Ernst Bacon Papers, 1933-1986

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Woodward, Ellen Sullivan, 1887-1971

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Ellen Sullivan Woodward (July 11, 1887 – September 23, 1971) was a federal civil servant and a Mississippi state legislator. She served as director of work relief programs for women organized as part of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal in the 1930s and continued to work in the federal government until her retirement in the 1950s. Ellen Sullivan was born in Oxford, Mississippi, on July 11, 1887 to William Van Amberg Sullivan, an attorney who later served as a congressman from Mississipp...

Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965

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Composed 1916-18. The original ms. had a pencilled-in note saying: "This is the only copy anywhere." See note from Mrs. Cowell 19 Nov. 1959: "The first symphony is a student work, and I hope earnestly for it not to be performed." This is a facsimile of the composer's holograph score, according to Bill Lichtenwanger.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony in B minor / Henry Cowell. 1918. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45207014 Compo...

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974

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Poet and suffragist Sara Bard Field lived in Portland in the early part of the twentieth century. Her poetry, her support of women’s suffrage, and her controversial relationship with Charles Erskine Scott Wood, a Portland cultural icon, made an indelible imprint on the history of Oregon. Field was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 1, 1882, to strict Baptist parents. The family moved to Detroit, where, at the age of eighteen, she married the much older Baptist minister Albert Erghott. T...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Cowell, Sidney

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Knight, Lucian W.

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Morris, Lawrence, 1972-

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Mullett, George.

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Williams, H. Glyn.

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Sokoloff, Nikolai, 1886-1965

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Horgan, Paul

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McAdoo, William Gibbs.

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Howell, Ruth

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Hall, Jessie B.

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Weston, Brett

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Wright, Cedric, 1889-1959

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American photographer and musician. Wright considered Bacon and Ansel Adams his closest friends. From the description of Letters to Ernst Bacon, 1928-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500261 Born George Cedric Wright on 13 April 1889 in Alameda, Calif. Wright was a violinist and teacher until 1934, when he took up study of photography with Ansel Adams. From the description of Cedric Wright papers, 1900-1958. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat re...

Skonhoft, Steen.

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Potter, M. L.

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Allen, Elizabeth, 1971-

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Johnson, Mark E.

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Bier, Allan.

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St. John, Edmunds.

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Kasloff, Mischa.

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Hayden, J. Emmet.

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Mason, Daniel Gregory

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Eminent American musician and composer. From the description of Papers, 1894-1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681505 Composed 1935-36. First performance New York, 17 November 1937, New York Philharmonic Society, John Barbirolli conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony no. 3 : Lincoln, op. 35 / Daniel Gregory Mason. 1937. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 50555507 ...

Elson, Elizabeth.

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Pettis, Ashley, 1892-

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Ferrier, Andre.

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MacDowell, Edward, Mrs.

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Berckman, Evelyn

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Hopkins, Harry.

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Liebling, George.

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Sullivan, Noel

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Biography Noël Sullivan was born in San Francisco on December 25, 1890, the youngest child and only son of Frank J. and Alice Phelan Sullivan, the nephew of Senator James D. Phelan, and the grandson of John Sullivan who came west in 1844 with the "Sullivan-Murphy Party." The family was a wealthy and distinguished one. Young Sullivan attended the Jesuit colleges of St. Ignatius and Santa Clara, but his interests were musical, not academic. He ...

Pilling, Roy.

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Zam, Maurice

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Silva, Giulio

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Wadsworth, Ralph G., 1890-

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Bietry-Salinger, Jehanne.

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Davis, George H.

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Fisher, Marjorie M.

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Galkovitch, M. G.

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Bacon, Ernst, 1898-

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Biography Ernst Bacon was born in 1898 in Chicago, but moved to the San Francisco area in the 1920s and soon occupied a prominent role in the musical life of Northern California. Under his directorship, the San Francisco Federal Music Project achieved widespread popular acclaim, as the papers in the collection attest. Many Bay Area citizens and reporters supported Bacon in his conflict with the State and National Directors of the Federal Musi...

Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) George ...

Jones, Isabel Morse

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Ussher, Bruno David

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Bruno David Ussher was born in Germany, and studied musicology with Arnold Schering and Hugo Riemann and philosophy with Oswald Spengler. He spent some years in England, and then moved to Los Angeles in 1919 to write for the "Saturday Night" weekly. He received a D.Mus. from USC in 1934. Ussher was a Los Angeles music critic for many years for different Los Angeles newspapers (Evening Express, Examiner), magazines, and scholarly journals into the 1950s. During the years 1938-1941, his column app...

Frankenstein, Alfred

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Biographical/Historical Sketch San Francisco art critic and lecturer, Department of Art, Stanford University. From the guide to the Alfred Frankenstein papers, 1971-1978, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) ...

Lengyel, Cornel

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Whatmire, W. B.

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Mathias, Phil.

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Search, Frederick Preston

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Frederick Preston Search, 1889-1959, cellist, conductor, and composer, actively identified with the musical life of Carmel, Calif. From the description of Frederick Preston Search collection, 1910-1957. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 38133460 Transcribed 1938 from String Quartet No. 6, composed 1932. First performance Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 20 September 1939, Jack Joy Concert Orchestra, Jack Joy conductor.--Cf. Fleishe...

Rodgers, Bernard.

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Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980

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The music collector Laura Boulton, or musical anthropologist, as she was known in the early days of her fieldwork, recorded some 30,000 musical examples in the course of her 81 years. During a career which took her from hidden corners of the globe to urban centers alike, from royal palaces to tribal huts, she embarked on expedition after expedition at a time when such journeys were considered exotic, dangerous, and beyond the reach of the average traveler. Born in Connea...

San Francisco Federal Music Project.

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Hewes, Harry L.

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Clement, Ada

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Pattison, Lee

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Carl Baermann (9 July 1839 in Munich-17 January 1913) was a pianist who studied with Franz Lachner and Peter Cornelius in Munich and later became a pupil and friend of Franz Liszt. He moved to the Boston area in America in 1881 where he became a successful pianist and teacher; Amy Beach and Frederick Converse were among his pupils. He also composed a number of works for piano solo and with orchestra. Lee Pattison (July 22, 1890, Grand Rapids, Wisconsin - December 22, 1966, Claremont, California)...

Pazmor, Radiana

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Lewis, Janet, 1899-1998

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American writer of many genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and librettos. Many of her friends and correspondents were at one time students or colleagues of Yvor Winters. From the description of Janet Lewis papers, 1964-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122639569 Biographical Note : Yvor Winters Yvor Winters was born in Chicago on October 17, 1900, the son of a stockbroker. As a very young child he moved we...

Gunn, Glenn Dillard, 1874-1963

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Glenn Dillard Gunn, 1874-1963, music critic and pianist; music critic of Chicago tribune, Chicago herald examiner, and Washington times-herald. From the description of Glenn Dillard Gunn collection, 1874-1961 (bulk 1910-1961). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984247 Glenn Dillard Gunn (1874-1963) was a pianist and music critic for the Chicago tribune, Chicago herald examiner, and Washington times-herald. From the description of Glenn Dillard Gunn collection, 1874...

Luening, Ethel

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Stoll, Raisch.

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Erskine, Morse.

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Foote, Ralph M.

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Jervis, Harle.

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