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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

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

Michael Andersen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5139
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers and music scores of film and classical composer, Michael Andersen. Includes scores, photographs, news articles, letters, and music programs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1980s

Leo Arnaud collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2669
Abstract

This collection consists of the sheet music of French American composer Leo Arnaud, including the song used as the theme for the Olympic Games, "Bugler's Dream".

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930s-1980s

Charles Leland Bagley papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0016
Abstract

This collection contains the personal papers of Charles Leland Bagley, along with records pertaining to the American Federation of Musicians. Bagley was a musician and lawyer who lived in Los Angeles and who was active in the AFM Local 47 until his retirement in 1959. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, union publications, and ephemera.

Dates: 1865 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1962

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

Ray Bolger sheet music collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2283
Abstract

Ray Bolger sheet music collection contains materials related to American actor, singer, dancer, vaudevillian, and stage performer Ray Bolger (1904-1987).

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1930s-1970s

Cleve family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6164
Abstract A collection of family papers concerning a Jewish family who fled Austria and sought exile in the United States during the rise of Nazi power. Felix Merori Cleve, his wife Melitta Cleve, their son George Wolfgang Cleve, and Felix's sister Fanny Suhrkamp-Cleve, were Austrian-Jewish emigres who fled to the United States after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria. This collection contains professional and personal correspondence and papers prior to their departure, correspondence and papers related...
Dates: 1910s-1980s

Collection on Dolores del Río

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0521
Abstract

This small artificial collection contains various printed promotional items for Mexican and American productions starring Mexican actor Dolores del Río (1904-1983), chiefly dating from 1928 to 1958.

Dates: 1935 - 2000

Glenn DeMots collection on Gary Cooper

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2371
Abstract

This collection consists of scripts, publicity materials, books, sheet music, magazines and photographs that feature actor Gary Cooper (1901-1961), collected by Glenn DeMots.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1910s-1970s

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USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library 24
USC Libraries Special Collections 15
USC Libraries Music Library 13
ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California 4
 
Subject
Photographs 13
Correspondence 11
Composers 9
Composition (Music) -- Archival resources 8
Motion picture music -- Archival resources 8
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Clippings 7
Composers -- United States -- Archival resources 7
Ephemera 7
Scores (documents for music) 7
Arrangement (Music) 6
Programs (documents) 6
Film stills 5
Music -- 20th century -- Archival resources 5
Orchestral music -- Archival resources 5
Scores 5
Scrapbooks 5
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
Manuscripts 4
Actors -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
Arrangers (Musicians) -- Archival resources 3
Awards 3
Books 3
Film composers -- Archival resources 3
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Archival resources 3
Music 3
Music -- History -- Archival resources 3
Phonograph records 3
Screenplays 3
Television music -- Archival resources 3
Animated television music -- Archival resources 2
Composers -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Conductors (Music) -- California -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Drafts (documents) 2
Financial records 2
Jazz musicians 2
Letters 2
Memorandums 2
Motion picture producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Motion pictures -- Archival resources 2
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Music -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources 2
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Musical films -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Musical theater -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
Popular music -- Archival resources 2
Popular music -- United States -- Archival resources 2
Postcards 2
Publicity photographs 2
Realia 2
Scripts 2
Treatments (documents) 2
Universities and colleges -- Faculty -- Archival resources 2
Vaudeville songs -- Archival resources 2
Academy Awards (Motion pictures) -- Archival resources 1
Acetate film 1
Actors -- Mexico -- Photographs 1
Actresses -- Photographs 1
Administrative reports 1
Advertising -- Motion pictures -- Archival resources 1
Aeronautics -- History -- Archival resources 1
Alma maters (Songs) -- Archival resources 1
Antiphonaries 1
Antiphonaries -- Archival resources 1
Argentina -- Songs and music 1
Audiocassettes 1
Audiotapes 1
Baritones (Singers) -- United States -- Archival resources 1
Biography 1
Bulletins 1
Certificates 1
Clothing 1
College sports -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Cross dressing 1
Cuba -- Songs and music 1
Cultural artifacts 1
Dance -- Archival resources 1
Diaries 1
Directories 1
Dolls (figurines) 1
Drummers (Musicians) 1
Entertainers -- United States -- Archival resources 1
Female impersonators 1
Folk dancing -- Archival resources 1
Folk music -- Archival resources 1
Folk songs -- Latin America 1
Gay composers 1
Gay dramatists 1
Gay erotica 1
Gay men 1
Gay men and musicals 1
Gay men's writings 1
Gay musicians 1
Glee clubs -- California -- Archival resources 1
Greek letter societies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
Guatemala -- Songs and music 1
Guatemala -- Description and travel -- Archival resources 1
Honduras -- Songs and music 1
Index cards 1
Jews -- Music 1
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Language
English 53
Spanish; Castilian 3
German 1
Hebrew 1
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Yiddish 1
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Names
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 2
Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946 2
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2
University of Southern California 2
Wesson, Al 2
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Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Adams, Maude 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Albertine, Charles 1
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 1
American Federation of Musicians 1
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. Musicians' Union, Local 47 (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Andersen, Michael, 1938- 1
Andrews, Julie 1
Armstrong, Lil Hardin 1
Arnaud, Leo, 1904-1991 1
Astaire, Fred 1
Bagley, Charles Leland 1
Batten, Jean 1
Beech, Olive Ann 1
Bellson Francine 1
Bellson, Louis 1
Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989 1
Bliss, Arthur 1
Blossom, Henry, 1866-1919 1
Bolger, Ray 1
Bowen, Pansy 1
Brady, James Buchanan 1
Capa, Robert, 1913-1954 1
Caron, Leslie 1
Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich 1
Chaplin, Saul, 1912-1997 1
Christy Minstrels 1
Clayton, Buck 1
Cleve, Fanny 1
Cleve, Felix M. 1
Cleve, George, 1936-2015 1
Cleve, Melitta 1
Clooney, Rosemary 1
Comden, Betty 1
Conniff, Ray 1
Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961 1
Corbett, James J. 1
Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983 1
Devenport, Frank 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Eddy, Nelson, 1901-1967 1
Elinor, Carli, 1890-1958 1
Eltinge, Julian 1
Engel, Carl, 1883-1944 1
Fallenius, Margaret 1
Fields, Armond 1
Fields, Lew 1
Fiorito, Ted, 1900-1971 1
Fordin, Hugh, 1935-2019 1
Foreman, Shawn Daniel 1
Foy, Eddie 1
Freed, Arthur, 1894-1973 1
Garland, Judy 1
Gidding, Nelson 1
Goldstein, William, 1942- 1
Green, Adolph 1
Gro, Josephine 1
Harnell, Joe 1
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1
Hay-Drummond-Hay, Grace Marguerite, Lady 1
Hefti, Neal 1
Heidt, Horace 1
Henry, O., 1862-1910 1
Holman, Bill 1
Hunt, Gale 1
James, Harry 1
Jani, Robert F., 1934-1989 1
Johnson, Marvin C. 1
Jones, Thad 1
Judd, Ralph 1
Kaplan, Mike, 1918- 1
Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996 1
Kern, Jerome 1
Kibbee, Martin 1
Klemperer, O. (Otto) 1
La Mont, Grant 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Lawrence, Gertrude 1
Leipzig, Adam 1
Levant, Oscar, 1906-1972 1
Linn, Robert 1
Liszt, Franz 1
Loraine, William, 1869- 1
Los Angeles City School District. Division of Instruction and Curriculum. Music Section 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Luders, Gustav, 1865-1913 1
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 1
Mandel, Johnny 1
Matlock, Matty 1
Matthias, Jack 1
Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957 1
McCormick, Katharine Dexter 1
McCroskey, Pearl 1
McDonald, Bruce 1
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