Cornell Festival of Contemporary Arts records, 1945-1959.

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Cornell Festival of Contemporary Arts records, 1945-1959.

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Programs for the Festival of Contemporary Arts at Cornell University (1945-1963); broadsides concerning lectures, exhibitions, films, readings, and musical, dance, and dramatic productions (1953-1956); reports of Professor Walter H. Stainton, Festival Committee chairman (1955-1957) and summary statistics on finances and attendance; Professor M. Slade Kendrick's biographical sketch (4 pp. typescript carbon) of the poet John G. Neihardt, who appeared at the twelfth festival (1958); tape recordings from the Festivals, including those of the Festival Committee, Buckminster Fuller, James T. Farrell, Aaron Copland, and "Dateline Cornell," on WHCU radio, all 1957; and one folder "13 Festival of Contemporary Arts, Student Poetry Reading," 1959 (photocopies).

.2 cubic ft., 9 tape recordings.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8124873

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