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| Business Papers, 1916-2005 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Contracts and Legal Papers, 1916-1999 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 103/23 | Paramount, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| Cover Girl | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 103/24 | Columbia, 1944-1945 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 103/25 | T. B. Harms Company, 1968-1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 103/26 | Dramatists Guild of the Authors League of America, Inc., 1949, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence; two sample producing managers contracts | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 103/27 | Essex County Symphony Society - contract and correspondence, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/1 | The Firebrand of Florence, 1944-1945 | ||||||||||||
| Funny Face | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/2 | EMI Records / World Records Club, 1970-1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/3 | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Agreement, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/4 | Gershwin, Ira - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1953, 1960, 1967, 1972, 1979-1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/5 | Gershwin Concert Orchestra, 1951-1954 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence; agreement; programs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/6 | Gershwin in New York, 1938, 1962, 1971, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/7 | Gershwin Publishing Corp., 1935, 1968 | ||||||||||||
| Agreements; amendment letters | |||||||||||||
| Girl Crazy | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/8 | Colton, Edward, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/9 | Dramatists Guild, 1930-1934, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/10 | Loew's Inc., 1931, 1938-1944, 1958 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/11 | RKO Assignment correspondence, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/12 | Washington Service Bureau materials, 1979, 1985-1986 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/13 | Give a Girl a Break, 1953? | ||||||||||||
| Harms, Inc. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/14 | Catalog, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/15 | Correspondence, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/16 | Heritage Productions Corp. - Agreements, 1953-1956 | ||||||||||||
| "Hi-Ho" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/17 | Agreement with Gershwin Publishing Corporation, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/18 | Correspondence, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/19 | Judson Radio Program Corporation - Libby, McNeill & Libby event contract, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/20 | Kiss Me, Stupid - Phalanx Productions, 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Lady in the Dark | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/21 | Correspondence and Contracts, 1940-1942, 1948-1950, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 104/22 | Rodgers and Hammerstein Contract, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Lady, Be Good! | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/1 | Correspondence, 1968 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/2 | London Royalties, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/3 | MGM Renewal Assignment, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/4 | Off Broadway Production Agreement, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/5 | Let 'Em Eat Cake - Statement of Production, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/6 | Let Me Hear the Melody - S.N. Behrman Contract, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/7 | Lyrics on Several Occasions, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/8 | Memo on available contracts on Ira Gershwin, undated | ||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/10 | Agreements, 1916-1917, 1926-1936, 1947, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/11 | Correspondence and rights documents, 1951-1952, 1962 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/9 | National Broadcasting Company, Inc. - Rights Statement, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| New World Music Corporation | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/10 | Notice of termination, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/11-13 | Warner Brothers Music, 1978 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/14 | New World Stock Agreement, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/15 | Of Thee I Sing, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/16 | Of Thee I Sing and Love in the Thirties - agreement, 1969 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/17 | Of Thee I Sing CBS TV Special - correspondence, 1972 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 105/18 | Oh, Kay! - correspondence and royalty information, 1937-1938, 1944-1952, 1958-1959, 1957-1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/1 | Park Avenue, 1946-1947 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/2 | Personal Resident Leases, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: 132 East 72nd Street, New York; 1019 North Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, California | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/3 | Philadelphia Orchestra Association - performance contract, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/4 | Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York - performance contract, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/5 | PolyGram Music Publishing Group, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Porgy and Bess | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/6 | Blevins Davis, 1935, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/7-9 | Goldwyn Film, 1956-1961 | ||||||||||||
| Memo of musical score for film; Turnover magazine special edition | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/10 | International license agreements, 1964-1975 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/11 | License agreement correspondence, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/12 | Performance grosses, 1935-1936 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/13 | Sherwin M. Goldman correspondence, 1975-1978 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 106/14 | Theatre Guild, 1935, 1941-1957, 1963-1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/1 | Reversionary rights correspondence, 1968-1972 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/2 | Rhapsody in Blue, 1941-1942 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/3 | Rhapsody in Blue - Universal Pictures, 1929 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/4 | RKO Studios, Inc. option notice, 1936-1937 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/5 | Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., 1937, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| Shall We Dance see Stepping High |
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| BOX-FOLDER 107/6 | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim litigation, 1955-1957 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/7 | Simon & Schuster Publishers - "Song Book" royalty statement, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/8 | Songwriters' Protective Association, 1931-1933, 1938-1948, 1956-1957, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence; association literature; contracts | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/9 | St. Louis Symphony Society - artist contract, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/10 | A Star Is Born, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/11 | Steinway & Sons Piano Makers - purchase invoice, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/12 | Stepping High - Chappell & Co., Inc. rights agreement, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 107/13 to 109/6 | Correspondence, 1968-1986 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding royalties, performance revenues, tax information, license agreements, rights negotiations, and general information | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 109/7 | Funny Face, 1973-1974 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence; photographs; script | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 109/8 | Funny Face; Song of the Flame; Sweet Little Devil, 1991-1994 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 109/9 | Girl Crazy - Hungary contract and correspondence, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/1 | Girl Crazy; Lady, Be Good!; Oh Kay!; Primrose; Rosalie; Tip-Toes, 1956, 1961, 1993-1994 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/2 | Louis H. Aborn correspondence, 1964-1967 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/3 | Oh, Kay! - England correspondence, 1973-1974 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Script | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/4 | Porgy and Bess, 1994, 1999, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/5 | Tell Me More, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/6 | Thompson, Fred - correspondence, 1941-1943 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/7 | Tip-Toes - correspondence, 1940-1946 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/8 | Where Do We Go from Here?, 1943-1945 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 110/9 | Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, 1936 | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress, 1938-2000 | |||||||||||||
| This subseries documents donations made by Ira, and then Leonore, over multiple decades, including the very first donation of George’s two-page holograph sketch of "Roll Dem Bones" from Porgy and Bess. It also documents collaborative projects between the Library of Congress and the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Trust Archive, such as concerts and the opening of the Gershwin Gallery exhibit. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 111/1 to 112/8 | Correspondence, 1938-2000 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Acknowledgement of first gift to the Library dated 1939 May 24. The gift included George Gershwin's holograph manuscript for the song "Roll dem Bones" from Porgy and Bess and a program for the George Gershwin memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl, 1937 September 8. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 112/5 | George Gershwin exhibit, 1971-1972 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence; photographs; clippings | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Copies of the Library of Congress Information Bulletin dated 1971 December 16 and 1972 January 20 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 540/11 | George and Ira Gershwin exhibit, 1997 November 3 | ||||||||||||
| Design plan | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/1 | Gershwin manuscript deposit memoriam, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| Note to Ira Gershwin from L. Wolfe Gilbert; photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/2 | Gershwin Room interactive media project, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Reports and invoices | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/3 | Instrument of deposit, undated | ||||||||||||
| Draft | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/4 | Inventories of donated items, 1962-1969 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Note: Some materials in Ira Gershwin's hand | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/5 | Invitations to concerts and events, 1972, 1988-1998 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 113/6 | Recording and publishing project, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Press releases; program; photograph | |||||||||||||
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