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Charles Louis Seeger, 1900-1983 (bulk 1925-1979) (continued)
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
BOX-FOLDER 5/32 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 1: for bassoon and cello or 2 celli, 1930 February
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1a
BOX-FOLDER 5/33 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 1: for bassoon and cello or 2 celli, 1930 February
Ozalid of holograph score
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1b
BOX-FOLDER 5/34 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1930 March
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1c
BOX-FOLDER 5/35 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, [1930]
Manuscript score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1d
BOX-FOLDER 5/36 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1930
Ozalid of holograph score
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, 1931
Ozalids of holograph score (2)
Note: Includes annotations
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1f
BOX-FOLDER 6/2 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 2: for two clarinets, [1930]
Sketch, with paste-overs
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1e
BOX-FOLDER 6/3 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for solo flute, [1930]
Holograph score, with paste-overs
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1g
BOX-FOLDER 6/4 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for solo flute, [1930]
Holograph score
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1h
BOX-FOLDER 6/5 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 3: for two clarinets, [1930?]
Holograph fragment
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1i
BOX-FOLDER 6/6 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for oboe and cello, 1930 December
Holograph score
Formerly: ML96 .S465 Case
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1j
BOX-FOLDER 6/7 REEL 1 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for cello and oboe or cello and violin, [1930]
Holograph score
Note: Erroneously labeled as Suite no. 3
Note: Microfilm missing page 11
Available on microfilm, box 84/20216, reel 1, item 1k
BOX-FOLDER 6/8 Diaphonic suite no. 4: for oboe and cello, [1930]
Photostats of holograph score (3), one negative
BOX-FOLDER 6/9 REEL 1 Fugue in 4 voices for string quartet, undated
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