Charles Hubert Farnsworth collection, 1887-1936.

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Charles Hubert Farnsworth collection, 1887-1936.

Essays, correspondence, papers, and outlines, on music appreciation, education through music, music teaching, aesthetics, and philosophy, written by Farnsworth; papers relating to Camp Hanoum; mss. for books and articles, chiefly on music education, music history, conferences attended, and teachers of music; materials written by others, including articles, biographical materials; photographs including glass plate negatives taken throughout his life; books; and other materials.

2 file drawers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8211622

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Columbia University. Teachers College.

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Farnsworth, Charlotte, 1866-

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Farnsworth, Caroline E. Palmer

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Farnsworth, Charles Hubert, 1859-1947

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Born in Kayseri, Turkey, the son of Rev. Wilson A. Farnsworth and Caroline E. Palmer Farnsworth, missionaries; educated by his parents in Turkey and began his musical training with his mother; spent a brief time in the Newtonville, Mass., high school; for eight months traveled as a ship's boy on a sailing vessel to Chile; upon his return to the U.S. studied piano with Benjamin D. Alien, whose daughter Charlotte he married in 1890; became an organist in Worcester, Mass., and continued to read wid...

Hughes, Charles W., 1900-1999

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