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Helen May Butler Collection, 1899-1937 (bulk ca. 1902)
- Notes
- Helen May Butler, woman bandmaster, directed an all-women traveling military band, 1898-1913. "Music for the American people, by American composers, played by American girls" was one of the band's mottoes. Born in New Hampshire in 1873, she pursued a variety of musical studies and became an accomplished performer in both violin and cornet. She announced candidacy for a U.S. Senate seat in 1936
- Summary
- The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all ladies' traveling military band, 1898-1913 , with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Includes clippings, photographs, programs, posters, postcards, advertising fliers, letters, telegrams, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Senate seat, and "The Flood of 1937" section of the Cincinnati Post, February 13, 1937
- Cite as
- Helen May Butler Collection, 1899-1937, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1899
- 1899-1937
- bulk ca 1902
- 1930-1940
- 1890-1920
- 1900-1950
- 1880-1900
- 1930-1950
- donor
- Young, Helen May Butler
- collector
- Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- Butler, Helen May 1873-19??
- Helen May Butler's Ladies Military Band
- United States. Senate
- Local number
- 242392 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Tony Alderman Country Music Collection, 1927-1976
- Notes
- Tony Alderman was a pioneer as both a performer and chronicler of early American country music. He played the fiddle as well as demonstrating the musical saw and other homemade instruments
- Summary
- Includes photographs, correspondence, news clippings, and approximately 100 reels of audiotape recordings dating from 1954
- Cite as
- Tony Alderman Country Music Collection, 1927-1976, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1927
- 1927-1976
- 1930-1950
- performer
- Alderman, Alonzo (Tony) Elvis (musician) 1900-1983
- collector
- Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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James Stutsman Band Book Collection, 1875
- Notes
- These band books were used by a municipal band in Wilton Junction Iowa, 1875. Most of the books are signed "Fred Maurer's Book." Presumably Mr. Maurer was the leader and/or arranger
- The donor acquired this material from his father, who bought it at an auction in Wilton Junction, Iowa
- Summary
- Nine books plus a fragment of a tenth, seemingly unrelated to the other nine. It is a set of manuscript brass band parts from July 8, 1875. Eight books offer a complete enough assortment to produce a usable performance set
- Cite as
- James Stutsman Band Book Collection, 1875, Archives Center
- Date
- 1875
- 1870-1880
- 19th century
- collector
- Stutsman, James
- Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- Maurer, Fred
- Maurer, J.B
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, 1790-1980s
- Notes
- Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. He purchased much of his collection through travel and had little money to spend. Much of the music he collected was used by him and his wife in their musical performance group, "Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers." They had their own radio show on WOWO, AM 190 in Fort Wayne, Indiana five days a week until the music scene changed in 1955. They continued to do personal appearances and maintained a radio show at the same station every Sunday morning for many years
- Summary
- Primarily published sheet music, plus some related ephemera. Originally included 781 boxes of American sheet music and assorted clippings, articles, photographs, etc.; also 93 boxes of 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records, 30 boxes of 45 RPM records, and 20 boxes of 78 RPM records
- Cite as
- The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, ca. 1790-1980, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1790
- 1980
- 1790-1980s
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- collector
- DeVincent, Sam 1918-1997
- Subject
- WOWO (radio station)
- Local number
- 1988.3086 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Paul Cadwell Banjo Collection, ca. 1880-1980
- Notes
- Cadwell was born in Westfield, N. J., and began playing banjo at ten; played with college banjo clubs at Princeton (class of 1910) and Harvard Law School. Spent adult life as a lawyer and in business, but continued to play five-string banjo. In the 1920s he organized and performed in minstrel shows for the American Legion and the Masonic Lodge. During the 1930s he played occasionally on the "Dutch Masters" radio hour as a member of the "Van Eps Trio." Began involvement with American folk music in the 1940s, playing for the American Folk Dance Society and on NBC radio for "Music of the New World." In the 1950s became involved in the folk music revival and befriended revivalist and bluegrass musicians, notably Roger Sprung. In 1949, a group of older "finger-style" five-string banjoists created the American Banjo Fraternity (ABF), which still meets twice a year in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, though the original banjo notables are deceased
- Summary
- The bulk of the collection is music for the five-string banjo, often with piano and/or second banjo accompaniments. Almost no sheets have cover illustrations. Many editions are British (which rarely give copyright dates)
- Series 2, photographs, include portraits of Cadwell and travel photographs by Frances Reed, Cadwell's first wife
- Cite as
- Paul Cadwell Banjo Collection, ca. 1880-1980, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1880
- 1980
- ca 1880-1980
- 1930-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Cadwell, Paul (banjoist) 1889-1985
- photographer
- Reed, Frances
- collector
- Musical History, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Subject
- Bowen, Bill
- Bradbury, Frank
- Cadwell, Joyce
- Denton, Harry
- Farland, Alfred
- Van Eps, Fred 1878-1960
- American Banjo Fraternity
- Local number
- No NMAH Acc. No
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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William Russo Transcription and Arrangement of Duke Ellington's First Concert of Sacred Music, ca. 1967-68
- Notes
- Russo stated that Duke Ellington loaned him the music in 1967-1968
- William Russo was the Director of the Contemporary American Music Program at Columbia College, Chicago. Active in music from 1947 until his death in 2003, he toured Europe as the leader of a quintet; lived in London, where he conducted the London Jazz Orchestra and worked with the BBC; and lived and taught in New York and Chicago. Russo was noted in the fifties as a composer of experimental music for Stan Kenton's orchestra and Third Stream Music for the Russo orchestra. He has been a trombonist, composer, arranger, and conductor
- Summary
- Full conductor score, orchestral parts, and choral parts to "In the Beginning God," "Tell Me It's the Truth," "The Lord's Prayer," "Ain't But the One"
- Cite as
- William Russo Transcription and Arrangement of Duke Ellington's First Concert of Sacred Music, 1967-1968, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1967
- 1967-1968
- ca 1967-68
- 20th century
- creator
- Russo, William 1928-2003
- composer
- Ellington, Duke 1899-1974
- Subject
- Columbia College (Chicago) Contemporary American Music Program
- Local number
- 1991.3019 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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W. C. Handy Collection, 1928, 1948
- Notes
- Handy, a composer and music publisher, was born in Florence, Alabama Nov. 16, 1873. Known as "father of the blues" because he was first to collect and write songs which had been played by workers, illiterates, and sharecroppers. Among his more than 60 compositions were "Memphis Blues," "St. Louis Blues," and "Joe Turner Blues." Wrote other secular songs, arrangements of spirituals, and orchestral work as composer and conductor. With Harry Pace, a song writer, founded a music publishing house in Memphis, 1907 (moved to New York, 1918). Died March 29, 1958, New York City. Later that year, a movie based on his life, "St. Louis Blues," was released, starring Nat "King" Cole as Handy
- Summary
- A photograph, several letters by Handy, and several pieces of music which he published
- Cite as
- W. C. Handy Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1928
- 1928-1948
- 1928, 1948
- 20th century
- 1900-1950
- author
- Handy, W. C (William Christopher) 1873-1958
- donor
- Shurr, Robert L
- Subject
- Pace, Harry song writer
- Local number
- 1997.3076 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Dr. Theodore Shell Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera, 1933-1990
- Notes
- Dentist and amateur photographer, Theodore Shell graduated from Shaw University in 1937 and served 5 years in the military during WWII. He received his dentistry degree from Howard University in 1950 and founded chapter 90 of the Duke Ellington Society in the late 1950s
- Summary
- Periodical articles, news clippings, concert programs, radio transcripts, personal correspondence, broadsides, photographs, and pencil sketches collected by Dr. Shell. The material documents part of Duke Ellington's music career, especially ca. 1940-1974
- Cite as
- Dr. Theodore Shell Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera, 1933-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1940
- 1975
- 1933-1990
- 1940-1980
- 20th century
- 1940-1990
- 1940-2000
- collector
- Shell, Theodore Dr (dentist)
- Subject
- Ellington, Duke 1899-1974
- Local number
- 1993.3189 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Virgil Whyte "All-Girl" Band Collection, 1942-1948, 1991-1993
- Notes
- Founded 1942 in Racine, Wis., by Virgil Whyte, his "all-girl" band was composed of young Racine women. Whyte was instructor, manager, and the initial leader on drums; later his sister Alice took over as drummer. After initial success in Racine and elsewhere in Wisconsin, the band began to accept engagements in other parts of the country, eventually touring the U.S. The band's success drew other acts and performers, including Jill Fontaine and the Wilford Mae Trio, Sam Hearn (known as "Schlepperman"), the Woodson Sisters, and Paul La Verre and Bro. They did U.S.O. tours, entertaining servicemen
- The principal donor, a free-lance researcher and writer, is the daughter of Virgil Whyte
- Summary
- 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 leisure activities while on the road, including swimming, horseback riding, etc. Packaged hotel soap bars collected by Betty Hansen during the bands' touring documents their itinerary, as do picture postcards written by Alice Smaus Jacoby
- Cite as
- Virgil Whyte's "All-Girl" Band Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1942
- 1942-1948, 1991-1993
- 1940-1950
- 1930-1950
- donor
- Kovan, Florice Whyte
- collector
- Kahl Nilo, Doris
- Knudsen Hansen, Betty
- Smaus Jacoby, Alice
- author
- Whyte, Virgil (bandleader)
- Subject
- United Service Organizations (U.S.)
- Local number
- 1994.3136; 1994.3137; 1994.3138 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Robert Udkoff Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera, 1924-1990
- Notes
- Businessman and Ellington enthusiast, Robert Udkoff was born in Chicago and first heard Duke Ellington perform at Chicago's Oriental Theater in 1928. In 1932 he established a cordial relationship with Ellington that lasted until Ellington's death in 1974
- Summary
- Photographs, event programs, periodicals, cassette audio tapes, correspondence, TV program scripts and pamphlets documenting Duke Ellington's career as a musician, 1924-1974, and his legacy after his death
- Cite as
- Robert Udkoff Collection of Duke Ellington Ephemera, 1924-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1924
- 1924-1990
- 20th century
- 1960-1970
- 1940-2000
- 1920-1940
- collector
- Udkoff, Robert (businessman) 1918-
- Subject
- Ellington, Mercer Kennedy (musician) 1919-1996
- Ellington, Duke 1899-1974
- Swedish Music Academy
- Local number
- 1990.3182 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH