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Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977. Leopold Stokowski papers, 1916-1994.

Title: Leopold Stokowski papers

Some personal papers of Leopold Stokowski, including correspondence to and from Stokowski, notebooks, calendars, bank statements, royalty statements, insturance records, and contracts; this includes some correspondence and contracts related to Stokowski's tenure as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra (bulk 1937-1946). Also includes writings by and about Stokowski, obituaries, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, awards, memorabilia, and issues of three newsletters devoted to Stokowski.

ArchivalResource: 47 boxes + 1 map drawer.

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W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan sheet music, 1866-1996.

Title: W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan sheet music, 1866-1996.

Printed sheet music of and relating to W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan compositions and productions.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02231/catalog View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Philadelphia County Medical Society. Committee on Archives. Records, 1912-1951.

Title: Records, 1912-1951.

Correspondence, reports, minutes, and newsclippings, 1912-1951, documenting work of Philadelphia County Medical Society's Committee on Archives and its officers, Albert M. Eaton and William N. Bradley, and of society's executive secretary, Franklin M. Crispin.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (6 folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523905 View

Allen, Alfred Reginald 1876-1918. Allen family papers 1837-1971.

Title: Allen family papers 1837-1971.

The Allen family of Philadelphia had its roots in Bristol, United Kingdom. Samuel Allen (sometimes spelled Allan or Allin) came to America in 1681 and settled in what is now known as Chester, Pennsylvania. The Allen family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, albums, newspaper clippings, volumes, manuscripts, ephemera, and artifacts collected first by Dr. Alfred Reginald Allen (1876-1918) and then by his son Alfred Reginald Allen Jr. (1905-1988).Dr. Alfred Reginald Allen was a noted neurologist and neurosurgeon who earned his degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1898. Dr. Allen published a few medical papers and articles mostly about his specialty, injuries of the spinal cord. Dr Allen was also heavily involved in the theater and penned numerous operettas, some of which were published. He was a founding member of the Savoy Opera Company of Philadelphia, which produced the works of Gilbert & Sullivan and still exists to this day. However, Dr. Allen seems to have abandoned his work in the theater in the early part of the twentieth century to focus on his medical career, probably under pressure from his father, Rev. George Pomeroy Allen (1845-1919). In 1904 he married Helen Burgess Warren (1879-1949), daughter of noted architect Ebenezer Burgess Warren (1833-1917). They had two children, twins Alfred Reginald Jr. and Helen Warren Allen II (1905-1954). In 1915 Dr. Allen joined a reserve unit of the United States Army, eventually achieving the rank of major. When the United States joined World War I in 1917 Dr. Allen';s unit was sent to France. He was killed in action in September 1918 during the Battle of Argonne.Alfred Reginald Allen Jr., called Reggie, seems to have pursued the career in arts that his father could not. After graduating from Harvard in the late 1920s Reggie was elected to the board of the Philadelphia Orchestra and became its general manager in 1935. In 1939 he moved to Hollywood, California to work in Universal Pictures'; scenario department. When the United States joined World War II in 1941 Reggie served as a lieutenant commander in Air Combat Intelligence. After the war he returned to Hollywood to work for a British film company called the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. He married Helen Huntington Howe (1916-1975) in 1946. (Helen Howe Allen achieved a certain degree of fame as a novelist and essayist, including having some works that reached the New York Times'; best-seller list. Her papers are currently located in the archives at Radcliffe College.) From the early 1950s to his retirement in 1969 Reggie worked for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Reggie seems to have shared his father';s love of the works of Gilbert & Sullivan in particular. After retiring from the Met he served as curator of the Gilbert & Sullivan Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, maintained a collection of Gilbert & Sullivan memorabilia, and published two books about their operettas. This collection of Allen family papers is rich in personal correspondence, particularly between Dr. Allen and his father in the late nineteenth century, between Dr. Allen and his wife while he was at the Army';s Plattsburg training camp and overseas, and between Reggie and his mother from the 1920s until her death in 1949. There are also numerous photographs and albums in the collection which are mostly family portraits, pictures of their summer holidays on Lake George, New York, and the family';s many travels abroad.There is also a significant amount of genealogical material in the form of historical biographies, family trees and letters. Dr. Allen began doing genealogical research and Reggie it. While Dr. Allen concentrated on the history of the Allens and the Pomeroys, Reggie expanded the research to include the Howes, the DeWolfs, the Huntingtons, and other related lineages. This genealogical research is particularly interesting as all lines of the family were people who settled in America in the 1600s. The Pomeroys in particular were some of the original founders of the town of Dorset, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 23.2 Linear feet, 57 boxes, 13 volumes, 2 flat files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500879047 View