Scope and Contents

967 pieces of sheet music

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. The photographic portion of the collection consists primarily of Carl Van Vechten's portraits of influential actors, writers, and artists of the New York stage. Amongst the photographic prints are rare portraits of notable African American authors,...

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...

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.

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts, sheet music, published musical scores, scripts, photographs of early 20th century Austrian stage actors, personal photographs, sketches, and ephemera.