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...

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...

Davis, George Henry, 1948-

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Pazmor, Radiana

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Clement, Ada

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Sullivan, Noelle

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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...

Ferrier, André

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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...

Liebling, George.

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Stoll, Raisch.

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McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

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Lawyer, business executive, Democratic Party leader, U.S. secretary of the treasury, Director General of Railroads, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers of William Gibbs McAdoo, 1786-1941 (bulk 1880-1941). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063506 McAdoo was born near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, on Oct. 31, 1863; attended the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; admitted to TN bar in 1885 and began law practice in Chattanooga, TN; moved to NYC, 1892; devel...

Foote, Ralph A.

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Johnson, Mark Edward, 1970-

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Hayden, J. Emmet.

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Biétry-Salinger, Jéhanne.

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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...

Horgan, Paul, 1903-

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Paul Horgan. Photo by Cynthia Farah Haines. Part of Writers of the Southwest Collection. PICT 986-008. Paul Horgan was born August 1903, in Buffalo, New York. His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1914, due to his father's poor health. Horgan attended New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), in Roswell, N.M. 1919-1923. Relocated to Rochester, N.Y., after the death of his father in 1923, Horgan attended the Eastman School of Music. In 1926 he returned to Roswell to ...

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...

Weston, Brett

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American photographer and sculptor, 1911-1993. From the description of Brett Weston : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 680714885 ...

Williams, Cyril G. (Cyril Glyndwr)

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Whatmire, W. B.

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MacDowell, Edward, Mrs.

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Elson, Elizabeth, 1914-

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Pettis, Ashley, 1892-

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Kasloff, Mischa.

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Lengyel, Cornel Adam

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Lengyel was born on Jan. 1, 1915 in Fairfield, CT; was editor, Federal Writers' Project, 1936-37; music critic for Coast (San Francisco), 1938-41; censor, Office of Censorship, San Francisco, 1942; shipwright and personnel interviewer, Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, CA, 1943-44; manager, Forty-Niner Theatre, Georgetown, CA, 1946-49; editor, W.H. Freeman Co., 1952-54; founder and executive editor of Dragon's Tooth Press in 1970; visiting professor and lecturer, Sacramento State College, 1962-63; has...

Mathias, Philip, 1936-

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Hewes, Harry L.

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Hopkins, Harry L.

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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...

San Francisco Federal Music Project.

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St. John, Edmunds.

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Allen, Elizabeth Cheresh, 1951-....

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Luening, Ethel

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Frankenstein, Alfred 1906-1990

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San Francisco art critic and lecturer, Department of Art, Stanford University. From the description of Alfred Frankenstein papers, 1971-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 701211535 ...

Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944

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Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in thePacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez Percé Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degrees, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, ...

Skonhoft, Steen.

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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...

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...

Wadsworth, Ralph G., 1890-

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Bier, Allan.

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Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990

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Ernst Bacon, 1898-1990, was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. From the description of Papers, 1962-1976 (inclusive), 1972-1976 (bulk). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122639945 From the guide to the Ernst Bacon papers, 1962-1976 (inclusive, 1972-1976, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Composed 1937. First performance Chicago, 5 February 1940, Illinois Symphony Orchestra of the Works Progress Administration, the compos...

Erskine, Morse.

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Morris, Lawrence.

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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)...

Galkovitch, M. G.

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Potter, M. L.

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Sokolov, Nikolai, 1886-

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Hall, Jessie Tweeddale

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Fisher, Marjorie M.

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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 ...

Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995

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Henry Cowell was an American composer; his wife, Sidney Cowell, was an ethnomusicoloist. From the description of Anniversary pieces [list] : music by Henry Cowell for his wife, 1941-1965, 1979. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122431873 From the description of Cowell family music box [list], 1979. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122532987 Sidney Robertson Cowell (b. June 2,1903, in San Francisco, California; d. February 23, 1995, in Shad...

Rodgers, Bernard F., 1947-....

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Knight, Lucian Lamar, 1868-1933

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Lucian Lamar Knight wrote many works on many aspects of the history of Georgia and was the first State Historian. Shortly before his death, he donated his 3000-volume personal library to South Georgia Teachers College. From the description of Photographic portrait, 1933. (Georgia Southern University). WorldCat record id: 57408607 in Atlanta on February 9, 1868, to Clara Corinne Daniel and George Walton Knight. He attended the University of Georgia and graduated with honors i...

Zam, Maurice

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Pilling, Roy.

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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 ...

Mullett, George.

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Howell, Ruth Frances

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Silva, Giulio

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Jervis, Harle.

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Jones, Isabel Morse

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Berckman, Evelyn

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From the ballet with libretto by Mary Borland. Composed 1936. First performance Irvine Auditorium, Philadelphia, 9 February 1937, Civic Symphony Orchestra of the W.P.A., Guglielmo Sabatini conductor, with the Mary Binney Dancers.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Dances from County fair (ballet) / Evelyn Berckman. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 42890581 Composed ca. 1927. First performance Rochester, New York, 29 April 1927, Ro...