Creator:
unknown
Inclusive Dates:
1950- 1960
Abstract:
Photographs of various African American
musicians, singers and performers from the 1950s and 1960s.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Subject:
Entertainers.
Musicians.
Singers.
African Americans
Music
African American musicians.
African American singers.
Blues musicians.
Jazz musicians.
Creator:
Albert Schweitzer Center
Inclusive Dates:
Abstract:
Organizational records, correspondence, memorabilia relating to the Albert Schweitzer Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
Missionaries.
Musicians.
Theologians.
Music
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Creator:
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
Inclusive Dates:
1947- 1947
Abstract:
Letter from the German musician, physician and philanthropist to an unknown recipient.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Music
Music.
Organ (Musical instrument)
Musicians.
Organists.
Creator:
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
Inclusive Dates:
1896- 1965
Abstract:
Papers of the theologian, philosopher, physician, organist, and music scholar; born in Alsace, France. Founded a missionary hospital in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his advocacy of the brotherhood of nations. Collection includes correspondence (1901-1965); 123 notebooks (1918-1965); manuscript essays and lectures on religion, philosophy, and medicine; and sermons. Correspondence includes nearly 1400 letters between Schweitzer and wife Hélène Bresslau (1901-1939); 396 letters (1950-1965) written in German to Erica Anderson; 180 letters to daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller; and 70 letters to various recipients, including 3 to Rudolf Bultmann. Notebooks document Schweitzer's daily life in Lambaréné, the diseases and stories of his patients, and the arrival of visitors to the mission. They also contain poems, quotations, excerpts from books on philosophy, religion, and history; clippings from French, German, English, and African newspapers; reports on world politics; and commentaries on himself and his work.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Essays.
Lectures.
Notebooks.
Sermons.
Subject:
Gabon -- Description and travel.
Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon)
Missionaries.
Musicians.
Physicians.
Theologians.
Music
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Humanists.
Missionaries, Medical.
Missions -- Gabon.
Missions, Medical -- Gabon.
Organists.
Philosophers.
Theologians.
Creator:
Polah, Andre, 1892-1949.
Inclusive Dates:
1915- 1949
Abstract:
Papers of the American conductor, violinist. Born in The Hague, Holland. Correspondence (1918-1949); musical programs (1918-1949); clippings about Polah, some relating to his tenure as concertmaster and conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra; and sheet music.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Programs (documents)
Sheet music.
Subject:
Conductors (Music).
Musicians.
Music
Conductors (Music) -- United States.
Dutch Americans.
Music -- 20th century.
Musicians -- United States.
Violinists -- United States.
Creator:
Pease, Anna E.
Inclusive Dates:
1908- 1911
Abstract:
Diary of a young woman in Central New York, during her last year at Wells College and first two years after graduation. Miss Pease seems to have been very musical as there is frequent mention of piano lessons, recitals, church choirs, singing, etc.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Subject:
Students.
Musicians.
Music
New York State
Women Authors
Women college students -- New York (State)
Women pianists -- New York (State)