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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection, ca. 1910-1972
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Collector | Valentine, May L. |
| Title | May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection |
| Dates | ca. 1910-1972 |
| Extent | 1 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversize folder) |
| Abstract | Photographs of opera singers and conductors, collected by May Valentine, chorus director and music librarian for the Chicago Lyric Opera for 44 years. Mostly undated professional stills of individuals, plus a few stage scenes and miscellaneous group shots. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Valentine |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 1 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, May Valentine, 1973.
Processed by
Virginia Hay Smith, 2007.
Access
The May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The May Valentine Opera Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of May Valentine
Chicago chorus conductor and music librarian.
May L. Valentine was the chorus conductor and music librarian for the Chicago Civic Opera and then the Lyric Opera of Chicago for many years. After touring the world with her own comic opera troupe, she settled down to train choruses, accompany singers, and act as curator for the Chicago Lyric Opera Library.
Miss Valentine retired from the opera company in 1973 and died the following year at the age of 84.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Mainly professional photographs of opera singers and conductors, most of them undated. Also, a miscellaneous collection consisting of a few informal individual and group pictures, two stills of ballet dancers, scenes from operas staged in Chicago, and three reproduced portraits of composers.
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Arrangement
Arranged by occupation and gender, then alphabetically by name of performer.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Albanese, Licia
- Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.)
- Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962
- Garden, Mary, 1874-1967
- Karajan, Herbert von
- Kopp, Leo
- Leitner, Ferdinand
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- MacDonald, Jeanette, 1903-1965
- Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969
- McArthur, Edwin
- Nilsson, Birgit
- Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963
- Serafin, Tullio, 1878-1968
- Stevens, Risë, 1913-
- Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960
- Tozzi, Giorgio
- Valentine, May L.
- Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962
- Weber, Henry
Subjects
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century
- Conductors (Music) -- Portraits
- Opera -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century
- Photographs -- 1901-1950
- Photographs -- 1951-2000
- Singers -- Portraits
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Conductors: Breisach, Paul, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Conductors: Carlson, Christopher A., undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Conductors: Ceccato, Aldo, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Conductors: Fournet, Jean, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Conductors: v. Karajan, Herbert, ca. 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Conductors: Kopp, Leo, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Conductors: Leitner, Ferdinand, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Conductors: McArthur, Edwin, 1945-1956; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Conductors: Papi, Gennaro, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Conductors: Reiner, Fritz, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Conductors: de Sabata, Victor, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Conductors: Serafin, Tullio, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Conductors: Votto, Antonia, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Conductors: Walter, Bruno, 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Conductors: Weber, Henry, 1945; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Conductors/Singers: Unidentified, 1963-1972; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Singers, Female: Albanese, Licia, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Singers, Female: Burke, Hilda, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Singers, Female: Claessens, Maria, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Singers, Female: Claire, Marion, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Singers, Female: Cossotto, Fiorenza, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Singers, Female: Davis, Jane Gray, 1924 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Singers, Female: Flagstad, Kirsten, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Singers, Female: Garden, Mary, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Singers, Female: Glade, Coe, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Singers, Female: Jackson, Lorna Doone, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Singers, Female: LaMance, Eleanor, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Singers, Female: MacBeth, Florence, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Singers, Female: McCormic, Mary, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Singers, Female: MacDonald, Jeanette, 1945; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Singers, Female: Mason, Edith, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Singers, Female: Maxwell, Margery, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Singers, Female: Munsel, Patrice, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Singers, Female: Nilsson, Birgit, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Singers, Female: Olszewska, Maria, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Singers, Female: Pacetti, Iva, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Singers, Female: Raisa, Rosa, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Singers, Female: Rethberg, Elisabeth, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Singers, Female: Salvi, Margherita, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Singers, Female: Schroeder, Marion, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Singers, Female: Stevens, Risë, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Singers, Male: Baklanoff, Georges, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Singers, Male: Bonelli, Richard, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Singers, Male: Cavadore, Giuseppe, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Singers, Male: Cortis, Antonio, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Singers, Male: Darcy, Emery, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Singers, Male: Formichi, Cesare, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Singers, Male: Gurney, John, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Singers, Male: Habich, Eduard, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Singers, Male: Hackett, Charles, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Singers, Male: Huehn, Julius, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Singers, Male: LaMont, Forrest, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Singers, Amle: Maison, Rene, 1940; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Singers, Male: Marshall, Charles, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Singers, Male: Martinelli, Giovanni, 1940; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Singers, Male: Novikoff, Laurent, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Singers, Male: de Paolis, Alessio, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Singers, Male: Rimini, Giacomo, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Singers, Male: Ringling, Robert, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | Singers, Male: Tibbett, Lawrence, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Singers, Male: Tokatman, Armand, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Singers, Male: Tozzi, Giorgio, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Singers, Male: Trevisan, Vittorio, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Miscellaneous: Ballet Dancers, 1941; undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Miscellaneous: Groups and Individuals, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Miscellaneous: May Valentine, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Miscellaneous: Performance Scene: Lohengrin (See oversize folder), undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Miscellaneous: Performers Groups and Opera Scenes, ca. 1930-1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Miscellaneous: Pictures of Composers Foster, Puccini, Verdi, undated | |||||||||