The Clarence “Beeb” Salzer Collection documents the professional and artistic career of Beeb Salzer and includes ephemera, photographs, and artworks from the course of his career, beginning with his time at Yale. The bulk of the collection dates from 1955-2013. Materials include newspaper clippings, playbills, correspondence, photographs, set designs, speech manuscripts, legal papers, and paintings. The collection is divided into four series: Career Papers, Art Work, Personal, and Audiovisual. Career Papers, arranged roughly in chronological order, consist largely of playbills, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Highlights include Salzer’s correspondence with the playwright Edward Albee, op-eds, and photographs and other ephemera from Salzer’s time teaching in South America. The Art Work series is arranged into two subseries: Personal Art and Theatrical Art. Personal artwork includes water color landscapes, caricatures of writers, modern paintings, and a wood carving. Also included are photographs of paintings. Theatrical artwork consists of scene designs for plays that Salzer designed sets for, most notably scene designs for The Saint of Bleeker Street. The Personal series includes photographs from Salzer’s early life, and a poem he was given to commemorate his retirement. The Audiovisual series is primarily made up of VHS tape recordings of The Saint of Bleeker Street and Speaking of the Arts. Also included are 35 mm slides of set designs for The Saint of Bleeker Street and other productions, a DVD recording of Salzer’s retirement party and the documentary Trial by Fire.