Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 2009. Sound Recordings Relating to Conservation, ca. 1939 - 1946. Audio Recording of Harold L. Ickes Memorial Service, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 4/20/1952

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Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 2009. Sound Recordings Relating to Conservation, ca. 1939 - 1946. Audio Recording of Harold L. Ickes Memorial Service, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 4/20/1952

1952

This audio recording contains Harold L. Ickes' Memorial Service, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Secretary of the Interior Oscar l. Chapman speaks on Ickes and Marian Anderson sings.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11663834

National Archives at College Park

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Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...