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Odell, Rosemary. Costume design for The Brass bottle (motion picture), 1963.

Title: Costume design for The Brass bottle (motion picture), 1963.

Costume design in watercolor for the genie played by Burl Ives in Universal Studio's The The Brass Bottle.

ArchivalResource: 1 drawing : color ; 33 cm. x 46 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/704933595 View

Plaut, Frederick, 1907-1985. The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

Title: The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Archives consist mainly of negatives, contact sheets, and enlargements of photographs taken by Fred Plaut during his years as a recording engineer for Columbia Records. Over 35,000 negatives and 3,600 enlargements portray musicians, writers, actors, artists, and diplomats, both in candid studio shots and posed publicity photos. An additional 23,000 negatives and 2,000 enlargements depict travel and miscellaneous subjects. The Archives contain books, magazines, posters, and record jackets which reproduce Plaut's photographs. The Archives also house correspondence between the Plauts and various composers, including Francis Poulenc, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, and Henri Sauguet. The Plauts' life and work are documented further by exhibit announcements, recital programs of Rose Plaut (known as singer Rose Dercourt), and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702189207 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. Burl Ives papers, 1931-1978.

Title: Burl Ives papers, 1931-1978.

Papers of Burl Ives, 1909-1995, the prominent American actor, writer, and musician. Originally from Jasper County Illinois, Ives became famous for his folk ballads in the 1940s and went on to win an Acadamy Award for his film acting in the 1950s. He acted in Broadway, television, radio, and film, and he recorded over 100 music albums. The collection includes song lyrics, manuscripts, and galleys; business and personal correspondence; clippings; business and financial records; programs; scrapbooks; photographs; tape, album, master recordings, and molds; and numerous articles of clothing and artifacts, including costumes from some of his films.

ArchivalResource: 41 linear feet (50 boxes),1 linear feet photographs (1 box),360 tape recordings,620 disc recordings,169 clothing articles, and21 artifacts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/621068365 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. [The wayfaring stranger's notebook : notes and preliminary drafts / Burl Ives].

Title: [The wayfaring stranger's notebook : notes and preliminary drafts / Burl Ives]. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 3 folders ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517100 View

Spewack, Samuel and Bella. Papers, ca.1920-1980.

Title: Papers, ca.1920-1980.

Correspondence, manuscripts, playscripts, screenplays, diaries, documents, contracts, financial records, photographs, phonograph records, motion pictures, playbills, posters, sheet music, cartoons, art work, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed materials. .

ArchivalResource: 72 linear ft (ca.75,000 items in 150 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122343400 View

Oral history tapes, 1969-1977.

Title: Oral history tapes, 1969-1977.

Recorded interviews with sailors, seamen familiar with ships owned by the Museum, and others involved with Port of New York. Some tapes record sea chanties sung by Burl Ives.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155491170 View

Samuel and Bella Spewack Papers, ca.1920-1980

Title: Samuel and Bella Spewack Papers, ca.1920-1980

ArchivalResource: 72 linear ft (ca.75,000 items in 150 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079732 View

Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection, 1935-1950

Title: Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection 1935-1950

The Woody Guthrie manuscript collection includes unpublished correspondence, most are letters from Guthrie to Alan Lomax, assistant in charge of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress, dated 1940-1942; plus drawings; essays; song lyrics; and a songbook, "Songs of Woody Guthrie."

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af001001 View

Burl Ives collection, 1923-1992.

Title: Burl Ives collection, 1923-1992.

This collection chiefly consists of personal items such as clothing and accessories, including some film and television costumes and props. The collection also contains artifacts, photographs, awards, programs and ephemera, and audio and video recordings.

ArchivalResource: ca. 120 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/289024003 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. A wayfarer's notebook / Burl Ives.

Title: A wayfarer's notebook / Burl Ives. [1962]

ArchivalResource: 356 leaves in various pagings : ill. ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122430166 View

Costume designs for Burl Ives, 1959.

Title: Costume designs for Burl Ives, 1959.

Two costume designs in watercolor for Burl Ives in Day of the Outlaw.

ArchivalResource: 2 drawings : color ; 27 cm. x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777014576 View

Frederick R. Koch collection of photographs of stage and screen actors and entertainers, ca. 1920-1979.

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection of photographs of stage and screen actors andentertainers, ca. 1920-1979.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linearft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02003/catalog View

Southern Folklife Collection Artist Name File, 1940-2005

Title: Southern Folklife Collection Artist Name File, 1940-2005

The materials in this collection were compiled from various sources by Southern Folklife Collection staff, with the goal of creating a reference resource to aid in research. Artist name files contain correspondence, booklets, obituaries, press releases, discographies, promotional materials, and other items relating to many of the artists whose work is relevant to the Southern Folklife Collection as a whole.

ArchivalResource: Items: About 3,200; Linear Feet: 21.0

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/30005/ View

Burl Ives papers, 1913-1975

Title: Burl Ives papers 1913-1975

Burl Ives was a singer, an author and a film, television and theater actor from the late 1930s through the 1980s. This collection contains material from 1913 through 1975, but the majority of the materials are from the 1950s and 1960s. The materials in the collection cover the various aspects of Ives’ professional career.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet; 49 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21784 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. Burl Ives collection, 1940-1960.

Title: Burl Ives collection, 1940-1960.

The bulk of the materials concerns Ives' career in radio and television. A considerable number of sound recordings and kinescopes of television appearances, necessary is housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Other materials relating to Burl Ives are housed in the Archive of Folk Culture. The collection is divided into four series: biographical materials, a large subject file, photograph albums, and scrapbooks. The original order as determined by Burl Ives and his wife, Helen Ives, who served as his business manager, is preserved in the organization of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear ft. (16 boxes, ca. 1,600 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71060103 View

Gabler, Lee,. Milt Gabler Collection, 1928-2006, undated.

Title: Milt Gabler Collection, 1928-2006, undated.

The Milt Gabler Collection spans the years 1928 to 2006, with the bulk of the material dating between 1938 and 1969. The collection's primary focus is Gabler's career as founder of Commodore Records and as an artists and repertoire (A & R) executive for Decca Records. The collection includes material related to the Commodore Music Shop and Gabler's Commodore Records years; artist files for those under contract with Decca Records and including photocopies of artists' cards, package information memoranda, label copy, handwritten notes, lyrics, lists of recordings, royalty statements, correspondence, and record personnel sheets; lyrics and sheet music composed by Gabler, much of which is handwritten; and correspondence between the Commodore Music Shop and its customers, which illustrates the enthusiasm with which records released on the Commodore label were received by the public. Additionally, the collection includes some of Gabler's personal files, including awards, clippings, interview and radio transcripts, and some promotional material, as well as printed and audiovisual material. The printed materials relate to jazz and early rock and roll and include periodicals, newspapers, programs, and sheet music. Audiovisual materials in the collection include 1/4-inch audiotapes. Viewed as a whole, the Milt Gabler Collection documents Gabler's influence on the popularity of swing-era jazz and early rock and roll, as well as his success as a record store owner, record producer, and songwriter.

ArchivalResource: 7.59 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779851730 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Title: Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk)

Papers of American author, Gore Vidal (1925-), including literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, political papers, legal and business records, and other material. Also includes papers of his companion, Howard Austen (1929-2003).

ArchivalResource: 414 linear feet (449 boxes, cartons, and film reels)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01943/catalog View

Ambassador Auditorium Collection, 1974-1995

Title: Ambassador Auditorium Collection 1974-1995

The Ambassador Auditorium Collection contains the files of the various organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings. The materials cover the entire time period of April 1974 through May 1995 when the Ambassador Auditorium was fully operational as an internationally recognized concert venue. The materials in this collection cover all aspects of concert production and presentation, including documentation of the concert artists and repertoire as well as many business documents, advertising, promotion and marketing files, correspondence, inter-office memos and negotiations with booking agents. The materials are widely varied and include concert program booklets, audio and video recordings, concert season planning materials, artist publicity materials, individual event files, posters, photographs, scrapbooks and original artwork used for publicity. Many of the print materials include handwritten comments from office personnel and administrators, and many of the artist photographs are autographed. Since the various office personnel maintained their own files, and the same information was often needed in more than one office at a time, the collection contains duplicate copies of many items. Although efforts were made to eliminate duplicate material from the same file or the same series, duplicate copies of items exist among the files from different offices. In an effort to maintain the original content of these files, the cross-file duplicate items were retained in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 636; containers of various sizes with multiple types of print materials, photographic materials, audio and video materials, realia, posters and original art work (682.05 linear feet).

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3q2nf194 View

Henry Cowell collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording], 1940-1953

Title: Henry Cowell collection of noncommercial recordings [sound recording] 1940-1953

These noncommercial music and spoken word recordings were collected by Henry Cowell and primarily consist of his own compositions and lectures, as well as numerous field recordings of folk and ethnic music. Additional recordings contain music by modern Western composers, including unique recordings of works by John J. Becker.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20469 View

Southern Folklife Collection song folios, circa 1882-1983.

Title: Southern Folklife Collection song folios, circa 1882-1983.

Song folios from the United States, Canada, Australia, and England, circa 1882-1983. Some folios were published by radio stations, including WSM in Nashville, Tenn., and WWVA in Wheeling, W. Va. Musical genres and song styles represented include calypso, comedy songs, country songs, cowboy songs, gospel songs, Hawaiian songs, hobo songs, hymns, Irish reels, labor songs, Latin-American songs, minstrel songs, Mormon songs, novelty songs, parodies, popular songs, spirituals, songs of the Industrial Workers of the World, traditional songs, union songs, vaudeville, western songs, and World War II songs. Significant persons and groups are listed below.

ArchivalResource: 755 items (10.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70137640 View

Burl Ives typescript of The Football Game (MS 117), n.d.

Title: Burl Ives typescript of The Football Game (MS 117) n.d.

"The Football Game" typescript by Burl Ives

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=couspcms117.xml View

Bowles, Michael, 1909-. [Irish songs / collected by Burl Ives ; edited with new piano accompaniments by Michael Bowles].

Title: [Irish songs / collected by Burl Ives ; edited with new piano accompaniments by Michael Bowles]. c1956.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder of ms. music ; 39 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24087570 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Title: Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Collection consists chiefly of letters from eminent Americans in response to Margaret Ligon's request for tributes to Carl Sandburg on his seventy-fifth birthday.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807768 View

MacKinlay Kantor Papers, 1885-1977, (bulk 1920-1970)

Title: MacKinlay Kantor Papers 1885-1977 (bulk 1920-1970)

Novelist and author. Correspondence, diaries, drafts and galleys of playscripts, poems, songs, and fiction and nonfiction books, tearsheets, dictation and interview transcripts, notes, research materials, descriptive inventories of personal papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, printed material, scrapbooks, publicity and promotional records, maps, book illustrations, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Kantor's literary career.

ArchivalResource: 50,000 items; 158 containers plus 2 oversize; 65 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008071 View

Solon J. Buck Papers, 1778-1962, (bulk 1934-1957)

Title: Solon J. Buck Papers 1778-1962 (bulk 1934-1957)

Historian and archivist. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, drafts of speeches and writings, subject files, financial papers, bibliographies, and research material relating primarily to Buck's career at the National Archives and Library of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items; 50 containers plus 3 oversize; 21.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010190 View

Milt Gabler Papers

Title: Milt Gabler Papers

The collection documents Gabler's involvement in the recording industry and the evolution of Commodore Records. The documentation begins with the Commodore Radio Shop through its evolution to Commodore Music Shop. The collection also includes the beginnings of the Commodore record label and information detailing Gabler's 30 years as staff producer and later Vice-President in Charge of Artists and Repertoire at Decca Records (1941-1974). There is a small collection of black and white photographs chronicling the early years at the Commodore Music Shop, as well as jam sessions, often held at Jimmy Ryan's on 52nd Street. The collection also includes a vast array of audio recordings (mainly audiodiscs).

ArchivalResource: 25 Cubic feet (75 boxes )

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep844dc4ee2-1f0b-43c1-9566-5dc6b5b62ee2 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. [Letter] 1955 August 8, New York [to] Mrs. Carl L. Cleaver, New York / Burl Ives.

Title: [Letter] 1955 August 8, New York [to] Mrs. Carl L. Cleaver, New York / Burl Ives.

Accepts invitation.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8404155 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

Senz, Edward. Papers, 1929-1973.

Title: Papers, 1929-1973.

Collection contains correspondence (1929-1972) including letters from Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and numerous actors and actresses; invitations, programs and other memorabilia of the 1965 presidential inauguration; photographs and negatives; news releases, pamphlets, scripts, and speeches regarding beauty advice and make-up techniques; newspaper and magazine clippings; scrapbooks; and miscellaneous other materials.

ArchivalResource: 6.4 cubic ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30472107 View

Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977. Letters, 1934-1973.

Title: Letters, 1934-1973.

Concerning his many works at various stages of production from the manuscript to the published version; mentioning the writing of others, including that of fellow Iowans Ruth Suckow and Jay Sigmund; discussing travel plans.

ArchivalResource: 86 items (102 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233121203 View

Ives, Burl, 1909-1995. Burl Ives papers, 1913-1975.

Title: Burl Ives papers, 1913-1975.

The Burl Ives papers contain mainly professional files, pertaining to all aspects of his career.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (49 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84646953 View

Plaut, Frederick, 1907-1985. The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

Title: The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Archives consist mainly of negatives, contact sheets, and enlargements of photographs taken by Fred Plaut during his years as a recording engineer for Columbia Records. Over 35,000 negatives and 3,600 enlargements portray musicians, writers, actors, artists, and diplomats, both in candid studio shots and posed publicity photos. An additional 23,000 negatives and 2,000 enlargements depict travel and miscellaneous subjects. The Archives contain books, magazines, posters, and record jackets which reproduce Plaut's photographs. The Archives also house correspondence between the Plauts and various composers, including Francis Poulenc, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, and Henri Sauguet. The Plauts' life and work are documented further by exhibit announcements, recital programs of Rose Plaut (known as singer Rose Dercourt), and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122542549 View