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Whiteman, Maxwell,. Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

Title: Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

This collection contains a variety of photographic formats including tintypes, lantern slides of Egyptian and Roman architecture, stereographsof 19th century events such as the Chicago World's Fair and scenes of New Hampshire and New York, and a group of 20th century photographs of Afro-American celebrities. The collection also includes scenes of 19th cent. Philadelphia and Schuylkill County; Italian paintings; Russian paintings; portraits of the Lehman family; the architecture of Alhambra, Spain; and the bookbinder, Harry C. Viti. There are photographs of the following individuals; Marjorie A. Costa, Marie Dressler, Lillian Evanti, Katherine Dunham, Eddie Leonard, Bill Kenny, Ethel Levy, Lucky Millinder, Margery Latimer, W.C. Handy, Mary B. Lehman, and John S. Ronig.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122635735 View

Cook, Vivian Elma Johnson, 1889-1977. Vivian Johnson Cook papers, 1903-1977.

Title: Vivian Johnson Cook papers, 1903-1977.

Personal and family papers of Vivian Elma Johnson Cook.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962738 View

National Negro Opera Company Collection, 1879-1997, (bulk 1930-1962)

Title: National Negro Opera Company Collection 1879-1997 (bulk 1930-1962)

The National Negro Opera Company, the first African-American opera company in the United States, was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941, by Mary Cardwell Dawson. The collection contains materials and records related to the company and to Dawson. It includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, photographs, programs, promotional and publicity materials, scrapbooks, clippings, address books, notebooks, costumes, music, and books. In addition, the collection contains materials related to opera singer La Julia Rhea, who performed with the company, and Walter M. Dawson, Mary Cardwell Dawson's husband, who worked for the company.

ArchivalResource: 11,250 items; 68 containers; 39 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu013001 View

Walker-Hill, Helen. Collection. 1887-

Title: Collection. 1887-

Correspondence and research files concerning black women composers, plus files of music scores, photographs, and taped interviews chiefly created during Walker-Hill's research for her book From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music (Greenwood Press, 2002) and her published editions of music by black women composers.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (21.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122273001 View

Evanti, Lillian, 1890-1967. V for victory march / words and music by Lillian Evanti.

Title: V for victory march / words and music by Lillian Evanti. c1942.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([2] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553762 View

Dodson, Owen, 1914-. Owen Dodson papers, 1930-1968.

Title: Owen Dodson papers, 1930-1968.

Includes correspondence, play scripts, two novels, poetry, articles, lectures, workshop material, reviews and programs for Dodson's works and productions, scrapbooks, clippings, prints, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741522194 View

Evanti, Lillian, 1890-1967. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1961-1967.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1961-1967.

ArchivalResource: 13 items (15 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63557762 View

Evanti, Lillian, 1890-1967. Collection, [1925]-1963.

Title: Collection, [1925]-1963.

The collection consists of photographs of Evanti in operatic roles and during visits to Berlin, Mexico, and Brazil; one letter from Owen Dodson of Howard University; and a typescript of the prologue to her autobiography Where my caravan has rested, with handwritten additions.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50507374 View

Evanti, Lillian, 1890-1967. Speak to him Thou / words [by] Alfred Tennyson ; music [by] Lillian Evanti.

Title: Speak to him Thou / words [by] Alfred Tennyson ; music [by] Lillian Evanti. [1943]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([4] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553760 View