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Association Records., 1904-2009.

Title: Association Records. 1904-2009.

Records of a professional society of music instructors formed to promote music education in Minnesota.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00619.xml View

Oberhoffer, Emil, 1867-1933. Emil Oberhoffer papers, 1895-1933.

Title: Emil Oberhoffer papers, 1895-1933.

Correspondence (1895, 1910-1922), commemorative booklets (1922), and a memorial address (1933) documenting the career of Emil Oberhoffer, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (1903-1922).

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86096266 View

Saint Paul Choral Club. Saint Paul Choral Club scrapbook, 1898-1907.

Title: Saint Paul Choral Club scrapbook, 1898-1907.

Tickets, programs, clippings, some correspondence, and financial records of the St. Paul (Minn.) chorus, with information on the Minneapolis and St. Paul symphony orchestras and the Schubert Club Choral Association of St. Paul.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568510 View

Apollo Club of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Minn.). Club records, 1873-2003.

Title: Club records, 1873-2003.

Club histories and related materials ([1912]-1990); biographical sketches of conductors and accompanists ([194-?], 1964-1967); concert season summaries (1944-1960); minutes (1895-1915, 2001-2002); membership rosters (1926-1971); concert programs (1896-2003); club newsletter, The Apolloite (1928-1946, 1957, 1980-1996); newspaper clippings (1895-2002); certificates and proclamation ([194-], 1958, 2000); and photographs (1991, 2001) of a men's chorus organized in 1895 in Minneapolis, Minn. with Emil Oberhoffer as its first conductor. Other conductors and accompanists have included Henry S. Woodruff, Theodore Bergman, Elsie Wolf Campbell, William Rhys-Herbert, William MacPhail, James S. Allen, and Roger Hoel.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313858209 View

Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, Bulk, 1922-1935, 1892-1957

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs Bulk, 1922-1935 1892-1957

Celebrity photographs (classical music and films) autographed to Ussher in the 1930s; Ussher was a musicologist/music critic.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet; 1 box

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Club records., 1873-2003.

Title: Club records. 1873-2003.

Photocopied and original records of a men's chorus organized in 1895 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00452.xml View

Ussher, Bruno David. Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Photographs of musicians and music celebrties given to Ussher in the 1920s and 1930s. Many are autographed and inscribed. Also included is a score by Edward MacDowell.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700521295 View

Minnesota Music Teachers Association. Association records, 1904-2009.

Title: Association records, 1904-2009.

Records of a professional society of music instructors formed to promote music education in Minnesota. The collection contains the constitution, bylaws, minutes, convention proceedings, correspondence, examinations, directories, calendars, festival programs, newsletters, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials. There is information on conventions, elections, and other routine activities; relations with the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations; proposed legislation, particularly to create a national bureau of fine arts (1939) and national excise tax exemptions for symphony orchestras (1951); examinations given to applicants for membership; and musical education in the public schools. There are publicity files and other materials relating to statewide and regional student concerts hosted by MMTA. Correspondents include several members of Congress and a number of professional musicians, especially Paul M. Oberg and Frances Clark.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 cubic feet (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313839709 View

Minnesota Orchestra. Minnesota Orchestra photographic collection, 1910-

Title: Minnesota Orchestra photographic collection, 1910-

The collection includes photographs, negatives, slides, and transparencies of Minnesota Orchestra music directors, musicians and staff, Orchestra Hall and other venues, and concerts, tours, and other events.

ArchivalResource: 44 boxes (19 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62693327 View

Nash, Frances, 1890-1971. Scrapbooks compiled by Frances Nash, [manuscript] ca.1914-ca.1949.

Title: Scrapbooks compiled by Frances Nash, [manuscript] ca.1914-ca.1949.

The scrapbooks compiled in 1962, contain photographs, news clippings, concert programs, obituaries, and letters documenting Nash's concert career from 1914 to 1949. In correspondence Eleanor Roosevelt thanks Nash for a pot of scotch heather, 1935; Marian McDowell thanks her for playing the MacDowell Concerto in concert, 1935; Nelson Eddy sends thanks for an inauguration medal, 1941; Leopold Stokowski discusses concerts, 1941-42; Samuel Chotzinoff invites her to perform, 1945; Henry Morgenthau, Jr., discusses the National Symphony Trust Fund Board, 1945; Mary Howe thanks her for help, 1945; Frank C. Walker contributes to a cause, 1948; Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., asks her to serve on the Virginia Music Festival Board, 1947; Egon Petri sends family news and invites her to visit, 1949; Bernard Baruch encourages her to play again and thanks her for a Marjorie Mitchell program, 1946, 1958; Also a brief, unsigned note on a card from James A. Farley, n.d.; and a telegram from Serge Koussevitzky requesting a meeting on a "musical matter of immediate urgency," 1942. There are formal portraits of Nash; photographs of Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians; Issay Dobrowen; Hans Kindler; Renâee Longy-Miquelle; Emil Oberhoffer; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Andrâes Segovia (signed magazine print); Edwin M. Watson; Franz Wilczek as well as snapshots of family vacations, pets, and "Kenwood," the family home in Albemarle County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647919694 View

Minnesota Orchestra Photographic Collection, ca. 1910-[ongoing]

Title: Minnesota Orchestra Photographic Collection ca. 1910-[ongoing]

The collection includes photographs, negatives, slides, and transparencies of Minnesota Orchestra music directors, musicians and staff, Orchestra Hall and other venues, and concerts, tours, and other events.

ArchivalResource: 70 boxes

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/mo-11.xml View

William Skinner Cooper papers, 1909-1989

Title: William Skinner Cooper papers 1909-1989

The collection consists of personal and professional papers of William Skinner Cooper, professor of botany at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 3 record boxes, 14 negative boxes, 2 oversize boxes; (16.5 linear feet)

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc01002.xml View

Cooper, William Skinner, 1884-. William Skinner Cooper papers, 1909-1989.

Title: William Skinner Cooper papers, 1909-1989.

The collection consists of personal and professional papers of William Skinner Cooper, Professor of Botany at the University of Minnesota. It contains correspondence, articles, manuscripts, publications, reprints, lectures, photo albums, photographic glass negatives, photographic negatives, photographs, maps and field notes.

ArchivalResource: 3 record boxes, 13 negative boxes, 2 oversize packages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62693247 View