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19th century sheet music collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6238
Abstract

54 pieces of sheet music, primarily of popular songs published in the United States, with some examples published in England and Belgium, 1850s-1870s.

Dates: 1850s-1870s

19th century theatrical photographs album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6156
Abstract

This photograph album consists of photographs of actors and actresses, many in theatrical costume and posies, as well as photographs of stage sets with actors. The actors, actresses and productions are unidentified.

Dates: circa 1890s

19th century theatrical programs, newspapers, and broadside collection

 Collection — Map-case: 6, drawer: 2
Identifier: 6028
Abstract Newspapers, broadsides, theatrical programs and bulletins, and meeting programs, 1859-1890, published primarily in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. While the majority of the materials are theatrically related, the collection does include an issue of the Daily Stage, a newspaper published in Virginia City, Nevada; the Carnival Record, a publication of Author's Carnival and Fete of Nations; and Acrobats and Mountebanks, a special supplement of the New York Commercial...
Dates: 1859 - 1890

78 rpm record collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1013
Abstract

This collection contains more than 600 Shellac 78 rpm discs for a variety of American music representing the confluence of popular and jazz-adjacent genres typical of the developing music industry from the first half of the 20th century.

Dates: approximately 1900s-1950s

American Guild of Organists records

 Collection
Identifier: 0019
Abstract

Established in 1908, the Southern California Chapter of the American Guild of Organists is a local chapter of the national professional association serving the organ and choral music fields. This collection contains the records of the Los Angeles and Pasadena chapters of the American Guild of Organists, including administrative files, publications, and annual scrapbooks.

Dates: 1908 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1950 - 2000

American literature sheet music collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6154
Abstract This small collection of sheet music consists of music published between 1872 and 1940 (with the bulk published 1900s-1930s). The bulk of the music consists of lyrics written by significant American writers, including Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bill Nye, O. Henry, and Owen Wister, to name a few. The musical compositions were written by equally well known composers, including Jerome Kern, Efrem Zimbalist, Carrie Jacobs-Bond,and Doc White, among...
Dates: 1872 - 1940; Majority of material found in 1900s-1930s

Ampico collection of piano rolls

 Collection
Identifier: 0028
Abstract

Player piano rolls recorded for Ampico (the American Piano Company, manufacturer of reproducing pianos) by prominent European and American pianists, 1895-25.

Dates: 1895 - 1925

Alexander Arkatov papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6142
Abstract Alexander Arkatov was a teacher of theater at the Imperial School of the Theatre and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Moscow, where he lectured on the history of drama. He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre, studied under Stanislavsky, and later worked at the Moscow Camerny Theatre under Director Tairov. By 1919, he was the associate director of productions at the Theatre of the Revolution, and was appointed Dean and Professor of the Academy at the State Motion...
Dates: circa 1920s-1940s

Louie Bellson sheet music collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0365
Abstract

This collection includes folders of annotated sheet music scores performed by drummer and band leader Louie Bellson (1924-2009) and associated acts, as well as Bellson’s compositions.

Dates: 1940 - 1989

Don Bondi collection of dance programs and publications

 Collection
Identifier: 6010
Abstract

Programs from performances of ballet, modern dance, and musicals; pamphlets and journal offprints discussing dance and dancers.

Dates: 1920s-2004

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Federal Theatre Project (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Limón, José (1908-01-12-1972-12-02) 2
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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 2
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Adams, Maude 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
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Albertine, Charles 1
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American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
American Guild of Organists 1
American Guild of Organists. Los Angeles Chapter 1
American Guild of Organists. Pasadena Chapter 1
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Ampico Corporation 1
Anderson, Maxwell 1
Angel Records (Firm) 1
Arent, Arthur 1
Arkatov, Alexander 1
Armstrong, Lil Hardin 1
Ashkenazy, Vladimir 1
Autry, Gene 1
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1
Bailey Films (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Balasaraswati 1
Beethoven, Ludwig van 1
Bella Union Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Bellson Francine 1
Bellson, Louis 1
Bennett, Tony 1
Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982 1
Blom, Benjamin 1
Blossom, Henry, 1866-1919 1
Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Balet 1
Bondi, Don 1
Brady, James Buchanan 1
Brahms, Johannes 1
Briscoe, Dolph 1
Bronson, Lillian 1
Brown, Rayner, 1912-1999 1
Brown, Ross 1
Bruckner, Anton 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) 1
Burke, Billie, 1885-1970 1
California Civic Light Opera Association 1
Cansino, Eduardo, 1893-1968 1
Cansino, Elisa, 1894- 1
Cansino, Gabriel, 1913?-1963 1
Carousel Dance Theatre for Children 1
Carrick, Edward 1
Cecchetti, Enrico 1
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 1
Christy Minstrels 1
Clayton, Buck 1
Clements, Colin 1
Clooney, Rosemary 1
Code, Grant Hyde 1
Collett, Dorothy 1
Columbia Phonograph Company, inc. 1
Conkle, E. P. (Ellsworth Prouty) 1
Conniff, Ray 1
Corbett, James J. 1
Craig, Edward Gordon 1
Cunningham, Merce (1919-04-16-2009-07-26) 1
Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965 1
Debussy, Claude 1
Devenport, Frank 1
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929 1
Diorio, Joe (Joseph Louis), 1936-2022 1
Duffy, Henry, 1890-1961 1
El Capitan Theatre (Organization : Hollywood, Calif.) 1
Engel, Carl, 1883-1944 1
Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer) 1
Fallenius, Margaret 1
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) 1
Fields, Armond 1
Fields, Lew 1
Fondren Library. Music Library 1
Foy, Eddie 1
Gaines, Laurell, 1909-2004 1
Galsworthy, John 1
Gerrard, Saida 1
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 1
Gole, Joseph 1
Goya, Carola 1
Graham, Martha (1894-05-11-1991) 1
Greenwood, Charlotte, 1890-1977 1
Grell, Dwight 1
Gro, Josephine 1
Handel, George Frideric 1
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1
Hawkins, Erick (1909-04-23-1994-11-23) 1
Haydn, Joseph 1
Hayworth, Rita, 1918-1987 1
Hefti, Neal 1
Heidt, Horace 1
Helfman, Max 1
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