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Ernestine Schumann-Heink recital scrapbook, 1919 June 9.

Title: Ernestine Schumann-Heink recital scrapbook, 1919 June 9.

Bound scrapbook containing five items from a recital given at Washington State University by vocalist Ernestine Schumann-Heink and her accompanist, Frank La Forge. The scrapbook includes a program for the performance and four music scores with Schumann-Heink's autograph; two also include La Forge's autograph.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear feet (1 volume).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496286557 View

Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935. Marcella Sembrich collection, 1790-1988 (bulk 1885-1930).

Title: Marcella Sembrich collection, 1790-1988 (bulk 1885-1930).

The correspondence, papers, posters, and programs in this collection represent the career and activities of Marcella Sembrich and her family from 1851 to 1988. The collection consists of an extensive amount of correspondence with the leading musical figures of the day; posters, concert advertisements and programs from Sembrich (and other) performances throughout her career; and memorabilia including an autograph album with signatures and drawings of famous musicians and others. Series IX "Photographs" also includes some 15-20 original graphic art works among its 2284 items. Subjects include Sembrich, places she lived, places she performed, and people with whom she performed. The sheet music and musical scores (Series X) are currently being processed.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486438 View

Edith Evans Braun collection, 1916-1976

Title: Edith Evans Braun collection 1916-1976

The Edith Evans Braun Collection highlights the history of American music in the early and mid twentieth century. The collection shows various details of the lives and careers of notable music figures of the period through the memoirs and diaries of Edith Evans Braun, a pianist and director at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Of strong interest in the collection are the music manuscript sketches by emerging composers (Deems Taylor, Samuel Barber) of the period, and signed and dedicated published scores. There are also letters and photographs from Taylor, Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Josef Hoffman, and others. The period covered in the collection is from 1916 to 1971.

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http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20102 View

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936. Autograph letter signed, dated : Detroit Nov. 21 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, 1927 Nov. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Detroit Nov. 21 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, 1927 Nov. 21.

Expressing regret that she cannot accept their invitation but saying that on 15 December she will be on her way home--"the first Christmas home, after four years!", "In loving devotion for my 'Kapellmeister' and his 'Frau,' his Erda, Ortrud, Fricka, Norne, Waltraute, Magdalene, 'Brangäne,'" etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (obl. 24mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270669677 View

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936. Notes, 1919 Feb. 28 and 1924 May 30, to Frederick A. Stock, [Chicago?]

Title: Notes, 1919 Feb. 28 and 1924 May 30, to Frederick A. Stock, [Chicago?]

Include a note (1924 May 30) addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Stock conveying her regrets that she cannot attend their daughter's wedding, and an informal message (1919 Feb. 28) which apparently accompanied a gift.

ArchivalResource: Holographs signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34491664 View

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936. Autograph letter signed, dated : Hamburg Apr. 1 1906, to an unidentified friend, 1906 Apr. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Hamburg Apr. 1 1906, to an unidentified friend, 1906 Apr. 1.

Saying she will with pleasure sing something for the scholarship cause before returning to America on 6 September after the Bayreuth-Munich Festspiele, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270669680 View

William R. Moran Sound Recording Collection, 1902-1984

Title: William R. Moran Sound Recording Collection 1902-1984

Rare recordings on custom vinyl pressings of opera and Western art music, donated by collector and researcher William Moran.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes:; approx. 700 discs (about 280 10" discs and 410 12" discs) ; six open reel tapes ; ten metal parts ; approx. twelve folders of papers

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5k4036jt View

Adams, Milward, 1857-1923. Milward Adams photograph collection [graphic]

Title: Milward Adams photograph collection [graphic] ca. 1890-1910.

129 black and white photographs of statesmen, orators, lecturers, musicians, singers, composers, and conductors, autographed to Milward Adams and mounted on boards.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (10 oversize boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758131334 View

Mayer, Carrie Mina. Carrie Mayer papers, 1920-1948.

Title: Carrie Mayer papers, 1920-1948.

The Carrie Mayer papers document the early career of Carrie Mina Mayer, a singer and pianist active in the late 1920s and 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85216854 View

Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, Bulk, 1922-1935, 1892-1957

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs Bulk, 1922-1935 1892-1957

Celebrity photographs (classical music and films) autographed to Ussher in the 1930s; Ussher was a musicologist/music critic.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet; 1 box

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8s20398c View

Goss, Milo Wesley. Papers, 1918-1928.

Title: Papers, 1918-1928.

Letters from soldiers, telegrams from "Mother" Schumann-Heink, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29852376 View

Stock, Frederick, 1872-1942. Frederick Stock papers, 1873-1954.

Title: Frederick Stock papers, 1873-1954.

Comprise letters from notable musicians, personal documents, testimonials, memorials, scrapbooks, programs, memorabilia, and photos; also music scores for his compositions and arrangements. Included are letters from Arrola B. Cole to Mrs. Stock, and from Georg Schumann to [Florenz?] Ziegfeld, a note by Gioacchino A. Rossini below a musical composition, with a note and music (on verso) by François A. Boieldieu, and a commentary by Fritz Volbach on his "Ostern," op.16.

ArchivalResource: 98 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66895323 View

American Legion. Post No. 10 (Boulder, Colo.). American Legion Post No. 10 printed materials.

Title: American Legion Post No. 10 printed materials. 1919-1961.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427293235 View

Murphy, Frank, 1890-1949. Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942.

Title: Frank Murphy autograph book, 1930-1942.

Autograph book from the 1930s and 1940s kept by Frank Murphy. The volume contains signatures, some with epigrammatic comments, some with drawings, by many of the nation's most distinguished government leaders, actors, artists, and writers. Some of the names include William Randolph Hearst, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Peter Arno, George M. Cohan, Charles Chaplin, Amelia Earhart, Diego Rivera, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ed Wynn, Graham McNamee, Paul Robeson, Gene Tunney, Carl Ed, Floyd Gibbons, John McCormack, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Frank Fay, Dorothy Stone and Charles Collins, Katharine Cornell, Walter Hampden, Dudley Field Malone, Helen Menken, Claude G. Bowers, William Allen White, Clark Howell, Roy W. Howard, Alben Barkley, and John Steuart Curry.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85778857 View

Parlette, Ralph, 1870-1930. Typed note signed Ralph Parlette to: [Hugh Fullerton] August 27, 1925.

Title: Typed note signed Ralph Parlette to: [Hugh Fullerton] August 27, 1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70816611 View

Baer, Leone Cass,. Leone Cass Baer photographs collection [graphic], 1910-1923.

Title: Leone Cass Baer photographs collection [graphic], 1910-1923.

The collection consists primarily of autographed publicity portraits of music, theater, and movie personalities, given to Leone Cass Baer, drama critic and writer for the Oregonian newspaper, 1910-1923. A few are unsigned, including a photographic print on postcard stock of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Houdini and a few movie stills and scenes from theater productions. In addition to Houdini, prominent performers whose autographed portraits are featured in the collection include Julian Eltidge, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Mary Pickford, Lillian Russell, Ernesite Schumann-Heinck, Laurette Taylor, and Sophie Tucker, among others. Some autographs are dated; other dates listed are dates the photographs were made. The photographers represented include many studios specializing in publicity portraits of performers throughout the United States. Includes film stills.

ArchivalResource: 1.8 cubic feet (73 photographs in 1 document box and 9 oversize folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55669786 View

Boulder Daily Camera. Madame Schumann-Heink printed materials 1903-1925.

Title: Madame Schumann-Heink printed materials 1903-1925.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427342673 View

Michael, Louise. [Louise Michael scrapbook].

Title: [Louise Michael scrapbook]. [1920-1952].

This scrapbook contains autographs, photographs, and letters from celebrities of the 1920s through 1940s, including Geraldine Farrar, Serge Rachmaninoff, Katherine Cornell, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Jack Dempsey, Fritz Kreisler, et. al. Also included are theater programs, mementos, and menus.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill. ; 37 x 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717630353 View

Levy, Edward G.,. Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Collection, 1829-1972 (inclusive).

Title: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Collection, 1829-1972 (inclusive).

Collection includes letters and autographs by Susan B. Anthony, Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, Anna Dickinson, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Jeannette Rankin, Edward Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe among others; suffrage memorabilia, including announcement of an automobile trip; trade cards; illustrated sewing machine instructions; a short story entitled "The Female Wanderer," 1829; a scrapbook of clippings re: singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink; a photograph of Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and an engraving of Emma Willard.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86145787 View

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936. Ernestine Schumann-Heink contracts and financial papers, 1888-1920 (bulk 1912-1915).

Title: Ernestine Schumann-Heink contracts and financial papers, 1888-1920 (bulk 1912-1915).

Concert and recording contracts, some with related correspondence; real estate contracts, deeds, and correspondence; and other financial papers. Most concert contracts were made by Schumann-Heink through her agent, Wolfsohn Musical Bureau, for concerts in various cities in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, 1912-1914. Also present are a few contracts and related papers concerning the Victor Talking Machine Company, 1906-1915; the Cincinnati Musical Festival Association, 1913; and baritone Edward J. McNamara, 1914. Real estate documents, 1888-1920, include contracts relating to construction of a house in San Diego, California; deeds for property in Chicago, Illinois; and a few letters and financial documents concerning other holdings in California and New York City Included is a small amount of correspondence with artist manager L. E. Behymer and Schumann-Heink's son Hans Heink. Financial papers, 1913-1919, include lists of Schumann-Heink's financial assets, a will and codicil, and other papers relating to investments. Also present is correspondence with the Overman Tire Company, concerning a business owned by Schumann-Heink's son, Henry Schumann-Heink.

ArchivalResource: 0.92 linear ft. (1 oversize box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83138729 View

Marcella Sembrich papers, 1790-1988, 1885-1930

Title: Marcella Sembrich papers 1790-1988 1885-1930

Marcella Sembrich was a Polish born coloratura soprano who sang leading roles in European and American opera during her highly successful career. From 1898 to 1909 she was a regular member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York. She continued performing as a concert singer after her retirement from the operatic stage. Sembrich also became an instructor of singing at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School of Music, becoming mentor to many pupils who later became famous in their own right. The correspondence, papers, posters, and programs in this collection represent the career and activities of Marcella Sembrich and her family from 1851 to 1988. The collection consists of an extensive amount of correspondence with the leading musical figures of the day; posters, concert advertisements and programs from Sembrich (and other) performances throughout her career; and memorabilia including an autograph album with signatures and drawings of famous musicians and others. Series IX "Photographs" also includes some 15-20 original graphic art works among its 2284 items. Subjects include Sembrich, places she lived, places she performed, and people with whom she performed. The sheet music and musical scores (Series X) are currently being processed.

ArchivalResource: 75

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20137 View

Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936. Autograph note signed, dated : Rochester, 27 December 1904, to an unidentified recipient, 1904 Dec. 27.

Title: Autograph note signed, dated : Rochester, 27 December 1904, to an unidentified recipient, 1904 Dec. 27.

Sending best wishes for the New Year.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270873720 View

Braun, Edith Evans, 1887-1976. Edith Evans Braun collection, 1916-1976.

Title: Edith Evans Braun collection, 1916-1976.