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Carl Van Vechten memorial collection of arts and letters
Collection
Identifier: MS-91
Scope and Contents
Photographs, sheet music, playbills, prints, publications, sound recordings, programs, souvenir books, correspondence, drawings, broadsides, articles, ephemera, manuscripts, and journal issues relating to the theater, music, dance, and literature. Although not limited to materials related to African American artists and their works, the collection includes a large number of materials documenting African American artistic endeavors during the early and mid-twentieth century. The collection...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1880-; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1986
Collection of music
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 30
Scope and Contents
Music notebooks. Consists of handwritten copies of musical compositions by various composers believed to have been copied by Charlotte Brown in 1816. Includes period songs, ballads, waltzes, and other dance music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Music written in English and German.
Dates:
ca. 1816; Other: Date acquired: 12/05/1990
Frank Gullo Sheet Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-90
Scope and Contents
Sheet music and musical scores. The collection includes over 9,000 pieces of sheet music from popular artists, plays, and movies. The bulk of the collection is comprised of sheet music and scores from Broadway musicals produced between the 1890's and the 1940's.
Dates:
Publication: 1856-1986; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1995
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- Subject: Dance music. X
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- Subject
- Dance music. 2
- Music -- United States -- 20th century. 2
- Musical films -- Lead sheets. 2
- Musicals -- Lead sheets. 2
- African American authors -- Portraits. 1
- African American entertainers -- Portraits. 1
- African American periodicals. 1
- African Americans -- Civil Rights 1
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877. 1
- African Americans -- Portraits. 1
- African Americans -- Songs and music. 1
- Artists -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Authors, American -- Portraits. 1
- Ballads. 1
- Blues (Music) 1
- Dance music -- Lead sheets. 1
- Entertainers -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Marches (Piano) 1
- Music -- United States -- 19th century. 1
- Patriotic music -- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Piano music. 1
- Popular music -- United States. 1
- Popular music --- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Slave bills of sale. 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Sources. 1
- Waltzes. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Brown, Charlotte. 1
- Gullo, Frank 1
- Kellner, Bruce. 1
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. 1
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