Mary Cardwell Dawson Papers 1916-2001 [manuscript]

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Mary Cardwell Dawson Papers 1916-2001 [manuscript]

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The Mary Cardwell Dawson Papers contains newspaper clippings, programs, posters, correspondence, and receipts. Series I, Personal Materials (1916-1999), includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, receipts, cancelled checks, programs, awards, autograph book, address books, a book, and an important paper holder. Series II, Professional Activities and Organizations (1935-2001), consists of newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, and other papers on the Cardwell Dawson Choir, Dawson Art Guild, National Association of Negro Musicians, National Negro Opera Company, and National Negro Opera Foundation. Series III, Topical Folders (1935-2001), contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, interviews, articles from the internet, business cards, and programs.

1.50 linear ft.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7956931

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Heinz History Center Detre Library and Archives

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Cardwell School of Music (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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Dawson Art Guild (New York, N.Y.)

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Anderson, Marianne, 1955-

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National Negro Opera Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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National Association of Negro Musicians

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Cardwell Dawson Choir (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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Dawson, Mary Cardwell, 1894-2001.

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Mary Cardwell Dawson was a talented opera singer and impresario active in the Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. area. She was born on February 14, 1894 in Madison, North Carolina, to Abraham and Elizabeth Cardwell. She set up the Cardwell School of Music in Homewood, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh. She also established the Cardwell Dawson Choir, which performed at both the Chicago and New York Worlds Fairs. In 1941, Dawson created the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC), developed to inspire and moti...

Dawson, Mary Cardwell, 1894-1962

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Opera director, concert singer, teacher, conductor and impresario, Dawson was the founder, president and general manager of the National Negro Opera Company. Formed in 1941 due to Dawson's concern regarding the lack of opportunity for Afro-Americans in opera because of racial discrimination, for over 20 years the Company presented such productions as Verdi's Aida and La Traviata, and C.C. White's Ouanga. Among the featured opera singers were Minto Cato, Lillian Evanti, Muriel Rahn, Edward Boatne...

Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000

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