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Custodial History
According to Library of Congress records from the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein II had intended on giving his papers to the library. It wasn't until after his death that his wife Dorothy gave her husband's papers on deposit to the Library of Congress in 1961. She began converting Hammerstein deposits to gifts from 1961 through 1967, with the last conversion occuring in 1981. Musical theatre researcher and archivist Amy Asch originally prepared and inventoried the Jane Howard Hammerstein portion of the papers from 2000 to 2003.