Correspondence of Josiah K. Lilly concerning the formation of the Foster Hall Collection, 1930-1944.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Correspondence of Josiah K. Lilly concerning the formation of the Foster Hall Collection, 1930-1944.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53086347

Collection of papers and correspondence that document Josiah K. Lilly's acquisition of the music and other materials of Stephen Collins Foster. Lilly's actual collection of Foster material, known as the Foster Hall Collection, is housed at the Center for American Music in the Stephen Foster Memorial, University of Pittsburgh.

37 cu. ft.

University of Pittsburgh

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7664425

University of Pittsburgh

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Lilly, Josiah Kirby, 1861-1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z03nh7 (person)

Foster, Stephen Collins

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d79gr1 (person)

Stephen Collins foster was born in Pittsburgh in 1826. He wasnaturally inclined to music and he wrote over one hundred and seventy songs in his short life. He traveled to New Orleans and New York to compose music but still came back to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1864. From the description of Stephen Foster Collins collection 1931-1932 [typescripts]. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48010401 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchest...

Stephen Foster Memorial (University of Pittsburgh)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf1105 (corporateBody)

University of Pittsburgh. Center for American Music

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tf6xsh (corporateBody)

Stephen Collins Foster was born the ninth child of William Barclay Foster, a businessman and sometime politician, and Eliza Clayland Tomlinson. Though neither parent was musical, their daughters' education in voice and piano and Mrs Foster's subscriptions to literary magazines brought music and poetry into the home. The details of his life and career are sketchy. His first biography, an introduction to a collected edition of his songs, written by his brother Morrison (1896), offered impressions ...