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Williams, Camilla (Mrs. Charles Beaver). Papers. 1944-1979.

Title: Camilla Williams papers, 1944-1975

The papers document the career of Camilla Williams, acclaimed operatic singer and concert artist, in the United States and abroad. The papers encompass 1.2 linear feet, which includes 0.2 linear feet of correspondence (letter, post cards, greeting cards, telegrams) and 1.0 linear foot of non-correspondence, including press releases, publicity notices, notes, foreign itineraries, invitations and collected materials about Williams' travels and about other people. The bulk of the papers date primarily between 1944 and 1975. Correspondence is primarily between Williams and her husband, Attorney Charles T. Beavers, and her mother, Fannie Cary Williams, and other friends and relatives. However, there are also letters of interest from Eleanor Roosevelt and a letter from Father Divine (Reverend Major Jealous Divine). Other correspondents include Raymond Pace Alexander, Dick Campbell, Elmer A. Carter, Norman N. Fromm, Robert Kollitsch, Frederick D. Patterson, Carl Van Vechten, and Robert Wagner. Perhaps the most informative groups of non-correspondence materials are the musical programs and the press clippings. These reveals that Williams tried to feature unusual selections in her recitals, performing such infrequently heard music as that of Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, John Alden Carpenter, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Leo Delibes, Gordon Jacobs, Charles Koechlin, Meyer Kupferman, Gian Francesco Malipierp, Gian-Carlo Saëns, Ludwig Spohr, Howard Swanson, Randall Thompson, and Clarence Cameron White. She also featured arrangements of spirituals and Black folk songs by a number of different persons, including Borislav Bazala, Edward Boatner, William Boatner, Margaret Bonds, Harry Thatcher Burleigh, William L. Dawson, M. Gardner, Roland Hayes, Hall Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson, Camille Nickerson, Florence Price, Noah Ryder, Lily Strickland, John W. Work, and Clarence Cameron White.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 Linear Feet

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New York State War Council. Division of Records. Research and drafts files for the Empire State at War: World War II, 1944-1948.

Title: Research and drafts files for the Empire State at War: World War II, 1944-1948.

This series contains Karl D. Hartzell's research documents, correspondence, interviews, notes, and portions of chapter drafts of his book The Empire State at War: World War II. It provides information regarding the organization and coordination of industry, the population, and the State towards war production and civil defense compiled by Hartzell to assist in the writing of his book.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 cu. ft.

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Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979, 1926-1972

Title: Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979 1926-1972

Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond's father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond's two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions. Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunch, Rufus Clement, J.G. St. Clair Drake, W.E.B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W.C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A.A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter Woodson and Monroe Work.

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes; (84.5 linear ft.)

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