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Papers, 1974-1997.

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Files on a number of musicians and composers, often including correspondence, used mainly to compile her biographical dictionary; files from her tenure at Harvard; miscellaneous academic and professional correspondence arranged by name of correspondent and then by date; files of materials concerning the Hyers Sisters and early African American drama used for her editions of Out of Bondage and Peculiar Sam, Or, The Underground Railroad published as volume 9 of the series Nineteenth-Century American Music Theater (Garland Publishing,1994); a collection of historical photographs used to compile her book Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, co-authored with Josephine Wright (Garland Publishing, 2000); a collection of photographs of musicians and performers for publication in BPiM; photographs taken during trips to Africa; a collection of taped interviews, some of which were published in BPiM, and a file of letters from composer, bandleader and publisher W. C. Handy to composer William Grant Still (1935-1958), also published in BPiM; a collection of sheet music by African American composers including photocopies of nineteenth-century published music.

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Columbia College Chicago

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Handy, W. C., 1873-1958

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Southern, Eileen 1920-

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