Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift of Carpenter and his wife, Ellen Waller Carpenter, between 1932 and 1962.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The John Alden Carpenter Collection was processed in 1993 by Claudia J. Widgery. This Finding Aid was prepared with Corel WordPerfect 8. In 2003, Michael A. Ferrando coded and edited the finding aid for EAD format. Nancy Seeger revised the finding aid in February 2012.
Related Material
The Library of Congress Music Division has cataloged and shelved selected scores from the John Alden Carpenter Collection under the following call numbers: ML96.C274, ML96.5.C33, ML96.N22c, ML29c.C3, and ML96.D42. The locations are indicated in this finding aid.
In addition, the Library of Congress Music Division holds several collections that contain materials relating to John Alden Carpenter. They are: the Aaron Copland Collection ; Nicolas Slonimsky Collection ; Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection ; Serge Koussevitzky Archive ; Artur Rodzinski Collection ; Edison Sheet Music Collection ; Julius Gold Collection ; Adolph Bolm Collection ; Jascha Heifetz Collection ; Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection ; William Remsen Strickland Collection ; Leonard Bernstein Collection ; Federal Theatre Project Collection ; Harold Spivacke Collection ; Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection ; Damrosch-Blaine Collection; and the Percy Grainger Collection.
Microfilm
Selected Carpenter music manuscripts have been preserved on microfilm under Music 1856, reels 1-5 and Music 1, reels 1770-1771.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], John Alden Carpenter Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.