) cm., sig.
B11	5		--Princess, Queen of the Night, 21x31 (10x22) cm., sig.
B11	5A		--Rose Bower, 25x31 (11x12) cm.
D4	5		38 technical drawings
17	2		2 p. notes and plan
17	2		21 photographs of set drawings
Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, June 5, 1922 : Note: Music by Victor Herbert, Louis A. Hirsch and Dave Stamper, book and lyrics by Ring Lardner, Gene Buck and Ralph Spence, sets by Urban, James Reynolds and Herman Rosse, costumes by James Reynolds, Charles LeMaire, et al., directed and choreographed by Ned Wayburn at the New Amsterdam Theater, with Will Rogers, Michael Fokine, Gallagher and Shean, Lulu McConnell, Andrew Tombes, Evelyn Law, Gilda Gray, Mary Eaton and Jessie Reed. 541 performances.
17	3		4 sketches
D4	6		6 technical drawings
17	3		Program, June 25, 1923
Rose Briar, December 25, 1922 : Note: Comedy in 3 acts by Booth Tarkington with Billie Burke, Frank Conroy, Allan Dinehart, Julia Hoyt and Florence O'Denishawn at the Empire Theater. 89 performances. 17
14-9-4	8		4 technical drawings
Ziegfeld Follies of 1923, October 20 : Note: Musical revue in 2 acts, lyrics by Gene Buck, music by Victor Herbert, Rudolph Friml and Dave Stamper, costumes by Ben-Ali Haggin, Tappé, Alice O'Neill, Erté, and James Reynolds, et al., directed and choreographed by Ned Wayburn with Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Bert and Betty Wheeler, Lina Basquette, Ann Pennington, Paul Whiteman Orchestra and Dave Stamper at the New Amsterdam Theater. 333 performances
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B11	6		--Spanish exterior, 26x31 (18x26) cm.
17	5		American Review of Reviews, p. 405-6
17	5		Lyrics, 6 p.
17	5		Curtain samples
17	6		2 letters, Urban Studio
17	5 & 6		65 sketches & notes
A1	16-20		13 technical drawings
14-9-4	9 & 10		47 technical drawings
			Set Models
Kid Boots, December 31, 1923 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach, music by Harry Tierney, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, directed by Edward Royce at the Earl Carroll Theater with Eddie Cantor, Mary Eaton and Jobyna Howland. 479 performances.
17	7		3 sketches
			1 drawing-watercolor and pencil :
17	7		--trees, 27x19 cm.
14-9-4	11		Ground plan
Ziegfeld Follies of 1924, June 24, 1924 : Note: Musical revue with lyrics by Gene Buck and Joseph J. McCarthy, music by Victor Herbert, Raymond Hubbell, Dave Stamper, Harry Tierney and Dr. Albert Szirmai, dialog by William Anthony McGuire and Will Rogers, costumes by James Reynolds, Charles LeMaire, et al., sets by Joseph Urban and Ludwig Kainer, staged by Julian Mitchell at the New Amsterdam Theater with Will Rogers, Vivienne Segal, Ann Pennington, Lina Basquette, Evelyn Law, Mae Daw and the Tiller Girls. c. 401 performances.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B11	7		--2 Entrance curtains, pheasants, 16x31 (18x16) cm.
17	8		5 sketches
14-9-4	12		21 technical drawings
Annie Dear, November 4, 1924 : Note: Musical comedy in 3 acts from the original Good Gracious, Annabelle (1916), book, music and lyrics by Clare Kummer, interpolations by Sigmund Romberg and Harry Tierney, staged by Edward Royce at the Times Square Theater, with Billie Burke, Marion Green and Ernest Truex. 103 performances.
17	9		Rough sketch of hotel scene, watercolor
			8 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B11	8		--Curtain A, 26x31 cm.
B11	9		--Curtain B, not used, 27x34 cm.
B11	10		--Curtain, bouquet, not used, 26x31 cm.
17	9		--Hotel Lobby, rough drawing, 15x19 cm.
B12	1		--Hotel lobby, 27x35 cm.
B12	2		--Hotel lobby drop, 26x31 cm.
B12	3		--Kitchen scene, 27x35 cm.
B12	4		--Kitchen Garden, 27x35 cm.
B12	5		--Park scene, garden, night, 26x31 cm.
17	9		Detail for Rainbow Garden and curtain
14-9-4	13		12 technical drawings
			Set model
Louie the 14th, March 3, 1925 : Note: Musical play from the German, adaptation and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, music by Sigmund Romberg, sets in collaboration with Gretl Urban and Karl Koeck, directed by Edward Royce with Leon Errol, Ethel Shutta, Doris Patson, and Henry Fender at the Cosmopolitan Theater. 79 performances.
			6 drawings-watercolor and pencil :
B31	5		--Act I: Market place, 27x32 (14x23) cm.
B12	6		--Road to Inn, not used, 27x31 (14x23) cm.
B12	7		--Mountain Inn, sig. Karl Koeck, 24x31 (17x23) cm.
B31	6		--Mountain Inn (not used), 27x32 (17x24) cm.
17	10		--Act II.1: Ballroom detail, 18x36 (14x33) cm.
B12	8		--Act II.2: Garden Scene, sig. Gretl Urban, 27x32 (14x23) cm.
17	10		Sketches and notes, 11 p.
B12	9		3 technical drawings
14-9-4	14		28 technical drawings
Palm Beach Girl, January 14, 1926 : Note: Opened as Ziegfeld's Palm Beach Nights, book by Gene Buck and Irving Caesar, music by Rudolph Friml, staged by Ned Wayburn at the Club de Montmartre in Palm Beach with Harry Fender, Mort Downey, Ray Dooley, Claire Luce, Polly Walker, and Paulette Goddard.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B12	10		--Curtain, 26x31 (13x19) cm.
B12	11		--Snow Bound, not used, 27x34 (12x21) cm.
17	11		--Palm Beach Night, 13x19 (9x12) cm.
17	11		14 sketches and notes
D4	7		20 technical drawings
D4	7		Montmartre Theater proscenium drawing, 37x44 cm.
17	11		2 photographs of proscenium
No Foolin', June 24, 1926 : Note: Revue in two acts, a revised version of Ziegfeld's Palm Beach Girl, music by Rudolf Friml, written by Gene Buck, Irving Caesar, Ballard MacDonald, J. P. McEvoy and James Hanley, tableaux by Ben Ali Haggin, costumes by John Harkrider, sets by Urban and John Wenger, dances by John Boyle, staged by Walter Wilson and Ed Royce at the Globe Theater with James Barton, Ray Dooley, Polly Walker, Peggy Fears, Paulette Goddard, and Claire Luce. This was essentially the Follies for 1926 but went by several titles including Ziegfeld's American Revue due to a legal dispute with the Erlanger estate over the use of the name. 108 performances.
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil:
B13	1		--Portal & Opening, 32x26 cm.
B13	2		--Curtain, 26x31 cm.
B13	3		--Curtain, not used, 26x32 cm.
B13	4		--Cabaret, 26x31 cm.
B13	5		--Oriental, 25x31 cm.
B13	6		--Skyscraper, 26x31 cm.
B13	7		--Pink Gauze, 23x28 cm.
			See also Palm Beach Girl.
Betsy, December 28, 1926. : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, book by Irving Caesar & David Freedman, choreographed by Sammy Lee, directed by William Anthony McGuire at the New Amsterdam Theater, with Belle Baker. 39 performances.
			1 drawing, watercolor & pencil :
B31	7		--Garden, 26x31 (18x20) cm.
14-9-4	15		3 technical drawings
17	13		2 detail rough sketches
17	13		1 photograph of set drawing
			Set model
Rio Rita, February 2, 1927 : Note: Musical comedy in two acts, book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, music and lyrics by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy, choreographed by Albertina Rasch and Sammy Lee, costumes by John Harkrider, directed by John Harwood at the Ziegfeld Theatre with J. Harold Murray, Ethelind Terry, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey and the Albertina Rasch Girls. 494 performances.
17	14		10 work sketches
A7	A		Sketch of ship deck
			9 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B13	8		--Curtain B, not used, 26x32 (18x20) cm.
B13	9		--Cactus curtain C, not used, 32x42 (23x33) cm.
B13	10		--Curtain D, not used, 26x31 (19x20) cm.
B14	1		--Spanish Shawl , 26x32 (19x19) cm.
B14	2		--I.1: Inn A, 25x31 (18x20) cm.
B14	3		--Cellar, 26x31 (17x17) cm.
B14	4		--Patio, 32x34 (21x24) cm.
B14	5		--Boat scene, 26x31 (18x21) cm.
B14	6		--Colonial House, 26x31 (18x21) cm.
14-9-4	16		21 technical drawings
17	14		12 photographs of sets
			Set model
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927, August 16, 1927 : Note: Musical revue in 2 acts, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, sketches by Harold Atteridge and Eddie Cantor, costumes by John Harkrider, choreographed by Sammy Lee and Albertina Rasch, produced by Abe Erlanger and Florenz Ziegfeld, directed by Ziegfeld and Zeke Colvan at the New Amsterdam Theater with Eddie Cantor, Andrew Tombes, Claire Luce, Ruth Etting and the Albertina Rasch Girls. 167 performances.
C4	1		Castles in the clouds, watercolor, 34x43 cm.
17	15		13 notes and technical drawings
14-9-4	17		40 technical drawings
17	15		9 photographs of sets
			Set model
Show Boat, December 27, 1927 : Note: Musical adapted from Edna Ferber's novel, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Jerome Kern, costumes by John Harkrider, choreographed by Sammy Lee, directed by Zeke Cohan at the Ziegfeld Theatre with Charles Winninger, Edna May Oliver, Howard Marsh, Norma Terriss, Helen Morgan, Aunt Jemima (Tess Gardell) and Jules Bledsoe. 572 performances.
D4	8		18 prints of Chicago World's Fair of 1893.
			15 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
C4	A		--Curtain, 29x46 cm.
B14	7		--Curtain, not used, 26x32 (18x27) cm.
B14	8		--Curtain, 22x35 (15x24) cm.
B14	9		--I.1,8: Levee B 26x32 (11x20) cm.
B14	10		--I.2: Pantry A, 26x32 (11x20) cm.
B15	1		----I.2: Pantry B, 26x32 (12x19) cm.
B15	2		--I.3: Outside cabaret, 26x32 (12x19) cm.
B15	3		--I.4: Empty Stage, 26x32 (13x19) cm.
B15	4		--I.5: Box Office, 26x32 (13x20) cm.
B15	5		--I.7: Upper Deck, 26x32 (12x19) cm.
B15	6		--II.2: Kitchen Pantry, 26x32 (14x19) cm.
B15	7		--II.5,6: Music hall, 26x32 (12x21) cm.
B15	8		--II.6: Music hall, 26x32 (12x19) cm.
B15	9		--II.5,6: Cabaret C, 27x32 (13x19) cm.
B15	10		--Doorway, 26x32 (14x20) cm.
17	16		2 detail drawings
17	16		15 photos of drawings & models
17	16		1 clipping, NY News 1966
			Set Models
Rosalie, January 10, 1928 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts, book by William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton, lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, costumes by John Harkrider, choreographed by Seymour Felix, directed by McGuire and Florenz Ziegfeld at the New Amsterdam Theater with Frank Morgan, Marilyn Miller, Oliver McLennan, Jack Donahue, Gladys Glad and Helen Forbes. 335 performances.
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B16	1		--Curtain, 18x18 cm.
B16	2		--I.1: Palace A, 26x32 (17x23) cm.
B16	3		--Palace B, not used, 32x34 (16x19) cm.
B16	4		--Sleeping Quarters, 26x31 (13x19) cm.
17	17		16 sketches
14-9-5	1		30 technical drawings
17	17		8 photographs of sets and models
17	17		1 program
			Set models
The Three Musketeers, March 13, 1928 : Note: Musical version in 2 acts of novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by William Anthony McGuire, music by Rudolph Friml, lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey, choreographed by Albertina Rasch, costumes by John Harkrider, directed by McGuire and Richard Boleslavsky at the Lyric Theater with Vivienne Segal and Dennis King. 318 performances.
18	1		37 sketches & notes
14-9-5	2		34 technical drawings
18	1		2 cloth samples
18	1		8 photographs of sets & set models
			Set model
Whoopee, December 4, 1928 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts and 12 scenes by William Anthony McGuire, based on The Nervous Wreck by Owen Davis, music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Gus Kahn, choreographed by Seymour Felix and Tamara Geva, costumes by John Harkrider, directed by McGuire at the New Amsterdam Theater with Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gladys Glad, Ethel Shutta, Jack Rutherford and Frances Upton. 379 performances.
18	2		First Act Lay-Out
A7	1		Photograph from The Nervous Wreck
18	2		2 photographs from The Nervous Wreck
18	2		6 rough set sketches
14-9-5	3		22 technical drawings
18	2		17 photographs of set drawings
18	2		Program
			Set models
Show Girl, July 2, 1929 : Note: Musical comedy revue by William Anthony McGuire based on the novel by J. P. McEvoy, music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn, costumes by John Harkrider, choreographed by Bobby Connolly and Albertina Rasch, directed by Zeke Colvan at the Ziegfeld Theater with Ruby Keeler, Jimmie Durante, Lou Clayton, Eddie Jackson, Eddie Foy, Jr. and Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra. 111 performances.
18	3		Drawing of horse, classical style, 20x25 cm.
18	3		29 sketches & notes
14-9-5	4 & 5		81 technical drawings
18	3		6 photos of set drawings
18	3		1 clipping
18	3		1 program
			Set models
Simple Simon, February 18, 1930 : Note: Musical comedy by Ed Wynn and Guy Bolton, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, dances by Seymour Felix, directed by Zeke Colvan at the Ziegfeld Theatre with Ed Wynn, Ruth Etting and Harriet Hoctor. 101 performances.
18	4		10 detail drawings
14-9-5	6		47 technical drawings
Smiles, November 18, 1930 : Note: A musical comedy in 2 acts by William Anthony McGuire, music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Clifford Grey, Harold Adamson and Ring Lardner, choreographed by Ned Wayburn, directed by William Anthony McGuire at the Ziegfeld Theater with Paul Gregory, Fred and Adele Astaire, Larry Adler, Marilyn Miller, and Eddie Foy, Jr. 63 performances.
18	5		NY Times Magazine article
18	5		6 drawings of props
14-9-5	7		35 technical drawings
18	5		13 photographs of sets
Ziegfeld Follies of 1931, July 1, 1931 : Note: Music by Harry Revel, Ben Oakland, Dave Stamper, Dimitri Tiomkin, Noel Coward, Nora Bayes, Jimmy Monaco, Chick Endor, Walter Donaldson, and Jay Gorney, sketches by Gene Buck, Mark Hellinger, and J. P. Murray, lyrics by Gene Buck, Joseph McCarthy, Charles Farrell, Mack Gordon, J. P. Murray, Barry Trivers, E. Y. Harburg, Jack Norworth, and Noel Coward, costumes by John Harkrider, dances by Bobby Connolly and Albertina Rasch, directed by Edward C. Lilley at the Ziegfeld Theater with Buck and Bubbles, Ruth Etting, Gladys Glad, Grace Moore, Helen Morgan, Jack Pearl, Albertina Rasch Dancers, Albert Carroll, Hal Leroy, Mitzi Mayfair, and Harry Richman. 164 performances
C4	2		Bridge, watercolor, 34x42 cm.
14-9-5	8 & 9		89 technical drawings
18	6		19 technical drawings
			Set models
Hot-Cha! (Laid in Mexico), March 8, 1932 : Note: Musical comedy in 2 acts by Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Mark Hellinger and H. S. Kraft, music by Brown and Henderson, staged by Edgar McGregor, dances by Bobby Connolly, directed by Edward Lilley at the Ziegfeld Theater with Bert Lahr, Lupe Velez, Marjorie White, and Buddy Rogers. 119 performances
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
18	7		--Train
18	7		--Mexican Square, 18.5x27 (17x25) cm.
18	7		15 technical drawings
14-9-5	10 & 11		59 technical drawings
18	7		3 photographs of Lahr and Velez
			Set models
Show Boat, May 23 1932 : Note: See Show Boat, December 27, 1927. Revival at the Casino Theater with Charles Winninger, Edna May Oliver, Dennis King, Norma Terriss, Helen Morgan, Tess Gardell (Aunt Jemima) and Paul Robeson. 36 performances
18	8		1 program
3.5: Metropolitan Opera, 1917-1933 Note: Urban designed several operas a year for the Metropolitan Opera Company during the time when the financier philanthropist Otto Kahn was Chairman of the Board of Directors and Giulio Gatti-Cassazza was the manager. Urban's good friend and fellow Austrian Artur Bodanzky was a conductor, and major singers such as Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza, Giuseppe De Luca, Beniamino Giglio, Ezio Pinza and Fiodr Chaliapin performed on his sets. The productions are arranged in chronological order listed by title, opening date and production information. The last year the set was used is shown in parentheses. The files contain drawings, research material, technical drawings, photographs of sets and some programs. The production information is from the Metropolitan Opera Archives and Seltsam, William H. Metropolitan Opera Annals. New York: W. W. Wilson Co., 1947.
Faust, November 17, 1917 (1951) : Note: Opera in 4 acts and 6 scenes based on the dramatic poem by Goethe, music by Charles Gounod, book by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, costumes by Joseph Urban, conducted by Pierre Monteux with Giovanni Martinelli as Faust, Geraldine Farrar as Marguerite and Leon Rothier as Mephistopheles.
			6 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B16	5		--Study, 23x34 (20x31) cm.
B16	6		--Kermesse, 23x33 (19x35) cm.
18	9		--Garden, 18x25 (13x21) cm.
B16	7		--Church, 23x36 (19x31) cm.
B16	8		--Walpurgisnacht, 22x36 (20x31) cm.
18	9		1 ground plan, quick sketch
18	9		20 photographs of set drawings.
18	9		2 programs, 1918
Saint Elizabeth (Die Legende von der Heiligen Elisabeth), January 3, 1918 : Note: First American performance of oratorio in a prologue and 4 tableaux, sung in English, music by Franz Liszt, book by Otto Roquette, translated by Constance Bache, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Richard Ordynski, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Florence Easton as St. Elizabeth, Clarence Whitehill as Ludwig and Margarete Matzenauer as Sophie.
19	1		1 libretto
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B16	9		--Prologue: Betrothal, 23x35 (19x31) cm.
B16	10		--Ascension, 24x35 (19x31) cm.
B16	11		--Woods, 24x35 (19x32) cm.
14-9-6	1		10 technical drawings
19	1		12 photographs of set drawings and models
19	1		2 programs, 1917 & 1918
Le Prophète, February 7, 1918 (1928) : Note: Opera in 4 acts and 9 scenes, book by Eugene Scribe, music by Giacomo Meyerbeer, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Richard Ordynski, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Enrico Caruso as Jean of Leyden, Margarete Matzenauer as Fidès, Claudia Muzio as Bertha and Adamo Didur as Count Oberthal.
19	2		2 librettos
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
19	2		--I.1: suburb of Dordrecht, 16x21 (14x20) cm.
19	2		--I: City Wall in Winter, 15x25 cm.
19	2		--snow, Detail 9
B17	1		--I.2: John of Leyden's inn, 22x36 (19x32) cm.
B17	2		--II.2: View of the City, 23x30 (17x21) cm., sig.
19	2		--Banquet, 19x27 (14x24) cm.
19	2		--Dungeon, 21x33 (19x31) cm.
14-9-6	2		14 technical drawings
19	2		9 photographs of costumes
19	2		18 photographs of sets
19	2		1 program, 1918-1919
			Set model
Oberon, December 18, 1918 (1921) : Note: First Metropolitan Opera performance in English of opera in 3 acts and 9 tableaux, music by Carl Maria von Weber, book by J. R. Planché, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Richard Ordynski, revised and conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Rosa Ponselle as Rezia, Giovanni Martinelli as Huon and Paul Althouse as Oberon.
A7	2 & 3		2 vocal scores, 1 inscribed by Bodanzky
19	3		Annotated playbook
19	3		15 sketches and notes
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B17	3		--Rezia's Sleeping Garden, 24x35 (20x30) cm.
B17	4		--Storm, 24x34 (20x30) cm., sig.
B17	5		--Charlemagne's Room, 23x33 (20x30) cm.
14-9-6	3		18 technical drawings
19	3		19 photographs of sets
19	3		3 programs, 1918-1920
			Set model
La Juive (The Jewess), November 22, 1919 (1936) : Note: Opera in 5 acts by Jacques Halévy, libretto by Eugene Scribe, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Rosa Ponselle as Rachel, Enrico Caruso as Eleazar and Leon Rothier as Cardinal Brogni.
19	4		2 librettos in German
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B17	6		--II.2: Passover, 22x33 (17x28) cm.
B17	7		--III: Kaiser's garden, 24x35 (19x30) cm.
B17	8		--IV: Cardinal's room, 24x36 (18x19) cm.
B17	9		--V: Burning Scene, 24x35 (17x30) cm.
14-9-6	4		12 technical drawings
19	4		10 photographs of sets
			Set model
Barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville), November 27, 1919 (1951) : Note: Opera in 3 acts, music by Gioachino Rossini, book by Cesare Sterbini, conducted by Gennaro Papi with Giuseppe DeLuca as Figaro, Mabel Garrison as Rosina, Charles Hackett as Almaviva, Jose Mardones as Don Basilio and Pompilio Malatesta as Dr. Bartolo.
19	5		1 libretto
			3 Drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B17	10		--Act I: Square in Seville, 21x35 cm.
B17	11		--Act II & III: Drawing Room, not used, 22x33 cm.
B17	12		--Act II & III: Drawing Room, 23x37 cm.
19	5		1 photograph of set drawing
19	5		3 programs, 1945 - 1948
Parsifal, February 19, 1920 (1955) : Note: Opera in 3 acts and 6 scenes by Richard Wagner, English version by Henry Edward Krehbiel, costumes by Urban, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Orville Harrold as Parsifal and Margarete Matzenauer as Kundry.
19	6		1 libretto
B18	1		2 articles, German, 3 p.
			8 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
C4	3		--Curtain, Titurel's vision
C4	4		--I.1: Holy Woods
C4	5		--II.1: Klingsor's tower
B18	2		--II.2: Klingsor's garden D
D5	1		--II.2: Klingsor's garden, unused
C5	1		--II.2: Klingsor's garden B
B18	3		--II.2: Klingsor's garden
B18	4		--II.2: Klingsor's garden G
B31	8		--II.2: Klingsor's garden
19	6		2 slides from. Austrian National Library
14-9-6	5		13 technical drawings
19	6		17 photos of set drawings and set
19	6		1 article, 1954, 6 p.
Eugene Onegin, March 24, 1920 (1921) : Note: The first New York performance, sung in Italian, of lyric opera in 3 acts adapted from the poem by Alexander Pushkin, music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, directed by Richard Ordynski, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Giuseppe DeLuca as Onegin, Claudia Muzio as Tatiana and Giovanni Martinelli as Lenski.
19	7		Libretto
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
D5	2		--Act I: Larina's garden, 43x25 (20.5x37) cm.
B18	5		--Act 1.3: garden B, 26x36 (16x26) cm.
B18	6		--Act II: Larina's ballroom, 26x36 (17x26) cm.
B18	7		--Act II.2: Duel, 25x35 (16x26) cm.
14-9-6	6		3 technical drawings
19	7		10 photographs of set drawings
19	7		Program, April 1, 1920
Tristan und Isolde, November 20, 1920 (1958) : Note: Performed in English, by Richard Wagner, conducted by Artur Bodanzky, with Johannes Sembach as Tristan, Margarete Matzenauer as Isolde, and Clarence Whitehill as Kurvenal.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B18	8		--II: King Mark's Castle, 24x33 (20x30) cm.
B18	9		--III: Tristan's Courtyard, 24x32 (20x30) cm.
19	8		Rough sketch
14-9-6	7		9 technical drawings
19	8		Photograph of set drawing
19	8		5 programs 1935-55
			Set models
Don Carlos, December 23, 1920 (1923) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera based on tragedy by Schiller, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Mery and Camille du Locle, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Gennaro Papi with Giovanni Martinelli as Don Carlos, Giuseppe DeLuca as Rodrigo, Adamo Didur as Phillip, and Rosa Ponselle as Elizabeth.
			7 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B18	10		--I: Wood scene, 23x31 cm.
B18	11		--II: Church, 26x38 cm.
B18	12		--III.1: Ballet scene, 26x38 cm.
B18	13		--Grotto scene, 22x31 cm.
B19	1		--III.2: City Square, 26x38 cm.
B19	2		--IV.1: King's cabinet, Phillip's room, 23x31 cm.
B19	3		--IV.2: Prison scene, 23x30 cm.
14-9-6	8		8 technical drawings
20	1		17 photographs of set drawings
			Set model, Convent exterior
Lohengrin, February 2, 1921 (1950) : Note: Opera in 3 acts and 4 scenes by Richard Wagner, performed in English, costumes by Joseph and Gretl Urban, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Johannes Sembach as Lohengrin and Florence Easton as Elsa.
20	2		1 libretto, German
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
20	2		--Act I: River bank, 17x28 (13x23) cm., sig.
20	2		--Act II: Courtyard, 18x28 (13x23) cm., sig.
20	2		--2 of Act III.1: Bedroom
14-9-6	9		6 technical drawings
20	2		8 photographs of sets
20	2		5 programs, 1937-1950
			Set models
La Traviata, November 14, 1921 (1935) : Note: Opera in 4 acts, music by Giuseppe Verdi, book by F. M. Piave, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Amelita Galli-Curci as Violetta, Beniamino Gigli as Alfredo, and Giuseppe De Luca as Germont.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B19	4		--Flora's Palace, 25x32 (15x18) cm.
20	3		3 plans & sketches
14-9-6	10		5 technical drawings
20	3		7 photographs of set drawings
20	3		Program, 4/1/32
			Set models
Ernani, December 8, 1921 (1929) : Note: Opera in 4 acts and 5 scenes, music by Giuseppe Verdi, book by F. M. Piave based on Hernani by Victor Hugo, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Gennaro Papi with Giovanni Martinelli as Ernani, Giuseppe Danise as Don Carlos and Rosa Ponselle as Elvira.
20	4		2 librettos
			7 drawings-watercolor and pencil, 16x26 (10x16) cm. :
20	4		--Act I.1: first idea, sig.
20	4		--Act I.1: Sea, stone bridge
20	4		--Act II: Elvira's Room, sig.
20	4		--Act III.1: Throne Room A,
20	4		--Act III.1: Throne Room B, sig.
20	4		--Act III.2: Tomb Scene A, sig.
20	4		--Act III.2: Tomb Scene B
14-9-6	11		9 technical drawings
20	4		6 photographs
20	4		1 program, 1922-1923
Salzburg Festival Playhouse Fund, 1921-1922 : Note: Richard Strauss, while on a US tour in the fall of 1921, enlisted the aid of Mrs. Samuel(Minnie) Untermeyer to raise money for the Salzburg Festival. Strauss, with Max Reinhardt and Hugo von Hofmannstal, had formed the Salzburg Festspielhaus Committee whose purpose was to build a theater dedicated to Mozart in war-devastated Austria.
20	5		5 letters, 10 p.
20	5		1 flyer
Le Roi d'Ys, January 5, 1922 : Note: First New York performance of opera in 3 acts and 5 scenes, music by Edouard Lalo, book by Edouard Blau, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Albert Wolff with Beniamino Gigli as Mylio, Giuseppe Danise as Karnac, Leon Rothier as the King, Rosa Ponselle as Margared and Frances Alda as Rozenn.
			8 drawings, watercolor and pencil on board :
20	6		--Act I & II, 26x16 (10x15) cm.
20	6		--Act II, 2:Grotto and set notes, 16x26 (10x14)
20	6		--Act III: Courtyard, Flood, 26x16 (10x15) cm.
20	6		--Act I: Castle, 15.5x26 (10x16) cm.
20	6		--Act II.1: Interior, 16x26 (10x16) cm
20	6		--Act II.2: Grotto, 16x26 (10x16) cm.
20	6		--III.1: Courtyard, 16x26 (10x16) cm.
20	6		--III.2: Flood, 16x26 (10x16) cm.
14-9-6	12		5 technical drawings
20	6		11 photographs of set drawings
20	6		2 programs, 1921-22
Cosi Fan Tutte, March 24, 1922 (1928) : Note: First New York performance of the opera buffa in 2 acts, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, book by Lorenzo da Ponte, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Florence Easton as Fiordiligi, Frances Peralta as Dorabella, George Meader as Ferrando, Giuseppe DeLuca as Guglielmo, Adamo Didur as Don Alfonso and Lucrezia Bori as Despina.
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B19	5		--Act I.1: Inn, 36x43 (20x29) cm.
B19	6		--Act I.2,4; II.2: Garden, 27x35 (19x26) cm.
B19	7		--Act I.3: Green Room, 27x35 (19x26) cm.
B19	8		--Act II.1: White Room, 27x35 (19x27) cm.
B19	9		--Act II.3: Tapestry Room, 27x35 (19x27) cm.
14-9-6	13		5 technical drawings
20	7		Set list
20	7		6 photographs of set drawings
20	7		2 programs, 1921-22
			Set model-Portal
Madama Butterfly, November 24, 1922 : Note: Tragic opera in 3 acts, music by Giacomo Puccini, lyrics by L. Illica & G. Giacosa from the book by John L. Long and play by David Belasco, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Florence Easton as Cio-Cio-San, Giovanni Martinelli as Pinkerton and Antonio Scotti as Sharpless.
21	1		1 libretto
			1 drawing-watercolor and pencil :
21	1		--Act II, III: Cio-Cio-San's House, 21x30 (16x24) cm.
21	1		5 technical drawings, sketchesm.
14-9-6	14		4 technical drawings
21	1		8 programs, 1945-1953
			1 set model-Act I, Border #1
Roméo et Juliette, November 25, 1922 (1947) : Note: Opera in 5 acts and 7 scenes, music by Charles Gounod, book by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Lucrezia Bori as Juliette, Beniamino Gigli as Roméo, Giuseppe DeLuca as Mercutio and Leon Rothier as Friar Laurence.
21	2		1 libretto
			6 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B19	10		--Prologue, 21x31 (15x24) cm.
B19	11		--Ballroom, 21x31 (15x24) cm.
B19	12		--Garden scene, not used, 21x31 (16x24) cm.
B19	13		--Square, 21x31 (15x24) cm.
B20	1		--Bedroom, 21x31 (15x24) cm.
B20	2		--Tomb 21x31 (15x24) cm.
21	2		Ground plans, 1 p.
14-9-6	15		8 technical drawings
21	2		2 photographs of set drawing
21	2		2 programs, 1922-23, 1926-27
			Set model
Thaïs, December 14, 1922 (1939) : Note: Opera by Jules Massenet, libretto by Louis Gallet, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Maria Jeritza as Thaïs, Orville Harrold as Nicias and Clarence Whitehill as Athanael.
21	3		3 sketches & notes
14-9-6	16		8 technical drawings
			Set model
Concert Sets, 1922, 1929:
21	4		Detail, measurements
14-9-6	17		6 technical drawings, 58x77 cm.
L'Africaine, March 21, 1923 (1934) : Note: Opera in four acts and 5 scenes, music by Giacomo Meyerbeer, book by Eugene Scribe, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Beniamino Gigli as Vasco Da Gama, Rosa Ponselle as Selika and Giuseppe Danise as Nelusko, Adamo Didur as Don Pedro and Leon Rothier as the Grand Inquisitor.
21	5		2 librettos
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil:
21	5		--1. Court Room, 20.5x30.7 cm.
21	5		--IV. 2: Promontory, 17.5x18.5 cm.
14-9-7	1		5 p. sketches of ship, Act III
21	5		8 technical drawings
21	5		1 program
L'Amico Fritz, November 15, 1923 (1924) : Note: Comedy in 3 acts by Pietro Mascagni, conducted by Roberto Moranzoni with Lucrezia Bori as Suzel and Miguel Fleta as Fritz, and Giuseppe Danise as Rabbi David.
21	6		Libretto
			4 Drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B20	3		--Dining Room (not used), 26x44 (19x36) cm.
B20	4		--Dining Room B, 28x36 (16x23) cm.
B20	5		--Terrace A, 28x46 (36x19) cm.
B20	6		--Terrace, used, 24x31 (15x23) cm.
14-9-7	2		4 ground plans
Carmen, November 22, 1923 (1950) : Note: Opera in 4 acts with music by Georges Bizet, lyrics by H. Meilhac & L. Halévy based on the novel by Prosper Merimée, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Florence Easton as Carmen and Giovanni Martinelli as Jose.
21	7		2 librettos
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B20	7		--Act I: Square in Seville, 23x30 (16x23) cm., sig.
B20	8		--Act II: Tavern, 23x30 (16x23) cm.
B20	9		--Act III: Smuggler scene, 23x30 (16x23) cm., sig.
B20	10		--Act IV: Arma scene, 23x30 (12x20) cm.
14-9-7	3		4 technical drawings
21	7		5 photographs of set drawings
21	7		4 programs, 1937-1950
Faust, November 30, 1923 (1951) : Note: A new design for the prolog was added to the 1917 production. Conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Giovanni Martinelli as Faust, Lawrence Tibbett as Valentin, Fiodr Chaliapin as Mephistopheles and Frances Alda as Margarette.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
21	8		--Study, 22x33 (14x23) cm.
14-9-7	4		1 ground plan
21	8		3 programs, 1942-50
Fedora, December 8, 1923 (1926) : Note: A lyric drama in 3 acts, music by Umberto Giordano, book by V. Sardou, directed by Wilhelm von Wymetal, conducted by Gennaro Papi, with Maria Jeritza as Fedora, Giovanni Martinelli as Loris Ipanov and Antonio Scotti as De Siriex.
21	9		1 libretto
21	9		4 p. of script notes, von Wymetal
			2 drawings-watercolor and pencil :
21.	9		--Drawing room, 22x30.5 (16x25) cm.
21	9		--Bed room, 22.5x31.5 (16x25) cm., sig.
21	9		1 set sketch
14-9-7	5		5 technical drawings
Martha, December 14, 1923 (1929) : Note: Opera by Friedrich von Flotow, conducted by Gennaro Papi with Frances Alda as Harriet, Kathleen Howard as Nancy, Beniamino Gigli as Lionel and Giuseppe DeLuca as Plunkett.
			2 drawings, watercolor and/or pencil :
B20	11		--I: Village square, 28x38 (15x22) cm.
21	10		--Kitchen scene, 22x29 (15x23) cm.
21	10		2 sketches
14-9-7	6		5 technical drawings
Freischütz, Der, March 22, 1924 (1929) : Note: Opera in 3 acts, music by Carl Maria von Weber, libretto by Friedrich Kind, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Elizabeth Rethberg as Agathe, Curt Taucher as Max, Michael Bohnen as Caspar and Leon Rothier as the hermit.
21	11		1 libretto
21	11		4 p. of script notes
			3 drawings-watercolor and pencil :
21	11		--II.1: Hunter's room, 22x31 (14x22) cm.
C5	2		--II.2: Wolves Glen, 34x38 (30x34) cm.
B21	1		--II.2: Wolves Glen B, 28x38 (23x34) cm.
21	11		1 sketch
14-9-.7	7		8 technical drawings
21	11		1 program, 1928-1929
			Set model
Contes d'Hoffman, (Tales of Hoffman), November 13, 1924 (1946) : Note: Comic opera in 4 acts, music by Jacques Offenbach, book by Jules Barbier, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Nina Morgana as Olympia, Lucrezia Bori as Giulietta and Antonia, Giuseppe DeLuca as Coppelius, Miguel Fleta as Hoffman and Lawrence Tibbett as Schlemil.
21	12		Libretto
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B21	2		--I: Prologue-Tavern, 27x35 (16x24) cm.
B21	3		--II: a. Olympia-Physician's room, 27x34 (16x24) cm.
B21	4		--II: b. Olympia-ballroom, 27x34 (16x24) cm.
B21	5		--III: Giulietta, 27x34 (16x24) cm.
B21	6		--IV: Antonia, 27x34 (16x24) cm.
21	12		1 p. set notes
21	12		3 detail drawings
14-9-7	8		8 technical drawings
21	12		7 photographs of set drawings
Falstaff, January 2, 1925 (1949) : Note: Opera based on The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare, music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Wilhelm von Wymetal, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Antonio Scotti as Falstaff, Frances Alda as Anne, Lawrence Tibbett as Ford, Lucrezia Bori as Mistress Ford and Adamo Didur as Pistol.
21	13		Libretto
21	13		3 photographs of sets
21	13		2 p. script notes
21	13		1 set sketch and notes
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
21	13		--Portal detail
B21	7		--Ford's room, 27x34.5 (16x24) cm.
14-9-7	9		5 technical drawings
21	13		2 photographs of set drawings
Pelléas et Mélisande, March 21, 1925 (1949) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera in 5 acts by Claude Debussy, adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Clarence Whitehill as Golaud, Leon Rothier as Arkel, Lucrezia Bori as Mélisande and Edward Johnson as Pelléas.
22	1		2 librettos
22	1		1 set sketch
B21	8		5 technical drawings
22	1		13 photos of set drawings
			Set model
Der Barbier von Bagdad (Barber of Bagdad), November 7, 1925 (1926) : Note: Opera in 2 acts, book and music by Peter Cornelius, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with George Meader as Kadi Baba Mustapha and Elisabeth Rethberg as Margiana.
22	2		Libretto, German
B21	9		Rough sketch, pencil
			2 Drawings-watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B21	9		--Act I: Room, Nueddin's House, 27x35 cm.
B21	10		--Act II: Mustapha's women's room, 27x35 cm.
22	2		7 technical drawings
14-9-7	10		8 technical drawings
22	2		1 photograph of Act I set
22	2		1 program, 1925-1926
La Vestale, November 12, 1925 (1927) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera in 3 acts by Gaspare Spontini, book by De Jouy, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Wilhelm Von Wymetal, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Rosa Ponselle as Giulia, Edward Johnson as Licinio, Giuseppe De Luca as Cinna and Margarete Matzenauer as the High Priestess.
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil on board :
B21	11		--I: Forum, 26x33 (22x33) cm., sig.
B22	1		--II: Vestal Temple, 21x45 (21x32) cm.
B22	2		--III.1: Campus Sceleratus, 32x45 (23x33) cm., sig.
22	3		--III.1: Cemetary
B22	3		--III.2: Arena, 32x45 (22x33), sig.
22	3		6 technical drawings
14-9-7	11		24 technical drawings
22	3		5 photos of set drawings
22	3		2 programs 1925-26
			Set models
Cena delle Beffe, January 2, 1926 (1927) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera by Umberto Giordano based on the play The Jest by Sem Benelli, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Beniamino Gigli as Gianetto Malaspini, Frances Alda as Ginevra, Titta Ruffo as Neri and Adamo Didur as the Doctor.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig.:
22	4		--Act 1: Banquet Hall, 19x19 (10x15) cm.
22	4		--Act II, IV, bedroom, 19x19 (9x14) cm.
22	4		--Act III: Prison, 19x19 (19x15) cm.
D5	3		4 technical drawings
22	4		6 sketches on tracing paper
22	4		4 photographs of set drawings
La Vida Breve, March 6, 1926. : Note: First American performance of opera by Manuel de Falla, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Lucrezia Bori as Salud.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B22	4		--Act I.1: Gypsy, 27x34 (16x24) cm., sig.
B22	5		--Act II.1: side of Manuel's house, 26x33 (17x24) cm.
B22	6		--Act II.2: square, 27x34 (16x24) cm.
D5	4		6 technical drawings
22	5		5 photographs of set drawings
Don Quichotte (Don Quixote), April 3, 1926 (1927) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of comic opera in 5 acts, music by Jules Massenet, book by Henri Cain, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Florence Easton as Dulcinea, Feodor Chaliapin as Don Quichotte and Giuseppe DeLuca as Sancho.
22	6		1 libretto
			5 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B22	7		--I: open square, 27x35 (18x24) cm., sig.
B22	8		--II: The Windmill Scene, 27x35 (18x24) cm., sig.
B22	9		--III: Bandits Scene A, 27x35 (16x24) cm., sig.
B22	10		--III: Bandits Scene, 28x38 (17x24) cm.
B22	11		--V: Road in the Woods, 27x34 (16x24) cm., sig.
14-9-7	12		7 technical drawings
22	6		6 photographs of set drawings
Turandot, November 16, 1926 (1930) : Note: First American performance of lyric opera in 3 acts and 5 scenes, music by Giacomo Puccini, book by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, costumes by Gretl Urban and B. Brunelleschi, directed by Wilhelm Von Wymetal, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Maria Jeritza as Princess Turandot, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi as Calaf, and Giuseppe DeLuca as Ping.
22	7		Director's notes, von Wymetal, 20 p.
22	7		3 postcards, costumes Austrian production
22	7		3 photostats of Buddha figures
22	7		7 sketches and plans
22	7		4 property detail drawings
14-9-7	13		17 technical drawings
22	7		12 photographs of set models
22	7		Program, 3/16/29
22	7		Article, NY Times Magazine, 11/14/26
			Set models
Fidelio, January 22, 1927 (1951) : Note: Opera in 2 acts, music by Ludwig von Beethoven, libretto by J. Sonnleithner and F. Treitschke from the French by J. N. Bouilly, conducted for the Beethoven Centenary revival by Artur Bodanzky with Nanny Larsen-Todsen as Leonore, Rudolf Laubenthal as Florestan, George Meader as Jacquino and Michael Bohnen as Rocco.
22	8		3 librettos
22	8		Script notes & sketches, 4 p.
			4 drawings-watercolor and pencil :
22	8		--Act I.2: prison yard,17x24 (10x13) cm.
22	8		--Act II.1: prison, 18x24 (10x16) cm.
B23	1		--Act II.2: castle terrace, 23x30 (17x24) cm., sig.
14-9-7	14		8 technical drawings
22	8		5 photographs of set drawings.
22	8		2 programs, 1945-46;1950-51
			Set model
The King's Henchman, February 17, 1927 (1929) : Note: World premiere of opera in 3 acts, music by Deems Taylor, libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Lawrence Tibbett as Eadger, Edward Johnson as Aethelwold and Florence Easton as Aelfrida.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B23	2		--Act II: Forest, 24x30 (13x19) cm.
			1 drawing, watercolor and ink :
23	1		--Trees, 14x20 (9x12) cm.
23	1		2 graphed drawings of Act I, III
14-9-7	15		7 technical drawings
23	1		1 bound piano-vocal score, inscr.
			Set models
Violanta, November 5, 1927 (1928) : Note: First American performance of opera with music by E.W. Korngold, written by Hans Müller, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Maria Jeritza as Violanta, Clarence Whitehill as Simone and Walter Kirchhoff as Alfonso.
23	2		Libretto
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B23	3		--room (not used A), 27x38 (16x26) cm.,sig.
B23	4		--room B, 28x38 (20x22) cm.
23	2		1 fireplace detail
14-9-7	16		14 technical drawings
23	2		1 photograph of set drawing
Hänsel und Gretel, November 5, 1927 (1948) : Note: Fairy opera in 3 acts, music by Engelbert Humperdinck, book by Adelheid Wette, costumes by Gretl Urban, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Editha Fleischer as Hänsel and Queena Mario as Gretel.
23	3		Libretto
23	3		Set notes by Von Wymetal, 6 p.
23	3		Sketches and notes, 7 items
			Drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B23	5		--Peasant's room, 26x31 (10x17) cm., sig.
14-9-7	17		10 technical drawings
23	3		6 photographs of sets
			Set model
Norma, November 16, 1927 (1945) : Note: Opera in 4 acts and 5 scenes, music by Vincenzo Bellini, book by Felice Romani, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Samuel Thewman, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Rosa Ponselle as Norma, and Ezio Pinza as Oroveso.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B23	6		--II: Norma's room, 27x37 (15x20) cm.
B23	7		--III: bedroom A, 27x37 (15x20) cm.
B23	8		--IV.1: Rocky Pass, 27x39 (15x20) cm.
23	4		2 sketches
14-9-7	18		10 technical drawings
23	4		7 photographs of set drawings
23	4		1 program, 1928-29
			Set model
La Rondine, March 10, 1928 (1936) : Note: First American performance of opera in 3 acts, music by Giacomo Puccini, costumes by Joseph Urban, conducted by Vicenzo Bellezza with Lucrezia Bori as Magda and Beniamino Gigli as Ruggero.
23	5		Director's notes, Von Wymetal, 17 p.
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B23	9		--I: Magda's salon, 28x37 (14.5x21) cm., sig.
B23	10		--Ballroom A, 27x34 (14x21) cm.
B23	11		--Ballroom B, 26x32 (15x21) cm.
B23	12		--III: Park, 28x38 (15x21) cm., sig.
23	5		2 set sketches
14-9-7	19		12 technical drawings
23	5		2 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Die Ägyptische Helena (Egyptian Helen), November 6, 1928 (1929) : Note: First American performance of opera by Richard Strauss, libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Maria Jeritza as Helen and Rudolph Laubenthal as Menelas.
A7	4 & 5		Piano score
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil, sig. :
B24	1		--Aithra palace on island, 27x35 (15x20) cm.
B24	2		--Enchanted tent, 27x35 (15x19) cm.
23	6		14 set notes by von Wymetal
23	6		8 technical drawings
14-9-7	20		10 technical drawings
23	6		8 photographs of sets
			Set model
La Campana Sommersa, November 24, 1928 (1930) : Note: First American performance of opera by Ottorino Respighi based on Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Versunkene Glocke, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Elizabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein, Giovanni Martinelli as Heinrich, Giuseppe DeLuca as Nickelmann and Ezio Pinza as Pastor.
23	7		Director's notes, Von Wymetal, 3 p.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B24	3		--I, IV: Forest, 27x34 (16x19) cm., sig.
B24	4		--II: Interior, 15x19, sig.
B24	5		--III: Smithy, 27x34 (15x19)
14-9-7	21		5 technical drawings
23	7		2 photos of set drawings
Manon, December 22, 1928 (1952) : Note: Opera in 5 acts with music by Jules Massenet, words by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, costumes by Joseph Urban, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Lucrezia Bori as Manon, Beniamino Gigli as Des Grieux, Leon Rothier as Comte Des Grieux and Giuseppe DeLuca as Lescaut.
23	8		2 librettos
23	8		Set notes, Von Wymetal, 5 p.
23	8		2 research photographs, 18c. interiors
			4 drawings, watercolor and pencil, 27x34 (15x19) cm., sig. :
B24	6		--I: Inn at Amiens
B24	7		--II: Apartment in Paris
B24	8		--IV: Hotel gambling room
B24	9		--V: Road to Havre
23	8		8 technical drawings
14-9-7	22		15 technical drawings
23	8		5 photographs of set drawings
			Set model
Jonny Spielt Auf, January 19, 1929 : Note: Opera in two parts by Ernst Krenek, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Michael Bohnen as Jonny and Florence Easton as Anita.
23	9		1 libretto
23	9		2 reference photographs
23	9		2 clippings
23	9		14 sketches
14-9-8	1		33 technical drawings
23	9		14 photographs of sets and scenes
			Set model
Louise, March 1, 1929 (1949) : Note: Opera in 4 acts and 5 scenes by Gustave Charpentier, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Wilhelm Von Wymetal, conducted by Louis Hasselmans with Lucrezia Bori as Louise, Antonin Trantoul as Julien, and Leon Rothier as the father.
23	10		1 libretto, German
23	10		1 sketch of Act I & IV
14-9-8	2		9 technical drawings
23	10		6 photographs of sets
23	10		2 programs, 1947-1949
			Set model
Fra Gherardo, March 21, 1929 : Note: First American performance of opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti, conducted by Tullio Serafin, with Edward Johnson as Gherardo, Maria Mueller as Mariola and Ezio Pinza as the Old Man and Podesta.
24	1		2 sets of script notes, German and English, 3 p. each
			1 drawing-watercolor and pencil :
24	1		--Act II: square, 22x25 cm.
24	1		8 sketches & details
14-9-8	3		24 technical drawings
24	1		7 photographs of set models and sets
			Set model
Don Giovanni, November 29, 1929 (1953) : Note: Opera in 2 acts, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, book by Lorenzo Da Ponte, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Wilhelm Von Wymetal, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Ezio Pinza as Don Giovanni, Pavel Ludikar as Leporello, Leonora Corona (for Rosa Ponselle) as Donna Anna, Elisabeth Rethberg as Donna Elvira, Beniamino Gigli as Don Ottavio and Leon Rothier as the Commandante.
24	2		Libretto
A8	1		11 photographs of previous Met sets
A8	2		Piano score
			2 drawings, watercolor and/or pencil :
B24	10A		--Act I.1: exterior, 28x37 (15x20) cm.
B24	10		--Act II.5: Giovanni's room, 41x31 cm.
24	2		13 set sketches
14-9-8	4		34 technical drawings
24	3		27 photographs of set models and sets
24	3		2 programs, 1929, 1937
			Set models
Luisa Miller, December 21, 1929 (1931) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera in 3 acts, music by Giuseppe Verdi, book by Salvatore Cammarano based on Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, costumes by Joseph Urban, directed by Ernst Lernt, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Giacomo Lauri-Volpi as Rodolfo, Giuseppe DeLuca as Miller and Rosa Ponselle as Luisa.
14-9-8	5		22 technical drawings
24	4		6 sketches
24	4		10 photographs of sets
24	4		1 program, 1929-30
			Set model
Boccaccio January 2, 1931. : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera in 3 acts by Franz von Suppe, directed by Wilhelm Von Wymetal, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Maria Jeritza as Boccaccio and George Meader as Scalza.
24	5		Set notes, Von Wymetal, 16 p.
24	5		2 set details
14-9-8	6		6 technical drawings
24	5		6 photographs of set drawings
			Set models
Schwanda, der Dudelsakpfeifer (Schwanda the Bagpiper), November 7, 1931 (1932) : Note: First American performance of Czech opera Svanda Dudák with music by Jaromir Weinberger, book by Miles Kares translated into German by Max Brod, choreographed by August Berger, directed by Hanns Niedecken-Gebhard, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Friedrich Schorr as Schwanda.
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil :
B25	1		--City Entrance, 31X39 (26X35) cm.
24	6		Bagpiper, pencil drawing
14-9-8	7		10 technical drawings
24	6		6 photos of drawings & sets
			Set model
Donna Juanita, January 2, 1932 : Note: Fist Metropolitan performance of opera in 3 acts, music by Franz von Suppe, book by F. Zell and Richard Genee, costumes by Lillian Gaertner Palmedo, directed by Hans Niedecken-Gebhard, conducted by Artur Bodanzky with Maria Jeritza as Donna Juanita.
A7	6		Booklet, set notes
24	7		Detail sketch
14-9-8	8		7 technical drawings
24	7		3 photographs of sets
24	7		Program, 1932
			Set model
Peter Ibbetson, February 7, 1932 (1935) : Note: World premiere of opera in 3 acts and 8 scenes based on novel by George Du Maurier, music by Deems Taylor, libretto by Constance Collier and Deems Taylor, directed by Wilhelm von Wymetal, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Edward Johnson as Peter Ibbetson, Lucrezia Bori as Mary and Lawrence Tibbett as Colonel Ibbetson. Urban also designed the costumes for the 1933-1935 performances.
25	1		Libretto
25	1		Set notes, 11p.
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
B25	2		--II.1: Inn
B25	3		--II.2: Garden
25	1		7 set sketches and notes
25	1		13 technical drawings, furniture
14-9-8	9		19 technical drawings
25	1		1 program, 1931-1932
			Set model
24	7		Piano-vocal score, inscr. Deems Taylor
La Sonnambula, March 16, 1932 (1935) : Note: Opera in 3 acts, 4 scenes with music by Vincenzo Bellini, book by Felice Romani, conducted by Tullio Serafin with Lily Pons as Amina, Beniamino Gigli as Elvino and Ezio Penza as Count Rudolfo.
25	2		Libretto
25	2		3 detail drawings
14-9-8	10		13 technical drawings
25	2		3 photos of set drawings
25	2		Program, 1931-1932
			Set model
Electra, December 3, 1932 (1962) : Note: First Metropolitan performance of opera in one act, music by Richard Strauss, libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, costumes by Lillian Gaertner Palmedo, conducted in the first Metropolitan performance by Artur Bodanzky with Gertrude Kappel as Electra, Karin Branzell as Clytemnestra, Rudolf Laubenthal as Aigisthus and Friedrich Schorr as Orestes.
			2 drawings, watercolor, sig. :
14-10-2	1		--Set, 50x65 (36x50) cm.
D5	5		--Set, 45x62 (28x46) cm.
B25	4		Mounted photograph of set drawing
25	3		7 technical drawings
14-9-8	10		6 technical drawings
25	3		2 programs, 1937-1952
D5	5		Picture of set model from article
			Set model
Undated or Unproduced :
25	4		Walküre        1 libretto
25	4		Notes, 1 p.
25	4		2 drawings of Act III, pencil
14-9-8	11		8 technical drawings
25	4		3 mounted photos of set drawings
			Set model
25	5		Metropolitan Opera Stage Plans
14-9-8	12		8 technical drawings
25	6		Portfolio Cover, early opera plans
D6			Wiener Werkstätte scrapbook cover, 50x50 cm.
Librettos :
25	7		Josephs Legende (Legend of Joseph): --Guide to the ballet
A7	7		--Piano score
25	7		Meistersinger        2 librettos
25	7		Merman and Mermaid        1 libretto
25	7		Pearl Fishers        1 libretto
25	7		Rheingold        1 libretto
25	8		Trovatore        1 piano score
25	8		Villi        1 libretto
3.6: Film, 1915-1931 Note: Joseph Urban was art director for William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions from 1919 to 1925. He also worked a year for the Fox Film Studios in 1930, drawn to the one source of income not devastatingly depleted by the Great Depression. Each film is listed by title, followed by the name of the producing studio and the releasing company, the production number and the release date. The files contain letters, contracts, reference and photo scrapbooks, drawings, photographs and articles. Some of the productions contain photographs which mark, for purposes of comparison, whether the set was lighted by the director or by Urban. Items of interest include a color key, a numbered code for how colors would photograph in black and white under studio lights, and a letter dated January 1920 which discusses whether the director or the studio should control the making of the film. The photo scrapbooks picture all the sets used for the Hearst films and show the attention to detail used for period sets as well as the imagination employed for the modern interiors. The reference scrapbooks provide an example of how Urban sourced his designs.
Cosmopolitan Productions, 1920-23 :
25	9		Contract, Feb. 19, 1920, 2 p.
25	9		7 letters, 1920-1921, 10 p.
25	9		Articles, 1920-1923, 6 p.
25	9		4 photographs of color key
C5	3		Article and letter from Gurschner, 1923
Strand Theater Stage Set, 1915 :
			1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
B25	4A		--stage and orchestra set, 24x34 cm., sig.
25	10		Plan for stage set
25	10		2 photographs of set
Rivoli Theater Stage Setting, 1919 :
			2 drawings, Watercolor and/or pencil :
C5	4		--Mythical scene, 35x47 cm.
D5	6A		--Stage, 39x40 (37x39) cm.
25	11		Set notes, 1 p.
D5	6		5 technical drawings
25	11		2 photographs of stage setting
The Golem, UFA/Paramount, 1920 (US 1921) : Note: German film written by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen, set designed by Hans Polzig, directed by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese, with Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck and Ernst Deutsch.
26	1		47 photographs of scenes
Humoresque, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #5, 1920 : Note: Written by Frances Marion based on the stories by Fannie Hurst, directed by Frank Borzage with Alma Rubens, Gaston Glass and Vera Gordon.
26	2		2 photographs of sets & scene
A8	3		1 photograph, Venetian Court
C6			Scrapbook #1
The Restless Sex, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #6, September 12, 1920 : Note: Romantic comedy-drama based on the Robert W. Chambers story, by Leo d'Usseau, costumes by Erté, directed by Robert Z. Leonard with Marion Davies, Carlyle Blackwell and Ralph Kellard. Norma Shearer played a bit part. Premiered at the Criterion Theater where the manager Hugo Riesenfeld composed music around the Marion Davies Waltz for the live Prologue, The Garden of Eden designed by Urban.
14-9-8	14		6 technical drawings
26	3		7 sketches & notes
26	3		4 photographs of sets and scenes
C6			Scrapbook #1
The World and His Wife, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #7, 1920 : Note: Adapted from the play by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger which was based on the Spanish poem El Gran Galeoto by Jose Echegaray, screenplay by Frances Marion, directed by Robert G. Vignola with Alma Rubens, Montagu Love, Pedro de Córdoba and Gaston Glass.
26	4		18 photographs of sets and scenes
C6			Scrapbook #1
Heliotrope, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #8, 1920. : Note: Based on Whiff of the Heliotrope by Richard Washburn Child, directed by George D. Baker with Frederick Burton.
26	5		9 photographs of sets & scenes
C6			Scrapbook #1
Inside of the Cup, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #10, 1921 : Note: Written by George Dubois Proctor based on a novel by Winston Churchill, directed by Albert Capellani with William Carleton and David Torrence.
26	6		5 photographs of sets and scenes
A8	4 & 5		2 photographs of Church altar
C6			Scrapbook #1
Passionate Pilgrim, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #11, 1921 : Note: Directed by Robert G. Vignola with Matt Moore and Mary Newcombe
C6			Scrapbook #1
Buried Treasure, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #12, 1921 : Note: Written by F. Britten Austin, directed by George D. Baker, starring Marion Davies and Norman Kerry.
			14 drawings-watercolor and/or pencil :
26	7		--12 decorations of ship panels, paper, 11x13 cm.
B25	5		--1 pirate ship stern, 26x20 cm.
14-9-8	15		--Elevation of pirate ship, 74x90 cm.
26	7		1 print of altar, retouched
26	7 & 8		23 photographs of sets & scenes
A8	6-9		4 photographs of sets
			Set model
C6			Scrapbook #1
Straight Is the Way, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #15, 1921 : Note: Directed by Robert G. Vignola with Matt Moore.
C6			Scrapbook #1
Proxies, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #16, 1921 : Note: Story by Frank R. Adams, directed by George D. Baker with Norman Kerry and Zena Keefe.
26	9		1 photograph, Set 16.9, Stairs
C7			Scrapbook #2
Bride's Play, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #18, 1921 : Note: Story by Donn Byrne, directed by George Terwilliger, with Marion Davies and Wyndham Standing.
			3 drawings, watercolor and pencil:
26	10		--Drawbridge, 17x25 (15x21) cm.
26	10		--Servant's room, 19x22 (17x20) cm.
26	10		--Wedding, 23x21 (19x20) cm.
26	10		5 plans & sketches
26	10		Prolog, set sketch
14-9-8	16		3 technical drawings, Prolog
26	10 & 11		36 photographs of sets & scenes
A8, A9			12 photographs of drawings, sets & scenes
C7			Scrapbook #2
The Wild Goose, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #19, 1921 : Note: Story by Gouveneur Morris, directed by Albert Capellani with Norman Kerry and Mary MacLaren. New York premiere at the Rialto May 1921.
27	1		1 photograph of set
A9	7		1 photograph of set
C7			Scrapbook #2
The Woman God Changed, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #20, 1921 : Note: Directed by Robert G. Vignola with Seena Owen.
27	2		1 drawing, watercolor and pencil:
D5	6B		--Courtroom scene, 35x55 cm.
A9	8 & 9		2 photographs of set & scene
C7			Scrapbook #2
Get-Rich-Quick, Wallingford, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #21, 1921 : Note: Written by Luther Reed from a play by George M. Cohan based on George Randolph Chester's Wallingford stories, directed by Frank Borzage with Sam Hardy, Doris Kenyon, Norman Kerry and Billie Dove.
27	3		4 photographs of sets
A9	10 & 11		2 photographs of sets
C7			Scrapbook #2
Just Around the Corner, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #22, 1921 : Note: Story by Fannie Hurst, directed by Frances Marion with Fred Thomson and Sigrid Holmquist.
C7			Scrapbook #2
Enchantment, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #23, 1921 : Note: Written by Frank R. Adams, directed by Robert G. Vignola with Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
27	4		Clipping of Sleeping Beauty set
27	4		5 renderings of Fairy Tale scenes
A9	12		1 drawing of silhouette birth scene
27	5		19 reference photographs
27	6		30 photographs of sets & scenes
A9	13-29		18 mounted photographs of sets and scenes
A9	30		Mounted graphed elevation and photo of fairy tale drawing
C7			Scrapbook #2
Back Pay, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #24, 1922 : Note: Story by Fannie Hurst, written by Frances Marion, directed by Frank Borzage, with Seena Owen and Matt Moore.
27	7
A10	1		Photograph of scene
C7			Scrapbook #2
Boomerang Bill, Paramount/Cosmopolitan, #26, 1922 : Note: Written by Jack Boyle and Doty Hobart, directed by Tom Terriss with Lionel Barrymore
27	8		2 photographs of sets
A10	2-5		4 photographs of sets
C7			Scrapbook #2
Find the Woman, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #A1, 1922 : Note: Story by Arthur Somers Roche, directed by Tom Terriss with Alma Rubens, Norman Kerry and Harrison Ford.
C7			Scrapbook #2
The Young Diana, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #27, 1922 : Note: Written by Marie Corelli and Luther Reed, directed by Robert G. Vignola and Albert Capellani, with Marion Davies, Clara Kimball Young, Pedro de Córdoba and Forrest Stanley.
27	9		Letter from William Randolph Hearst
27	9		Chair elevations, graphite and colored pencil, 10x18 cm.
27	9		2 photographs-Dimitrius' Study
A10	6-8		3 photographs-Dimitrius' Lab
C7			Scrapbook #2
Beauty Shop, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #30, 1922 : Note: Based on the play by Channing Pollock, directed by Edward Dillon with Raymond Hitchcock.
C8			Scrapbook #3
Beauty's Worth, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #31, 1922. : Note: Story by Sophie Kerr, screenplay by Luther Reed, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies, released March 26, 1922.
14-9-8	17		5 technical drawings
27	10		Photograph of Doll scene
C8			Scrapbook #3
Sisters, Cosmopolitan #32 :
C8			Scrapbook #3
The Good Provider, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #34, 1922 : Note: Story by Fannie Hurst, written by John Lynch, directed by Frank Borzage with Vera Gordon, Dore Davidson and Vivienne Osborne.
C8			Scrapbook #3
When Knighthood Was In Flower, Cosmopolitan/Paramount. #35, 1922 : Note: Novel by Charles Major, screenplay by Luther Reed, directed by Robert G. Vignola with Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Pedro de Córdoba and William Powell.
C9			Reference Scrapbook
			2 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
27	11		--Inn room, 21x26 (20x24) cm.
27	11		--entranceway, 21x24 (14x11) cm.
A10	9		Retouched photographs of Doors
14-9-8	18		Blueprint, Set 27
27	11		12 photos of sets and scenes
C8			Scrapbook #3
Valley of Silent Men, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #36, 1922 : Note: Story by James Oliver Curwood, directed by Frank Borzage with Lew Cody and Alma Rubens.
C8			Scrapbook #3
Face in the Fog, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #37, 1922 : Note: Boston Blackie mystery drama, directed by Alan Crosland with Lionel Barrymore and Seena Owen.
C8			Scrapbook #3
Adam and Eva, Cosmopolitan/Paramount, #39, 1923 : Note: Adapted by Luther Reed from the stage comedy by Guy Bolton and George Middleton, directed by Robert G. Vignola with Marion Davies, T. Roy Barnes and Edward Douglas.
C10			Scrapbook #4
Enemies of Women, Cosmopolitan /Goldwyn, #40, 1923 : Note: Based on book by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, script by John Lynch, choreographed by Mary Urban, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Alan Crosland with Lionel Barrymore, Pedro de Córdoba, and Alma Rubens.
27	12		1 photograph of Monte Carlo
14-9-8	18		4 technical drawings
C10			Scrapbook #4
The Go-Getter, Cosmopolitan/Goldwyn, #42, 1923 : Note: Story by Peter B. Kyne, directed by Edward H. Griffith with T. Roy Barnes and Seena Owen.
C10			Scrapbook #4
Little Old New York, Cosmopolitan/Goldwyn, #43, 1923 : Note: Written by Luther Reed based upon the play by Rida Johnson Young, special music by Victor Herbert, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by Sidney Olcott with Marion Davies and Harrison Ford. Urban renovated the Park Theater, renamed the Cosmopolitan Theater, for the August 1 premiere.
C9			Reference Scrapbook
27	13		3 photographs of sets
14-9-8	20		2 prop drawings, diplomas
14-9-8	20		2 blueprints, Cosmopolitan Theater stage set
C10			Scrapbook #4
Unseeing Eyes, (Snowblind) Cosmopolitan/Goldwyn, #45, 1923 : Note: Adapted from Snowblind by Arthur Stringer, screenplay by Bayard Veiller, directed by E. H. Griffith with Lionel Barrymore and Seena Owen. Original music composed by Erno Rapee.
C10			Scrapbook #4
Under the Red Robe, Cosmopolitan/Goldwyn, #46,1923 : Note: From story by Simon Weyman, adapted by Bayard Veiller, driected by Alan Crosland with Alma Rubens, John Charles Thomas, Robert B. Mantell and William Powell. Opened at the Cosmopolitan Theater where Victor Herbert conducted his overture and Frederick Stahlberg conducted the picture score by William Frederick Peters.
C11			Reference scrapbook
B25	6		Elevation, King's audience
27	14		6 photographs of sets
C10			Scrapbook #4
Yolanda, Cosmopolitan/Metro-Goldwyn, #48, February 19, 1924 : Note: Story by Charles Major adapted by Luther Reed, directed by Robert G. Vignola, cameramen Ira H. Morgan and George Barnes, special musical score by William Frederick Peters, overture composed by Victor Herbert, costumes by Gretl Urban, with Marion Davies, Lyn Harding, Holbrook Blinn, Maclyn Arbuckle, and Johnny Dooley.
C12-13			Reference scrapbook
14-9-8	21		2 technical drawings
27	15		4 rough sketches
C14			Scrapbook #5
The Great White Way, (Cain and Mabel), Cosmopolitan/Metro-Goldwyn, #49, 1924 : Note: Story by H. C. Witwer, written by Larry Doyle and Luther Reed, directed by E. Mason Hopper with Anita Stewart, T. Roy Barnes, and Oscar Shaw.
14-9-8	22		2 blueprints
27	16		1 photograph of set
C14			Scrapbook #5
Janice Meredith, Cosmopolitan/Metro-Goldwyn, #51, 1924 : Note: Written by Lillie Hayward based on Paul Leicester Ford novel, music by Deems Taylor, costumes by Gretl Urban, directed by E. Mason Hopper with Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Tyrone Power, Sr., Olin Howlin and W. C. Fields.
C15-16			Reference scrapbook
27	17		3 photographs of sets
14-9-8	23		2 blueprints of stage set for premiere
C14			Scrapbook #5
Zander the Great, Cosmopolitan/Metro-Goldwyn, 1925 : Note: Adapted by Frances Marion and Lillie Hayward from the play by Salisbury Field, costumes by Gretl Urban, musical score by Victor Schertzinger, directed by George Hill with Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Olin Howlin, John Huff and Hedda Hopper.
27	18
D5	7		2 ground plans
Fox Movietone City Studio, 1930 :
28	1		3 photographs of studio lot
Big Trail, Fox,1930 : Note: Directed by Raoul Walsh.
28	2		4 photographs of publicity
East Lynne, Fox, 1931 : Note: Written by Bradley King and Tom Barry from the novel by Mrs. Henry Wood, directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Ann Harding and Clive Brook.
D5	8		3 sketches and technical drawings
28	3		54 photographs of sets
28	4		Scottish Song book
3.7: Architecture and Design, 1914-1933 Note: This subseries chronicles Urban's numerous design and architectural projects. The files contain watercolor renderings, technical drawings, and photographs. Items of interest are the files on exhibits, the Wiener Werkstätte gallery, the extensive work for the unrealized Metropolitan Opera House, the designs for store fronts and restaurants, the drawings for the New School, the Palace of the Soviets proposal and the Suburban Movie Theater. There is very little on some projects such as the Palm Beach buildings and the Hearst International Magazine Building. The file on Mar A Lago, for example, lacks plans and is almost entirely made up of photographs and magazine articles.
United Shoe Machinery Company, 1914 : Note: Urban designed 50 panels on the history of the shoe for a San Francisco Exposition display.
28	5		List of sketches & plates
28	5		3 sketches
28	5		20 photos of costumes
Conry's House, 1915 :
28	6		2 pencil sketches
28	6		5 wall decorations
28	6		3 photographs of hallway
Century Theater Roof, 1916 : Note: 28.7
14-9-9	1		5 blueprints, Carrere and Hastings
Liberty Theater, 1917 :
28	8		2 drawings of mermaid panel
28	8		26 photographs, wall decorations
Buck House, Gene, 1919 : Note: Urban decorated Gene Buck's house in Great Neck shortly after the Ziegfeld writer's marriage.
28	9
14-9-9	2		5 blueprints
War Memorial, 1919 : Note: Studies for G. S. Mandell, editor of the Boston Transcript and the New York Tribune
			8 drawings, watercolor and pencil :
28	10		--Ground plan, 22x22 cm.
28	10		--Detail A, 26x19 (19x15) cm.
28	10		--Detail B, 22x22 (15x16) cm., sig.
B25	8		--Sanctuary, 41x28 (29x17) cm., sig.
B25	9		--Conception, 33x25 (23.5x14) cm., sig.
28	10		--Portal of Honor, 22x22 (18x15) cm., sig.
28	10		--Peace Memorial on Palisade, 22x20 (19x16) cm., sig.
28	10		--Perception on Terrace, 26x20 (20x14) cm., sig.
28	10		12 photographs of renderings
Sherman Hotel Tiger Room, Chicago, 1920 :
28	11		34 photographs of wall decorations
Dodge Brothers Banquet, February, 1921. : Note: Urban designed the grand ballroom in the Waldorf Astoria for the Dodge Brothers' 6th Annual Dealers' luncheon.
28	12		3 photographs of decorative detail
28	12		2 photographs of the banquet room
Wiener Werkstätte, June 1922 :
28	13		7 sketches of furniture
B25	10		3 showroom plans
28	13		7 articles re opening, 17 p.
28	13		Drawing of chair by fire place, 20x20 (13x13) cm.
B25	11		Scrapbook, 31 p.
28	13		4 photographs of New York showroom
28	13		4 photographs of Chicago exhibit
28	13		2 photographs of Klimt painting
28	13		St. Etienne Gallery catalog and invitation, 1966
Rialto Theater Stage, June, 1922 :
			Drawing, watercolor and pencil :
D5	9		--stage elevation
29	1		1 working sketch
14-9-9	3		7 technical drawings
Fulton Theater, Fall, 1922 :
29	2
A10	10		2 Fairy Tale Illustrations
Lyon and Healey Store Window, Chicago, November, 1922 :
29	3		Sketches, 10 p.
14-9-9	4		6 technical drawings
29	3		8 photographs of window & plans
Cosmopolitan Theater, August 1, 1923. : Note: The Park Theater was renovated and renamed for the film premiere of Little Old New York.
E3			Watercolor drawing of floral panel decoration, 25x71 cm.
29	4		Watercolor drawing of floral wall decoration
29	4		6 sketches and notes
14-9-9	5		4 technical drawings
29	4		41 photographs of before and after
Daily Mirror Float, September 5, 1924 : Note: Designed for the National Beauty Pageant at Atlantic City. The float carried the 8 New York contestants in a Boardwalk parade and won first prize.
29	5		1 photograph
Camp House, Dallas, Texas, 1925-1926 :
29	6		Specifications booklet, August 1926
Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, 1925-1926 : Note: This house was designed for Mrs. E. F. Hutton, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post
29	7		Telegram, 8/9/26