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Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections 1831-1993

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21884 View

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983. [Papers]

Title: [Papers]

The collection consists of letters from Eubie Blake to William D. Smith and Peggy Smith, as well as other materials relating to Eubie Blake collected by the Smiths including sheet music, newspaper clippings, journal articles, concert programs. Also included are letters from Marion Blake, Eubie's wife, to the Smiths and letters from Ivan Harold Browning, a singer and collaborator with Eubie.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229867747 View

Noble Sissle collection, [ca. 1975-ongoing].

Title: Noble Sissle collection, [ca. 1975-ongoing].

Collection contains clipping file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430358913 View

Swingtime at the Savoy : Good Time No. 1 : radio transcript, 1948 July 28

Title: Swingtime at the Savoy : Good Time No. 1 : radio transcript 1948 July 28

Noble Sissle was the moderator, and Langston Hughes the primary author, of this radio transcript for the debut installment of the National Broadcasting Company program, "Swingtime at the Savoy."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (9 p.)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0099_0936 View

Anka, Paul. Musicians Collection, 1727-1981, (bulk 1900-1940).

Title: Musicians Collection, 1727-1981, (bulk 1900-1940).

Consists of ca. 4900 items which are primarily of a visual nature and portray approximately 1700 musicians and musical groups: classical composers, conductors, soloists, and ensembles; big bands and bandleaders; bandmasters; impresarios; vaudeville artists, minstrel show performers, and other variety acts; twentieth-century American musical theater composers; and post-1940 popular singers and musical groups, including country singers. Photographs comprise about 95% of the collection. Other formats present are engravings, lithographs, clippings, concert programs, brochures, booklets, sheet music, vocal and instrumental scores, drawings, paintings, postcards, correspondence, posters, and ephemera. The bulk of the collection consists of publicity photographs, ca. 1900-1940, of vaudeville and variety acts, popular singers, jazz musicians, and brass band-type ensembles. African-American and female musicians represent a substantial portion of the figures covered by these files, especially from the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. A large number of cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite date from this period. Most of the photographs are gelatin silver prints. Other formats include ca. 500 engravings and lithographs of famous composers and classical musicians, 1727-1887 (bulk ca. 1880-1860). Of these, Irish musicians are prominent. About a dozen drawings in charcoal, pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor are present, as well as an oil painting of Beethoven. The great majority of the concert programs in the collection are for classical musicians appearing in New York at Mendelssohn Hall, Aeolian Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Town Hall. Many of the programs for the latter date from late March 1941. Letters in the collection, 1780s-1977 (bulk 1820s-1860s) are chiefly written by classical composers. The manuscript and printed music includes works by several American musicians, including autograph lyrics and music for twenty-eight of Paul Anka's songs, probably from the early 1960s. Published music includes arrangements and piano and vocal scores for compositions by Victor Herbert and Pietro Mascagni. Composite portraits are located at the end of the alphabet, followed by Unidentified and Miscellaneous items. A very small number of items pertain to non-musical subjects (painters, actors, etc.).

ArchivalResource: ca. 4900 items (4000 photographs, 500 prints)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122625161 View

Flournoy Miller collection, 1928-1971, 1941-1951

Title: Flournoy Miller collection 1928-1971 1941-1951

Flournoy Miller (1889-1971) was an actor, comedian, playwright, lyricist and producer. Collection contains personal papers that include biographical information and correspondence; professional papers, including contracts, memberships, writings and production files.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear feet; 2 archival boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20858 View

Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983. Dixie moon / [by Sissle & Blake].

Title: Dixie moon / [by Sissle & Blake]. [193-?]

ArchivalResource: 16 parts ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776806216 View

Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Title: Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Scores and papers of Americanconductor, arranger, and composer Johnny Green.

ArchivalResource: 104 containers (111 linearft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02074/catalog View

Europe, James Reese, 1881-1919. James Reese Europe collection, 1847-1996

Title: James Reese Europe collection, 1847-1996

The collection primarily consists of photocopied secondary sources, newspaper clippings, and programs collected by James R. Europe, Jr. to document his father's accomplishments. The contents also include bibliographies, magazine articles, a chronology of the Europe family from 1847 to 1947, a folder of WWI records, with Europe's military discharge records, a certified copy of the incorporation of the Clef Club of New York City, the "Memoirs of Lieutenant Jim Europe," by Noble Sissle, 1920, (which are actually reminiscences about Europe by Sissle and housed in the Manuscripts collection at LC), and excerpts from a biography, "James Reese Europe: A Life in Racetime" written by Reid Badger, in 1995.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft. (1 1/2 archival boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79408776 View

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Title: Hatch-Billops Collection of oral histories, [ca. 1965-1980].

Audio tapes and transcripts of oral history interviews with black artists, educators, writers, and politicians. Interviewees include Imamu Amiri Baraka, Alvin Batista, Camille Billops, Charles Blackwell, Vivian Brown, Dick Campbell, Steve Carter, Miriam Colon, Ivan Dixon, Mary Bohanan, Owen Dodson, David DuBois, Lonne Elder III, Alice Childress, Robert Earl Jones, Elma Lewis, Butterfly McQueen, Loften Mitchell, Karl Hampton Porter, Noble Sissle, Benny Andrews, Miller Lyles, and Sissle Blake. Among the topics discussed are the American Educational Theatre Association, Black Drama Pioneers, National Association of Media Women, NYCC Black Artists in America, Public Theater, the Black Arts Movement, American Negro Theatre, Cotton Club, Lafayette Theater, and such individuals as Eubie Blake, James Baldwin (1924-1987), W.E.B. Du Bois, Roland Hayes, and Paul Robeson. Transcripts are available for most of the more than one hundred interviews.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155502872 View

Blake and Sissle collection, [ca. 1933-ongoing].

Title: Blake and Sissle collection, [ca. 1933-ongoing].

Collection contains photograph and publicity files.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430358398 View

Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. Bertha Blue family papers, 1908-1989.

Title: Bertha Blue family papers, 1908-1989.

Consists of Bertha Blue's art course notebook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, St. John African Methodist Episcopal newsletters, scrapbooks, and Jane Lee Darr's resume and writings. The collection also contains newspaper clippings on Blue's friend, Noble Sissle.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42768884 View

Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958. W.C. Handy collection, 1914-1954.

Title: W.C. Handy collection, 1914-1954.

Collection of documents relating to W. C. Handy and the Handy Brothers Music Company.

ArchivalResource: .3 lin. ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615627 View

Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971. Flournoy Miller collection, 1928-1971 1941-1951.

Title: Flournoy Miller collection, 1928-1971 1941-1951.

The Flournoy Miller Papers, 1928-1971, document Miller's life as a scriptwriter, producer and entertainer. The collection consists of two series, Personal Papers and Professional Papers, and includes correspondence, contracts, scripts and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 8 lin. in. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122408202 View

W.C. Handy collection, 1914-1954

Title: W.C. Handy collection 1914-1954

Composer; cornetist; bandleader and publisher, W.C. Handy's fame rests upon his work as a composer. Handy wrote and published more than 150 songs and arrangements of folksongs, mainly spirituals and blues. The popularity of Handy's songs helped to make black folk blues a permanent part of America's popular music. Collection of documents relating to W. C. Handy and the Handy Brothers Music Company. Included is correspondence from Handy and his friends, programs, broadsides and invitations related to affairs honoring Handy. Also, printed material advertising publications by Handy's music and publishing companies, and a 28 page bio-bibliography, "Negro Authors and Composers of the United States" by Handy.

ArchivalResource: .3 lin. ft. (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20688 View

Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture AR. 2001. 020., 1980-2003., 1950-2003.

Title: Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture 1980-2003. 1950-2003.

Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture is an eclectic collection of artifacts and documents reflecting a half-century of African American cultural history.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/aushc/00014/00014-P.html View

William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1916-1962

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite Papers 1916-1962

Papers of the African-American poet, author, critic. Correspondence, and manuscripts by Braithwaite and others. Notable correspondents include Arna Bontemps, Louis Bromfield, Sterling Brown, Marie Bullock, Witter Bynner, Cass Canfield, Bliss Carman, Bennet Cerf, Katherine Chapin, James Cozzens, Countee Cullen, Gustav Davidson, W.E.B. DuBois, Kimball Flaccus, Robert Frost, Claire and Nina Gerbaulet, Louis Ginsberg, Hermann Hagedorn, Leigh Hanes, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, Langston Hughes, Georgia Johnson, MacKinlay Kantor, Joseph Joel Keith, Florence Lennon, Benjamin Mays, David McCord, Marianne Moore, Maurice Peloubet, Bliss Perry, Minerva Perry, Helen Channing Pollock, Ruby Altizer Roberts, Paul Robeson, Angelo Schmuller, Lulu Schultz, George S. Schuyler, Delmore Schwartz, Eli Siegel, Jules Siegel, Noble Sissle, Chard Powers Smith, Vladimir Sokoloff, Arthur Spingarn, Jesse Stuart, A.M. Sullivan, May Swenson, Ridgely Torrence, Carl Van Vechten, George Sylvester Viereck, Harold Vinal, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Weaver, John Hall Wheelock, Margaret Widdemer, William Carlos Williams, and Roscoe Wright.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/braithwaite_ws.htm View

James Reese Europe collection, 1847-1996

Title: James Reese Europe collection 1847-1996

The collection primarily consists of photocopied secondary sources, newspaper clippings, and programs collected by James R. Europe, Jr. to document his father's accomplishments. The contents also include bibliographies, magazine articles, a chronology of the Europe family from 1847 to 1947, a folder of WWI records, with Europe's military discharge records, a certified copy of the incorporation of the Clef Club of New York City, the "Memoirs of Lieutenant Jim Europe," by Noble Sissle, 1920, (which are actually reminiscences about Europe by Sissle and housed in the Manuscripts collection at LC), and excerpts from a biography, "James Reese Europe: A Life in Racetime" written by Reid Badger, in 1995.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft. (1 1/2 archival boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20906 View

Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122363936 View

Negro Actors Guild of America. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1938-1977.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1938-1977.

ArchivalResource: 22 items (35 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63560344 View