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Vip (Virgil Franklin Partch), 1916-
Partch, Virgil Franklin, 1916-
National Museum of American History. Division of Musical History
Goodman, Benjie
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1872-1984
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1 box
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0485
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous documents and pictorial items related to music, and a set of documents associated with Gibson banjoes.
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 5: Politics and Political Movements
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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circa 1817-1982
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19 boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S05
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 5: Politics and Political Movements contains circa 1,565 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the political history of the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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National Museum of American History, Division of Musical History
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circa 1954-1994
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25 linear meters.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 485
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of curatorial and staff correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the Tower Concert series, exhibitions at the Hall of Musical Instruments, staff research and publications, organ building, acquisition of musical instruments, and funding for seminars and musical performance recordings. Also included are inquiries ...
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Homzy, Andrew
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1927-1960.
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1.5 Cubic Feet (3 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0740
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Stock arrangements of musical compositions by Duke Ellington.
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Blake, Eubie, 1883-1983
Dwyer, Lawrence
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1969 - 1969
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0.15 Cubic Feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1400
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection contains Blake's handwritten, undated manuscripts of his arangements for the songs "Manda," "Poor Archie," "Brittwood Rag," "March of the Senegalese," and the W.C. Handy song, "Yellow Dog Blues"; and a letter from Blake to Professor John Garvey of the University of Illiniois, dated August 3, 1969, requesting that Garvey, when playing...
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Shurr, Robert L.
Handy, W. C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958
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1928
1948 - 1948
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0.3 Cubic Feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0132
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of a photograph, several letters written by Handy, and several pieces of music which he published. Handy remains among the most influential of American Blues songwriters. Handy is credited with giving Blues, its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a reg...
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1841-1986, undated
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98 boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S11
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment in the United States. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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1868-1978
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8 boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S37
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 37: Other Materials contains materials documenting the various subjects present in the collection other than sheet music. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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1898-1987
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6 boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S35
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 35 contains documents related to Sam DeVincent and his interest in sheet music. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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1847-1952
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4 boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S31
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 31 contains materials documenting dialects and foreign songs. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.