Lehigh Music Festival 1949. 1949.

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Lehigh Music Festival 1949. 1949.

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Lehigh Music Festival 1949 contains 96 photographs and a scrapbook primarily devoted to the 1949 festival, although several clippings describing the 1948 and 1950 festivals are also included in the collection. The photographs depict the process of developing and performing the production. The scrapbook consists mainly of newspaper clippings, a script, programs, tickets, forms, and other ephemera.

2 boxes 1 linear foot.

Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7078392

Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

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