Trapp family photograph collection, 1944-1967.

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Trapp family photograph collection, 1944-1967.

1944-1967

http://catalog.vermonthistory.org/V92022/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=3760952

This is an "artificial" collection composed of two sets of images of the Trapp Family Singers of Stowe, Vermont, for the period 1944 through about 1967. The first series in this collection contains photographs and real photo postcards created by the Bicknell Manufacturing Company of Portland and Westbrook, Maine, and American Views, Inc., of New York, New York, probably during the period 1953 through 1967. Twenty-seven of these photographs and postcards are in an album containing a five-digit number and caption information for each photograph. These images include posed portraits of the family, informal photographs of the music camp staff and campers, and photographs of the camps' buildings. The collection includes five folders of 42 postcards taken about the same time as the images in the album. Some of the family portraits are dated January 1960; one of the views of the main building is dated January 1953. Also in the collection are 14 sheet negatives that were used to create some of the images in this collection. Accompanying them are very informal notes about dates and quantities of orders recorded on the sleeves which housed the negatives. The second series is a set of 24 digital copies of photographs taken when Addie Dragunas of Brooklyn, New York, attended the Trapp Family Music Camp in the summers of 1944 and 1945. Twenty of the photographs are snapshots of Addie, Father Franz Wasner (1905-1992) who was the Trapp Family's musical advisor, and groups of campers. Four of the images are postcards, three that include messages from Addie to her family (the fourth postcard was purchased by the donors in 2007 and added to the collection before donation to the VHS). All of the images are in TIF format and are stored on a CD-ROM; seven of the photographs have been printed on photographic paper.

.5 linear feet.

eng, Latn

Vermont Historical Society

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Trapp, Georg von, 1880-1947

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Georg von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who later became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of World War I. His first wife Agathe Whitehead died in 1922, leaving behind seven children. Trapp hired Maria Augusta Kutschera to tutor one of his daughters and married Maria in 1927. When he lost most of his wealth in the Great Depression, the family turned to singing as a way of ...

Trapp family

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The Trapp Family of Austria; headed by former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the interwar period. The family's story later served as the basis for a memoir, two German films, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical The Sound of Music....

Trapp Family Singers

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The Trapp Family Singer were a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the interwar period. They also performed in the United States before emigrating there permanently to escape the deteriorating situation in Austria during World War II. In the United States, they became well known as the "Trapp Family Singers" until they ceased to perform as a unit in 1957. ...

Wasner, Franz

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Dragunas, Addie

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Bicknell Manufacturing Company

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Photographers and manufacturers of frames. From the description of Bicknell Manufacturing Company photographs, undated. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70977711 ...