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Sheet music - American composers, 1790-1940.

Title: Sheet music - American composers, 1790-1940.

Collection of sheet music by American composers including Thomas A. Beckett, Irving Berlin, William Bradbury, Benjamin Carr, Dan Emmett, Stephen Foster, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Ned Harrigan, Charles K. Harris, Victor Herbert, Al Jolson, Lewis Lambert, James Gates Percival, William Tossiter, John Phillip Sousa, Hattie Starr, Leslie Stuart, James Thornton, George James Webb, Septimus Winner (Alice Hawthorne), and Henry C. Work.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510654 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 7; interview conducted by John Lomax III.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 7; interview conducted by John Lomax III. 1979 June 7.

Former BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about their experiences during the early years of BMI's organization. Discussion includes events during the early years of BMI; Haverlin's work with the Mutual Broadcasting System; the stories behind several of BMI's programming achievements, including the Book Parade, Lincoln for the Ages, and The American Story; development of the "Haverlin Collection"; promoting BMI among large and small broadcasters; tensions between BMI and ASCAP; BMI's fight against conspiracy charges; the story behind the arrest of ASCAP president Gene Buck; and memories of early BMI personnel.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62297595 View

Sheet music by United States publishers, 1800-1920.

Title: Sheet music by United States publishers, 1800-1920.

Collection of sheet music arranged by subject matter. Subject categories include abolitionist and slavery music, ballads, band music, costume illustrations, dance music, European composers in American editions, guitar music, American Indian music, inaugural music, Irish ballads, Jenny Lind, Mexican themes in music and illustrations, minstrel music, funeral music, Negro music, opera excerpts, patriotic music, U.S. presidents, ragtime, railroad music, religious and sacred music, salon music, music about ships and the sea, stage music, temperance songs, and music associated with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155511060 View

Carl Haverlin papers relating to Carl Sandburg, 1909–1964, 1947–1963

Title: Carl Haverlin papersrelating to Carl Sandburg 1909–1964 1947–1963

This collection consists of the Carl Sandburg files kept by BMI president and radio pioneer Carl Haverlin (1899–1985) spanning the years 1909–1964. During Haverlin's years at BMI he developed a close working relationship and friendship with Carl Sandburg.

ArchivalResource: .7 linearfeet; (circa 535 items)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0144 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 7; interview conducted by John Lomax III.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 7; interview conducted by John Lomax III. 1979 June 7.

Former BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about their experiences during the early years of BMI's organization. Discussion includes events during the early years of BMI; Haverlin's work with the Mutual Broadcasting System; the stories behind several of BMI's programming achievements, including the Book Parade, Lincoln for the Ages, and The American Story; development of the "Haverlin Collection"; promoting BMI among large and small broadcasters; tensions between BMI and ASCAP; BMI's fight against conspiracy charges; the story behind the arrest of ASCAP president Gene Buck; and memories of early BMI personnel.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62297595 View

Rare music manuscripts, [ca. 1790-1911].

Title: Rare music manuscripts, [ca. 1790-1911].

Rare music manuscripts and sketches including works by Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, Jules-Laurent Duprato, Franz Joseph Haydn, Leon Jessel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ethelbert Nevin, Jacques Offenbach, John Howard Payne, Anton Rubenstein, Samuel Smith, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510505 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 6; interview conducted by John Lomax III.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 6; interview conducted by John Lomax III. 1979 June 6.

Former BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about the formation of BMI. Discussion includes Haverlin's career prior to joining BMI; circumstances surrounding the formation of BMI; establishing BMI within an ASCAP dominated environment; ASCAP's reaction to BMI; growth in visibility as BMI songs begin to hit #1; BMI's work to encourage new composers; BMI's role in licensing country, blues, and rock music formats and issues related to rock's lyrics; and their efforts to get more American history into mass media. Interview includes interesting side note as Haverlin recalls his radio communication with Amelia Earhart during her flight from Hawaii to California in the 1930s.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62297596 View

Rare books, letters, and documents, 1778-1985.

Title: Rare books, letters, and documents, 1778-1985.

Collection of ca. 830 rare books, manuscripts and documents, music excerpts, and sketches, primarily from composers and musical performers. Authors including George Antheil, Samuel Barber, John Barbirolli, Bela Bartok, Arnold Bax, Robert Russell Bennett, Leonard Bernstein, Georges Bizet, Ernest Bloch, Nadia Boulanger, Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, George Crumb, Leopold Damrosch, Walter Damrosch, Reginald DeKoven, Theodore Dreiser, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, Stephen Foster, Edwin Franko Goldman, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Morton Gould, Percy Grainger, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Franz Joseph Haydn, Victor Herbert, Arthur Honneger, Charles Ives, Francis Scott Key, Serge Koussevitzky, Ruggerio Leoncavallo, Franz Liszt, Otto Luening, Jules Massenet, Yehudi Menuhin, Darius Milhaud, Jacques Offenbach, Eugene Ormandy, Ignace Paderewski, Giaccomo Puccini, Serge Rachmaninoff, Wallingford Riegger, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Carl Ruggles, Camille Saint-Saens, Robert Schumann, Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman, Ludwig Spohr, Leopold Stokowski, Johann Strauss, Josef Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Carl Maria von Weber, Anton Webern, Charles Marie Widor, Charles Wuorinen, and Efrem Zimbalist.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510302 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1974 August 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1974 August 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1974 Aug. 23.

Longtime BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about the beginning of the BMI organization. Discussion includes a description of the early BMI office environment; experiences establishing BMI in the industry; promoting BMI during the first years of the organization; early BMI contract details; the growth of BMI; comments on how a song becomes a hit; the financial situation for country songwriters prior to BMI; early BMI artists; competition with ASCAP; their career backgrounds; and their experiences during the early years of BMI.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound cassettes (1 hour, 33 minutes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58841221 View

Sheet music - European composers in U.S. editions, 1750-1940.

Title: Sheet music - European composers in U.S. editions, 1750-1940.

Collection of sheet music, primarily 19th century, of European composers in American editions. Composers include Daniel F.E. Auber, Henry R. Bishop, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, Gaetano Donizetti, Manuel Garcia, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Ignaz Moscheles, W.A. Mozart, Henry Purcell, Edward F. Rimbault, Gioacchino Rossini, Robert Schumann, and Johann Strauss.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510787 View

Lewis, Mort Reis. Papers of Mort Reis Lewis, 1953-1985.

Title: Papers of Mort Reis Lewis, 1953-1985.

The entire collection deals with Allan Nevins, his work and Mort Reis Lewis' efforts after Nevins' death to keep his legacy alive. The manuscripts include various drafts, most of which deal with Allan Nevins. These include copies of Ray Allen Billington's eulogy for Allan Nevins, his article "Allan Nevins - Historian: A Personal Reminiscences," and a copy of a speech by Billington regarding Nevins, which he gave at the Huntington Library. This series also includes drafts of manuscripts by Mort Reis Lewis such as "A Country Boy at the Huntington Library" and "A Different Profile in Courage: The Triumph of Will." There are also copies of the following scripts by Lewis: "A Pair of Boots" and "Stroke of Fate." Also included are transcripts of interviews, press releases and miscellaneous notes all dealing with Allan Nevins. The correspondence chiefly consists of letters by and to Mort Reis Lewis about Allan Nevins. The letters discuss Nevins' career as an American historian and the senior research associate at the Huntington Library. This series also deals with Lewis and other historians publishing about Nevins and Lewis' effort to get Nevins' image on a stamp. The correspondence also covers American society and politics during the 1960s and 1970s. Allan Nevins is the author of 36 letters, most of which are written to Lewis. There is also much correspondence between Lewis and Allan Nevins' wife, Mary, and his daughters, Anne Nevins Loftis and Meredith Nevins Mayer. The ephemera, which chiefly deals with Allan Nevins, includes newspaper clippings, obituaries, brochures, programs and audiocassettes. The ephemera also touches upon Mort Reis Lewis and Ray Billington and their work. There are four audiocassettes which contain interviews with James Thorpe, Ray Billington and E.B. Long and audio from the Allan Nevins Seminar at Claremont College, May 30, 1969. Notable participants include: American scholar, Ray Billington, Cass Canfield, Bruce Catton, Henry Steele Commager, Carl Haverlin, Alfred A. Knopf, Anne Lofits, Everette Beach Long, Los Angeles times, Allan Nevins, Claiborne Pell, Abraham Ribicoff, Andrew F. Rolle, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Louis Morris Starr, Irving Stone, James Thorpe, Justin G. Turner, Bell Wiley and Daniel Woodward. Subjects covered in the collection include: American heritage, Ray Bradbury, CBS, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Henry E. Huntington Library, Historical Times, Inc., Lyndon B. Johnson, KCET Television Station, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, George S. McGovern, NBC, National Historical Society, New York Times Company, Richard M. Nixon and Watergate, Reader's digest, Ronald Reagan, and the Writer's Guild of America. The collection also includes items about the historians' research including Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant.

ArchivalResource: 426 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317629510 View

David C. Mearns Papers, 1830-1979, (bulk 1940-1967)

Title: David C. Mearns Papers 1830-1979 (bulk 1940-1967)

Librarian and historian. Correspondence, writings, reports, and orders documenting Mearns's positions as an official and historian of the Library of Congress and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 161 containers plus 5 oversize; 65 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012119 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 6; interview conducted by John Lomax III.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1979 June 6; interview conducted by John Lomax III. 1979 June 6.

Former BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about the formation of BMI. Discussion includes Haverlin's career prior to joining BMI; circumstances surrounding the formation of BMI; establishing BMI within an ASCAP dominated environment; ASCAP's reaction to BMI; growth in visibility as BMI songs begin to hit #1; BMI's work to encourage new composers; BMI's role in licensing country, blues, and rock music formats and issues related to rock's lyrics; and their efforts to get more American history into mass media. Interview includes interesting side note as Haverlin recalls his radio communication with Amelia Earhart during her flight from Hawaii to California in the 1930s.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62297596 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985. Reminiscences of Carl Haverlin : oral history, 1963.

Title: Reminiscences of Carl Haverlin : oral history, 1963.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 25 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122569831 View

Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Jine the cavalry / [arrangement by] Harry Partch.

Title: Jine the cavalry / [arrangement by] Harry Partch. 1963.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([3] p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16308181 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985;. Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1974 August 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green.

Title: Oral history interview with Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek; 1974 August 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1974 Aug. 23.

Longtime BMI executives Carl Haverlin and Russell Sanjek talk about the beginning of the BMI organization. Discussion includes a description of the early BMI office environment; experiences establishing BMI in the industry; promoting BMI during the first years of the organization; early BMI contract details; the growth of BMI; comments on how a song becomes a hit; the financial situation for country songwriters prior to BMI; early BMI artists; competition with ASCAP; their career backgrounds; and their experiences during the early years of BMI.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound cassettes (1 hour, 33 minutes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58841221 View

Sheet music by United States publishers, 1790-1986.

Title: Sheet music by United States publishers, 1790-1986.

Collection of sheet music published in the U.S. includes Civil War song sheets, Confederate music, and World War I and World War II music.

ArchivalResource: ca. 20 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510899 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985. The last best hope of earth : an address delivered before the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, in the Library of Congress in the Library of Congress / by Carl Haverlin.

Title: The last best hope of earth : an address delivered before the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, in the Library of Congress in the Library of Congress / by Carl Haverlin. 1960.

ArchivalResource: 12 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16790207 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985. [American composers collection].

Title: [American composers collection]. 1964.

ArchivalResource: [38] p. of ms. music ; in a photo album 38 x 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53130262 View

Kubicek, Earl C. Abraham Lincoln : Lincoln and the theater / [compiled by Earl C. Kubicek].

Title: Abraham Lincoln : Lincoln and the theater / [compiled by Earl C. Kubicek].

Collection contains materials about plays relating to Abraham Lincoln. File on each play includes some but not all of the following: correspondence requesting copies of scripts; scripts; ticket stubs; programs and playbills; publicity and reviews cut from newspapers and magazines; obituaries of actors in these plays; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213468262 View

U.S. presidential autographs, 1795-1985.

Title: U.S. presidential autographs, 1795-1985.

Autograph letters, typescript letters with signatures, statements, and documents from every President of the United States, including a letter from David R. Atchinson, Senator from Missouri, who, because Zachary Taylor would not take the oath of office on a Sunday, was President for a day, March 4, 1849.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155511212 View

Abdullah, Achmed, 1881-1945. Papers of Achmed Abdullah [manuscript] 1929-39.

Title: Papers of Achmed Abdullah [manuscript] 1929-39.

The collection contains mss. of two plays: Broadway interlude, ca. 1929, based on the novel by Abdullah & Faith Baldwin Cuthrell, A woman, a wind, & a ship, by Abdullah and Carl Haverlin; also a certificate 1939 Feb. 23, appointing Abdullah aide-de-camp to Ky. governor Ruby Laffoon & a photograph of an unidentified madonna and child.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948501 View

Famous American autographs, 1681-1924, 1824-1924 (bulk)

Title: Famous American autographs, 1681-1924, 1824-1924 (bulk)

A collection of autographed letters and documents from famous Americans including Susan B. Anthony, John James Audubon, George Bancroft, Henry Ward Beecher, Alexander Graham Bell, Daniel Boone, Edwin Booth, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas A. Edison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Alexander Hamilton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Patrick Henry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, John Paul Jones, Robert E. Lee, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Mann, John Marshall, Samuel F.B. Morse, Thomas Paine, William Penn, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Booker T. Washington, Daniel Webster, Noah Webster, George Westinghouse, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eli Whitney, and Wilbur Wright.

ArchivalResource: 126 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510087 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985. Reminiscences of Carl Haverlin : oral history, 1955.

Title: Reminiscences of Carl Haverlin : oral history, 1955.

Early years in the Southwest; touring with a theatrical troupe, 1916-17; radio in Los Angeles in the 1920s.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 38 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309736780 View

Music, rare editions, 1600-1963.

Title: Music, rare editions, 1600-1963.

Collection of ca. 1,200 rare, manuscript, and first editions of music. Composers include Georges Auric, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, George Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, Muzio Clementi, Claude Debussy, Gaetano Donizetti, Custodio Fernandez Goes, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Charles Gounod, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Charles Ives, Leon Kirchner, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, W.A. Mozart, Ernesto Nazareth, Alberto Nepomuceno, J. Octaviano, Maurice Ravel, Gioacchino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Oscar Straus, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Marcello Tupnyamba, Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanni Viotti, and Richard Wagner. Also, THE PSALMS OF DAVID, the first volume of music printed in America from type, 1767.

ArchivalResource: ca. 28 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155510180 View

Haverlin, Carl, 1899-1985. Carl Haverlin papers relating to Carl Sandburg, 1909-1964 (bulk 1947-1963).

Title: Carl Haverlin papers relating to Carl Sandburg, 1909-1964 (bulk 1947-1963).

This collection consists of the Carl Sandburg files kept by Carl Haverlin spanning the years 1909-1964. The material consists of correspondence, contracts, speeches and poetry by Sandburg, photographs of Sandburg, programs, galley proofs and drafts of writings by Sandburg, and clippings and tear sheets.

ArchivalResource: .7 linear feet (circa 535 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/608555242 View