Custodial History
The Library of Congress received this collection from Lincoln Kirstein, who donated it at the request of Nelson Rockefeller, then-coordinator of Inter-American Affairs for the United States Department of State. Rockefeller had sponsored Ballet Caravan's tour of Latin America in 1941 as part of the Department of State’s "Good Neighbor" effort during World War II. The Library of Congress was also involved in the company's tour, providing recording equipment that the company's staff used to record popular and folk music in the nations it visited. These associated recordings are in the Seamus Doyle South American Recordings collection housed in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. American Ballet Caravan transferred the scores to the Library in March 1944, and the Library formally accessioned them in October of that year.