Nesta Smith collection, 1932-1963.

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Nesta Smith collection, 1932-1963.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61190841

This collection contains material from the Hull-House Music School and includes printed programs, flyers, brochures, newspaper articles, and photographs of the annual Christmas tableaux, performances, and interior scenes.

0.25 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7793629

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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Hull-House. Music School (Chicago, Ill.)

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Smith, Nesta, 1900-1998.

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Violinist Nesta Smith (1900-1998) taught at the Hull-House Music School and acted as its director from 1943-1967. The Hull-House Music School was founded in 1893 in the world-famous Hull-House settlement house. The school offered a wide array of educational and performance opportunities to poverty-stricken immigrants and their children on the Near West Side of Chicago. Music School activities included private lessons, chamber music classes, choruses, a concert band, and a symphony orchestra. The...