Lois Steers photographs collection [graphic], circa 1890-1949.

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Lois Steers photographs collection [graphic], circa 1890-1949.

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Photographs of prominent performing artists, circa 1930-1949, collected by Lois Steers, a concert manager from Portland, Or. Subjects include musicians Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Segei Rachmaninoff, and Efrem Zimbalist, among others. Also includes portraits of Lois Steers, taken circa 1890-1899.

0.50 cubic feet (37 photographs in 15 folders).

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6826515

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Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

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An American violinist, Yehudi Menuhin was engaged in 1947 by Two Continent Pictures to appear and play in a projected moving picture named Delirium and an associated short movie; and later for a series of short films. He suggested changes in the script and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto for Delirium, but the picture apparently was not completed, nor were the short films although 22 reels were recorded and photographed. From the description of Letters and other papers relating to ...

Zimbalist, Efrem

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Heifetz, Jascha, 1901-1987

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Kriesler, Fritz, 1875-1962

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Rachmaninoff, Sergei

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The Five etudes-tableaux orchestrated by Respighi are originally from Rachmaninoff's op. 33 and 39 for piano solo. From the description of 5 etudes tableaux / S. Rachmaninoff ; orchestration de Ottorino Respighi. 1930. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092347 Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer and pianist. From the description of Sergei Rachmaninoff letter, New York, to Princess Maria Dimitriv Gagarin, 1942 May 4. (Pennsylvania State University Lib...

Steers, Lois.

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