Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 10: Sacred Music and Religious Themes
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1822-1986
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39 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S10
- Repository:
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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 10: Sacred Music and Religious Themes contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music, much of which is traditional Christian music, but also documents popular attitudes towards religion 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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Cook Labs
Cook, Emory, 1913-2002
- Dates:
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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to recording artists, photographs, and production materials, as well as phonograph records, master recordings and unpublished recordings produced by or associated with the Cook Labs label.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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Arias, Roger
United States. Dept. of State
Arias, Clotilde, 1901-1959
Thompson, J. Walter (advertising agency).
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1919-1957
2009
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3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1164
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents the life and career of Peruvian musician, composer, and translator Clotilde Arias. Her work includes a Department of State-commissioned translation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" titled "El Pendón Estrellado", advertising jingles, original compositions, and translations of music originally written in English. She also was heavily involved in numerous Pan-American organizations including La Unión de Mujeres Americanas/United American Women.This collection contains correspondence, music manuscripts, photographs,newspaper clippings and printed materials, and four compact discs.
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- Creators:
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National Museum of American History. Division of Cultural History
- Dates:
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1985-2000
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 11-088
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Howard Bass while producing public programs at the National Museum of American History (NMAH). The majority of the records pertain to the "American Sampler" series of programs which presented traditional music, dance, and storytelling from communities and cultural groups throughout ...
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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
- Dates:
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1893-circa 1955
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2.71 Linear feet (4 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4250
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Papers include: diaries and extracts from diaries, account books, a scrapbook, letters received, lectures, reminiscences and brief manuscripts, field and work reports, notes on recording techniques and the preservation of Native American music, musical transcriptions, bibliographic notes, library items, tone photographs, a mouth organ (pitch pipe), and a slide rule.
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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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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
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1933-1940
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3258
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Material includes Manuscript "Choctaw Music," 144 typed pages, 14 photographic illustrations, and transcriptions of 65 songs and one flute melody.
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Gray & Wynkoop
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ca. 1900.
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0194
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection is a photoprint of an early recording session taken about 1900.
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Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
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undated
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2 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1219A
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Musical transcription of two Shoshoni songs, 1 page, and 1 Jicarilla Apache song, 1 page.
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- Creators:
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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
- Dates:
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1929-1939
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1 Item (box )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4482
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes: "Music of Acoma, Isleta and Cochiti (and Zuni) Pueblos." Typed carbon copy of unpublished manuscript, pages 241-250. This manuscript is a brief resume of F. Densmore's work wih Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti and Zuni songs and dances. No date appears on the manuscript but it could not have been written before 1940. This typed carbon copy was rece...