This article examines the cooperative acquisition and division of a twentieth-century manuscripts collection by two geographically distant university special collections, and the possibility of such a project as a model for other archives. The Library of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute of The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) and the Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) worked cooperatively to acquire the Robert Breen Collection which was divided between the two institutions. Mr. Breen's professional activities in theatre and the documentation of those activities fall into two distinct sections which made such a division possible and logical given the strengths of the two institutes.

Collection Division as an Acquisition Method

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