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1. Charles Miller collection of music manuscripts, 1924-1945

   31 items. 1 container. 1 linear foot. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Charles Miller was an arranger, orchestrator, copyist, and editor who worked with many prominent Broadway composers of the early twentieth century. The collection primarily contains holograph and manuscript piano-vocal scores and scores for piano by Victor Herbert, Victor Jacobi, Werner Janssen, Jerome Kern, Fritz Kreisler, and Vincent Youmans, as well as a typescript article about Victor Herbert written by Miller.

2. Boots family papers of Vincent Youmans, 1924-1975

   35 items. 2 containers. 1.25 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Vincent Youmans was a producer, publisher, and composer of shows and popular songs. The collection consists of piano-vocal scores, lead sheets, lyric sheets, clippings, photographs, and a memoir written by Youmans' second wife, Mildred Boots.

3. Vincent Youmans music manuscripts, 1920-1957

   approximately 600 items. 11 containers. 5.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Vincent Youmans was a producer, publisher, and composer of shows and popular songs. The collection contains mostly holograph and manuscript full scores, piano-vocal scores, sketches, and parts representing a majority of his shows.

4. American / Century Play Company scripts and business papers, 1894-2006

   approximately 16,000 items. 187 containers. 94.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The American Play Company / Century Play Company was a conglomerate publishing house that represented many of the most prominent American playwrights and dramatists of the 20th century. The scripts and business papers in the collection document numerous aspects of American theater production history, including author representation, show production, publishing, and licensing for television, film, radio, and stock productions. The script library notably includes five working copies of The Glass Menagerie (1944) by Tennessee Williams and early performance drafts of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1921), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and Strange Interlude (1923). The collection also highlights several unpublished, unproduced works by female playwrights, such as Harriet Ford and Margery Benton Cooke.