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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
Composers' Collective, 1929-1937 (continued)
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
BOX 5-17, 85-95, 230 MAPCASE FOLDER 21 REEL 1-6 Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1887-2005 (bulk 1912-1954)
Holograph, manuscript, annotated, and printed scores and sketches; correspondence; programs, drafts, articles, and reviews; diaries, stories, poems, and yearbooks; scrapbooks, book mock-ups and illustrations; and clippings.
Materials are arranged into six subseries: Music, Correspondence, Writings by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Writings About Ruth Crawford Seeger, Music - Programs/Reviews, and Biographical Materials.
BOX 5-13 REEL 1-4, 6 Music, 1922-1998
Holograph manuscript scores, annotated scores, and sketches.
Materials from boxes 5-13 are available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reels 1-4 and 6. A complete contents list for the microfilm reels is available in the Ruth Crawford Seeger Holograph Music Manuscripts and Folk Materials Microfilm Contents List. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Arranged in microfilm item order under the following headings: Chamber, Piano, Vocal, Arrangements, and Posthumously Printed Music.
Chamber
Four diaphonic suites
BOX-FOLDER 5/31 REEL 1 Diaphonic suites, 1930
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1
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