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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
Composers' Collective, 1929-1937 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 79/36 Mit gezang tzum kamf, ed. Schaefer, Jacob, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 79/37 My poem/We sing, ed. Shneerson, G. M. 1938
Note: In Russian
BOX-FOLDER 80/1 ¡Pasaramos!, ed. Shneerson, G. M. 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/2 Pioneer songbook: songs for workers' and farmers' children, ed. Potamkin, Harry Alan 1933
Note: Includes Seeger's suggestions for 2nd edition, November 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/3 Pionerskii pesnnik, 1935
BOX-FOLDER 80/4 Proletarische lieder der USSR, 1931
BOX-FOLDER 80/5 Red songbook, 1932
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 80/6 Revolutionary and proletarian songs of USSR, 15, 1932
BOX-FOLDER 80/7 Rhumreiche banner: Märsche und lieder, undated
Note: Copy originally owned by Bess Brown Lomax; signed by her and dated 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/8 S. A. lieder potpourri, undated
Note: Copy originally owned by Bess Brown Lomax; signed by her and dated 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/9 Sbornik pesendlia natsal'noi shkoli, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/10 Sbornik proizvedenii molodykh kompozitorov (Vy push 2), 1935
BOX-FOLDER 80/11 Skhollan luhmomuro knaga, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/12 Sixteen songs for sixpence, undated
BOX-FOLDER 80/13 Songs against war and fascism, 1936
BOX-FOLDER 80/14 Songs for America: American ballads, folk songs, marching songs, songs of other lands, 1939
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 80/15 Songs of the revolution, undated
BOX-FOLDER 80/16 Tri voennye pesni respublicanski Ispanii, ed. Shneerson, G. M., 1939
BOX-FOLDER 80/17 Vokal'nyi sbornik: sovietski kompository muzykal'noĭ samodeiatil'nosti, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/18 Wir mädel singer: liederbuch des bundes Deutscher mädel, 1938
BOX-FOLDER 80/19 Workers songbook #1, 1934
BOX-FOLDER 80/20 Workers songbook #1, revised, 1934
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
BOX-FOLDER 81/1 Workers songbook #2, revised, 1934
Note: Photocopy donated by Sidney Robertson Cowell
Note: Includes typewritten notes by Cowell on composers and their pseudonyms
Note: Three copies
Subject Files
Articles, programs, publications, and reports
Arranged alphabetically by file unit
BOX-FOLDER 81/2 Declarations, undated
Miscellaneous files
BOX-FOLDER 81/6 Blake, Ben, ed., 12 Plays for boys and girls, undated
Note: Pictures by Bill Siegel
BOX-FOLDER 81/7 International Union of Revolutionary Theatre. "Thesis on organizational principles," 1934
BOX-FOLDER 81/8 Lebedinsky, Lev. "The crisis of bourgeoise music and the creative problems [of] the international revolutionary movement," 1933 June
BOX-FOLDER 81/9 Seeger, Charles (as Carl Sands). Reviews, 1934-1936
Clippings
Note: Includes list of reviews and response pieces
BOX-FOLDER 81/10 Unidentified. "Workers' chorus must be militant chorus, undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 81/3, 5/29-30 Programs, 1933-1934, 1936
Note: 1936 Festival of American Music League program inscribed by an unknown correspondent with a note to "Charles and Ruth"
BOX-FOLDER 81/4 Publications, 1932-1938
Contains:
  • Music Vanguard, 6, #2, 19335
  • Muzykal'naia samodeiatel'nost', 1934, 1936
  • Unison, vol. 1, #1, 3-4, 1936-1937 and vol 2, #1, 1938
  • The worker musician, 6, #1, 1932 December
  • Workers Music League bulletin, 1935
BOX-FOLDER 81/5 Reports, 1933, 1935, and undated
BOX 19, 82-83 Biographical Materials, 1908-1978
Clippings, forms, invoices, notes, obituaries, oral histories, programs, subject files, and vital records
Arranged alphabetically by file unit
BOX-FOLDER 82/1 Address books, 1978 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/2 Appointments, 1941-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/3 Banking, 1961-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/4 Biographies, 1923-1978
Note: Includes clippings
BOX-FOLDER 82/5 "Boyhood in Staten Island," undated
Note: Includes letter from Elsie Seeger with her comments and memories
BOX-FOLDER 82/6 Charles Louis Seeger bookplate, undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/7 Charles Seeger celebration, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 82/8 F. B. I. file, 1953
Redacted photocopy
BOX-FOLDER 82/9, 19/4 Harvard University, 1908, 1916
BOX-FOLDER 82/10 Health records, 1952, 1957, 1963, 1978, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 17/5 Honorary degree - Doctor of Fine Arts, University of California, 1968 March 23
BOX-FOLDER 82/11 Honorary memberships, 1970-1975
BOX-FOLDER 82/12 Honors, 1945, 1960, 1968
BOX-FOLDER 82/13 Invoices, 1956-1978 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 82/14 Medical care, 1964-1978
BOX-FOLDER 82/15 Obituaries, 1979
Clippings
Oral histories
BOX-FOLDER 82/16 KPFK radio program, Boris Kremenliev, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 82/17 University of California Los Angeles, 1970
BOX-FOLDER 82/18 David Dunaway, 1976
see also Dunaway, David, 1976-1977 and Dunaway, David. "Charles Seeger and Carl Sands: the Composers' Collective years"
BOX-FOLDER 82/19 Penny Seeger Cohen, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 82/20 Passport applications, undated
Note: Includes certificate of birth and photographs
BOX-FOLDER 82/21 Pension - Pan American Union, 1961-1973
BOX-FOLDER 83/1 Programs, 1913-1914, 1918
Note: Performances by both Charles L. Seeger and Constance Edson Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 83/2 Programs, 1916, 1937-1967
Note: Performances of Charles L. Seeger's work and program notes by Seeger
BOX-FOLDER 83/3-5 Taxes, 1975-1977
BOX 84 Photographs and Artwork, 1924-1969
Photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, and pencil drawings.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 84/1 African-American and Greek musicians, Florida, 1939 August
Black and white prints
Note: Images taken in Ybor City and Cross City, Florida, documenting Aycock and Lindsey turpentine works, the Azuna family, and Alton C. Morris
BOX-FOLDER 84/2 Bioune, 1955
Black and white prints
Note: Los ateliers de photographie, B. L. M. Ltée, Chicoutimi; from Sidney Robertson Cowell
BOX-FOLDER 84/3 Cowell, Henry and Carl Ruggles, 1961
Black and white prints
Note: Sidney Robertson Cowell, photographer
BOX-FOLDER 84/4 Inscription musicale talles undated
Black and white prints of book pages
BOX-FOLDER 84/5 Model B melograph, 1961
BOX-FOLDER 84/6 Musical instruments, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1937
Black and white prints with descriptive captions
Note: Sidney Robertson Cowell, photographer
BOX-FOLDER 84/7 Seeger, Charles, Hart Avenue house, 1969
Color prints and transparencies
BOX-FOLDER 84/8 Seeger, Ruth Crawford, undated
Black and white print
BOX-FOLDER 84/9 Stroud, E. A., playing dulcimer, undated
Black and white print and negative
Note: Hawkins Commercial Photos, Kansas City, Missouri; from Sidney Robertson Cowell
BOX-FOLDER 84/10 Unidentified gathering, undated
Black and white print
BOX-FOLDER 84/11 Robinson, Boardman. Sketches, circa 1924
Pencil drawings
BOX-FOLDER 84/12 West, Hedy. Charles Seeger, 1962 February 28
Pencil drawings
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