Papers of the Observatory Mountain Orchestra [manuscript], 1932-1938

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Papers of the Observatory Mountain Orchestra [manuscript], 1932-1938

Papers of the Observatory Mountain Orchestra include invitations to performances, newsclippings about orchestra events and competitions, press releases, and correspondence, especially that of Professor Peter Van de Kamp. Correspondents include Arthur Fickénscher, James M. Grainger, Mrs. Oron J. Hale, Lewis M. Hammond, Mrs. John Calvin Metcalf, Robert B. Shackelford, Mrs. Carrol Mason Sparrow, Joseph L. Vaughan, Winston Wilkinson, and Charles K. Woltz.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cappon, Lester Jesse, 1900-1981

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Lester Jesse Cappon (1900-1981) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Jesse Cappon and Mary E. Geisinger Cappon. He studied music, earning a diploma from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 1920, but was also interested in history and earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in 1928. In 1925, Cappon went to the University of Virginia, where he worked on editions of Virginia historical publications and newspapers funded by the...

Hale, Annette F. Van Winkle, d. 1968,

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Fickenscher, Arthur

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Completed 1934. First performance by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Richmond, Va., December 4, 1934, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Out of the gay nineties / Arthur Fickénscher. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51823017 American composer, pianist, teacher, inventor, and University of Virginia professor, 1920-1941. From the description of Papers of Arthur Fickénscher, 1895-1995. (Univers...

Wilkinson, Winston

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Winston Wilkinson is a black Mormon attorney who works for the U.S. Department of Education. From the description of Oral history, 1986-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486644 Winston Wilkinson was hired in 1934, along with John Stone, by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., of the University of Virginia, to transcribe music. (Stone was hired to collect folk songs.) Funding for this activity came from the Civil Works Administration, a New Deal program. Along with his wife, Marie, ...

Sparrow, Lettice Latan e, 1878-1942,

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Vaughan, Joseph Lee

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Professor of Humanities in the School of Engineering; President of the Institute of Technology; Chancellor for Communitiy Colleges; Provost of the University of Virginia. From the description of Joseph L. Vaughan papers [manuscript], 1936-1991. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647907905 From the description of Papers of Joseph L. Vaughan, 1935-1975, 1996. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 59005790 University of Virginia professor. ...

Metcalf, Edmonia Carrington Lancaster.

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Grainger, James

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University of Virginia. Leander McCormick Observatory

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Woltz, Charles K. (Charles Killian), 1914- ,

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Observatory Mountain Orchestra.

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Hammond, Lewis Machen, 1906-

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Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Philosophy; Chairman of the Department of Philosophy; President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology; President of the Episcopal Guild of Scholars; member of the editorial board of the Anglican Theological Review. From the description of Oral history interview of Lewis M. Hammond by Charles E. Moran [manuscript], October 1, 1976. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920759 ...

Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-....

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Astronomer; professor at Swarthmore College for 35 years. Magill Professor of Astronomy and director of the Sproul Observatory in the Netherlands (after retiring from Swarthmore). Died 1995. From the description of Symposium on the galaxy [motion picture] / taken by Peter Van de Kamp, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80779549 From the description of Three conferences on astronomy and cosmology [motion picture] / photographed by Peter Van de Kamp. 1955-1964. (Unknown). Wo...

Shackelford, Robert B. (Robert Baylor), 1881-

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