Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The records in the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers were generated during Harold Spivacke's tenure as Sub-Committee chairman. He served in this capacity as an additional duty to his position as chief of the Library of Congress Music Division (1937-1972). As such, these materials constitute Spivacke's desk files documenting this wartime work. The files were maintained at the Library after the Sub-Committee ceased operation in 1946.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers were processed in 1993 by Robert Saladini with assistance from Jerry Pietrosewicz. Materials designated "for War Collection, Music Division," given to the Library of Congress Music Division on June 24, 1943, by the Industrial Service Division, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department, Washington, D. C., were integrated into the collection during processing.
The original finding aid was prepared with Corel WordPerfect 8. In 2005, the collection finding aid was coded for EAD format by Michael A. Ferrando.
Additional Sub-Committee files were located in 2014. Nancy Seeger incorporated the Music Illustrators subseries into the collection at that time. Between January 2021 and May 2022 Anita M. Weber fine-tuned the collection arrangement, completed processing the remainder of the 2014 addition, and revised and updated the finding aid to current standards.
Online Content
Select Aaron Copland correspondence from the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers is available on the Library of Congress Web site in the Aaron Copland Collection.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.