Records, 1926-1995.

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Records, 1926-1995.

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Papers of a Wisconsin organization founded in 1916 to encourage lifelong music education and appreciation, including correspondence, minutes, reports, address books, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, and pamphlets. The collection focuses on organizational records (primarily minutes and correspondence), project records for the Musical Equipment for Servicemen Project (1941-1945) which includes correspondence from U.S. servicemen, records on the Music in Hospitals Project (1944- ), and materials from a folk music archives project which include a folk music survey, bibliographies of folk music collections, folk music transcriptions and recordings, and folk music scores and songbooks. Individuals with work included in the collection are Bertine Larson, John Moulding, H. H. Rader, Elias Howe, Mary Agnes Starr, and Mrs. D. S. MacKinnon. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1926-1964, and is described below. Additional accessions date 1926-1995 and are described in the register.

5.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes and 5 flat boxes) and3 tape recordings; plusadditions of 10.1 c.f.,91 photographs,8 transparencies, and2 tape recordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925462

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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MacKinnon, D. S., Mrs.

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Howe, Elias, 1819-1867

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Elias Howe (b. July 9, 1819, Spencer, MA–d. October 3, 1867, Brooklyn, NY) began his career as an apprentice in textile factory in Lowell, MA before working as a mechanic with carding machinery He then apprenticed with master mechanic Ari Davis and it was there he began to work on his sewing machine. Howe was not first to think of sewing machine, but he made specific refinements and awarded patent for it in 1846 for a lockstitch design. During the Civil War, he served as private with the 17th Co...

Starr, Mary Agnes

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Music in Hospitals Project.

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Larson, Bertine.

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Musical Equipment for Servicemen Project.

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Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs.

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Moulding, John.

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Rader, H. H.

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