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BOX 384-391 |
Business Papers, 1920-1975
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This series consists of papers and cancelled checks that somewhat illuminate the
daily operations of a music publishing business. The papers include rights and
royalties agreements, lists of works, correspondence, contracts, and licenses.
These materials primarily concern composers Cole Porter and Kurt Weill. The cancelled checks are from firms including T. B. Harms; Francis, Day, and
Hunter; Jerome H. Remick and Co.; George and Arthur Piantadosi, Inc.; Schubert
Music Publishing Corp.; Chappell-Harms; Music Sales Corporation; De Sylva, Brown,
and Henderson, Inc.; Famous Music Corporation; Atlas Music Corp; and New World
Music Corporation. There are also checks drawn on banks, including several in
Canada. Checks are made out to and signed by composers, lyricists, arrangers, and
copyists such as Harry Akst, Harold Arlen, Robert Russell Bennett, Gene Buck, Max
and Louis Dreyfus, Rudolf Friml, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Edwin Franko
Goldman, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, E. Y.
Harburg, Lorenz Hart, Victor Herbert, Herman Hupfeld, Jerome Kern, Ted Koehler,
Cole Porter, Ernö Rapée, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Frank Saddler, Albert
Sirmay, John Philip Sousa, Dana Suesse, Paul Van Loan, and Vincent Youmans. Other
checks are made out to businesses and people involved in daily operations,
including music publishers, utility companies, the United States Internal Revenue
Service, the post office, shippers, printers, engravers, advertisers, equipment
suppliers, studios, paper companies, photographers, and so forth. There are no
cancelled checks for 1927. |
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Arranged alpabetically by subject. |
BOX-FOLDER 384/1 |
Ahlert and Turk, 1929 December 20
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Rights and royalties agreement |
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Includes: Agreement between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
and DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson |
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Cancelled checks |
BOX 385 |
1920-1923
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BOX 386 |
1924-1926
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BOX 387 |
1926, 1928-1929
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BOX 388 |
1929-1930
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BOX 389 |
1930
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BOX 390 |
1930-1931
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BOX 391 |
1931-1932
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BOX-FOLDER 384/4 |
Notes on proofreading, 1948 June 28
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Memorandum |
BOX-FOLDER 384/2 |
Porter, Cole, 1966 and undated
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Lists of unpublished and unregistered
works |
BOX-FOLDER 384/3 |
Porter, Cole, 1966-1967
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Correspondence and lists of works |
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Weill, Kurt |
BOX-FOLDER 384/5-7 |
Lost in the Stars,
1950-1974
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Correspondence, memoranda, notes, articles,
contracts, licenses, and certificates of merger |
BOX-FOLDER 384/8-9 |
Lost in the Stars, Knickerbocker Holiday, and
Street Scene,
1945-1975
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Correspondence, contracts, lists, notes,
articles, copyright renewal notices, royalty statements, licenses, and a
motion picture rights agreement |
BOX-FOLDER 384/10 |
Street Scene,
1959-1975
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Correspondence, licenses, contracts, and
notes |