Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection
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Kovan, Florice Whyte
Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
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1942-1948, 1991-1993
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3 Cubic feet (11 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0503
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Includes 7 VHS videotapes and 1 audio tape produced by Florice Whyte Kovan, containing interviews and recollections by some band members. Studio portraits and snapshot photographs in 3 scrapbooks, which also contain display advertisements and newspaper clippings from about the band, 1940s. Snapshots include documentation of the band's travels and l...
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Cron, Rosalind
International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Piney Woods School
Moon, Dixie Hardy
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1933-2010
bulk 1939-1946
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1 Cubic foot (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1218
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm Collection focuses on the all-female, racially and ethnically diverse big band group that started in 1937 and disbanded in 1949. The collection contains news clippings, photographs, correspondence, ephemera from USO travels, and newsletters. Also included are books related to the group, as well as a tribute CD and a 33 rpm vinyl sound recording.
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Mandel, Johnny
Raeburn, Boyd,, 1913-1966
Kleeb, Milt,, 1919-2015
Johnson, Budd
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circa 1942-1949
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9 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1431
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists primarily of the "band library" for the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, containing arrangements of musical numbers performed by the Orchestra. The arrangers included Ed Finckel, Juan Tizol, George Handy, Budd Johnson, Johnny Richards, Stanley Baum, Ralph Flanagan, Johnny Mandel, George "The Fox" Williams, Milt Kleeb, Tadd Dameron, a...
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Young, Helen May Butler
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Musical Instruments
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1899-1937
bulk 1902-1902
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, one oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0261
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all women's traveling military band from 1898-1913, with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Contents include clippings, photographs, programs, sheet music, hand noted music, posters, post cards, advertising fliers, letters, telegram, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Sena...
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Free, Jerry D.
International Battle of the Bands, Inc.
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1981-1998.
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32 Cubic feet (88 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0677
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Business records, scrapbooks, audio disks, videotape, audio tape, and photographs documenting the business and entertainment activities at the International Battle of the Bands.
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Bukowski, Henry S., 1922-
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
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ca. 1930s-1940s
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0678
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Publicity photographs and postcards of entertainers, mostly jazz musicians and leaders of dance bands, etc., and related memorabilia.
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Edelson, Rachel Goodman
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Musical History
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
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circa 1964
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1 Item (1 oversize file folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0381
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A poster documenting Goodman's 1964 tour to Japan and the published sheet music for Brahms's QUINTET FOR CLARINET IN A and SONATA FOR CLARINET IN B.
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Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
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1908-2002, bulk 1948-1965
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6.3 Cubic feet (Phonograph albums)
63.5 Cubic feet (Open-reel tapes)
8.75 Cubic feet (Business records)
78.55 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- CFCH.COOK
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Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Cook Labs records, which date from 1939-2002, document the activities of audio engineer Emory Cook and his label Cook Labs. The contents include business records, materials relating to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label. The collection also contains two interviews conducted with Emory Cook in 1990: one by Jeff Place and one by Anthony Seeger and Nicholas Spitzer. There are several physical objects relating to Cook Labs including a bag of powdered vinyl, a binaural playing arm, and a condenser microphone.
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Bruhl, Joseph R., 1909-
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1925-1938
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1.33 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0869
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily consists of photographs and a scrapbook documenting Joseph Bruhl's experiences playing with territory bands from the early 1920s through the late 1930s. There are also some materials that relate to his personal life.
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McKinley, Ray, 1910-1995 (musician, bandleader)
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1945-1994
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19.5 Cubic feet (56 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0635
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The Ray McKinley Music and Ephemera consists of music, scores, sideman books, photographs, correspondence, news clippings and magazine articles, business records, awards, audio and videotapes, 45 rpm commercial recordings, and miscellaneous biographical notes. The records date from the the late nineteenth century to 1996 and document the profession...
