Series XII: Biographical
Scope and Contents note
>Series XII: Biographical Material, documents Richard Foreman's personal life through photographs, educational documents and scrapbooks. In addition, materials related to theater productions Richard Foreman participated in during high school and college appear in this series. These materials are arranged chronologically, where possible. Subseries A: Photographs, includes photographs of Richard Foreman as a child as well as personal snapshots. Subseries B: Richard Foreman's Education, documents Richard Foreman's educational progress and achievements beginning with elementary school and ending with graduate work. Subseries C: Richard Foreman's Early Arts Involvement, includes documentation of Richard Foreman's arts involvement as an actor, a singer and a writer. Subseries D: Family Related Documents, includes materials related to the lives and achievements of Richard Foreman's family.
Subseries A: Photographs
Black and white photograph of Richard Foreman as a toddler. Removed from frame., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2023 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black adn white photographs, one of Richard Foreman as a toddler, the other of building. Removed from single frame, image of building behind the RF photograph., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2024 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photographs of Richard and Leslie Foreman. Removed from miniature photo album titled "My Grandchildren", undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2025 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photographs of Richard and Leslie Forman. Removed from trifold frame., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2026 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photographs at Leslie Foreman's wedding. Includes case., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2027 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white portrait of Richard Foreman and Amy Taubin at their wedding. Includes case., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2028 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Color photograph of an unidentified man and woman in lounge chairs. [still in frame, frame nailed shut, possible mold in frame?], undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2029 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Foreman family Christmas card, undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2030 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white and sepia toned images of Richard Foreman as a child.
Box: 39, Folder: 2031 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white candid photographs of Richard Foreman as a baby with his family at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey., 1938
Box: 39, Folder: 2032 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photographs of Richard Foreman as a teen., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2033 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black adn white portraits of Richard Foreman, Leslie Foreman and Mrs. Foreman.
Box: 39, Folder: 2034 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white portraits of Richard Foreman's mother., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2035 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white portrait of Richard Foreman's father., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2036 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black adn white candid photographs of the Foremans. With a birthday card., ca 1941
Box: 39, Folder: 2037 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Candid, color phtographs of Richard Foreman's parents, ca 1982
Box: 39, Folder: 2038 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white images ca 1907. [perhaps Albert Foreman], ca 1907
Box: 39, Folder: 2039 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Color photographs of a house at two different times. [Possibly the Foreman home in Scarsdale], undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2040 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Color snapshots and negatives of a boat trip., undated
Box: 39, Folder: 2041 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Richard Foreman's Education
Elementary school including grades and health., 1943-1949
Box: 40, Folder: 2042 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Grade reports, Scarsdale High School, 1951-1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2043 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scarsdale High School Diploma, 1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2044 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Copy of letter from Brown University designating Richard Foreman a University Scholar with a small black and white portrait photograph., 1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2045 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence from Brown University, 1955-1957
Box: 40, Folder: 2046 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Brown University grade reports., 1955-1959
Box: 40, Folder: 2047 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Brown University degrees with honors information, 1956
Box: 40, Folder: 2048 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Term paper for class in the Art Department. Research copies and original., 1956
Box: 40, Folder: 2049 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Phi Beta Kappa membership letter, 1959
Box: 40, Folder: 2050 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yale re-admission letter., 1960
Box: 40, Folder: 2051 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries C: Richard Foreman's early arts involvement
Jabberwock, Scarsdale High School literary journal. Removed from inside cover of blue high school scrapbook in folder 2054. Richard Foreman contributed as Associate Editor and as Editor-in-Chief., 1954-1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2052 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Choir photographs. Removed from inside cover of blue high school scrapbook in folder 2054,, ca 1954-1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2053 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Blue high school scrapbook, includes programs, clippings and other documentation of Richard Foreman's arts involvement at Scarsdale High School, 1954-1955
Box: 41, Folder: 2054 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photographs of Richard Foreman in "Death of a Salesman' at Brown University., 1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2055 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Letter to Kate Manheim dated 27 May 1991 and a black and white photograph of Richard Foreman in "Death of a Salesman" at Brown University in 1955., 1955
Box: 40, Folder: 2056 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black scrapbook. Includes photographs, programs, clippings and other documentation of Richard Foreman's theater involvement at Brown University as well as Amy Taubin's theater performances from the same time., 1955-1967
Box: 42, Folder: 2057 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black and white photograph of Richard Foreman in "Time of your life" at Brown University in 1956., 1956
Box: 40, Folder: 2058 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D:Family related documents
Leslie Foreman, education related documents including College Honors and Commencement Program, 1963
Box: 40, Folder: 2060 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence between Claire Foreman and New York University School of Law regarding a scholarship endowment., 1966
Box: 40, Folder: 2061 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Leslie Foreman's engagement announcement in the New York Times and Reporter Dispatch., 1967
Box: 40, Folder: 2062 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Amy Taubin press and playbill from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie", 1968
Box: 40, Folder: 2063 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Two tickets, marked "Taubin 10 pl Thursday 29 1975", 1975
Box: 40, Folder: 2064 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Albert Foreman's obituary in the New York Times, 1 February 1992., 1992
Box: 40, Folder: 2065 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trees for Israel certificate. Two trees planted in memory of Claire and Albert Foreman from Richard and Kate, Leslie and David., undated
Box: 40, Folder: 2066 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Albert Foreman's business card., undated
Box: 40, Folder: 2067 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
