TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1860-1926
Series 2: Guest Book, 1904-1927
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Inventory of the Theodore Thomas Papers, 1852-1926
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004 ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 |
| Title | Theodore Thomas Papers |
| Dates | 1852-1926 |
| Extent | 2.6 linear feet (3 boxes and 1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases. |
| Language | Materials are in English and German. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Thomas |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 3 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Theodore Thomas Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Purchase, 1952.
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2003.
Access
The Theodore Thomas Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Theodore Thomas Papers are 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 Theodore Thomas
German-American conductor.
Theodore Thomas was born in Esens, East Friesland, Germany, in 1835. A self-taught violinist, when the family emigrated to New York City in 1845 Thomas played with his father in small theater orchestras. At fourteen, he toured as a soloist in the southern United States and at nineteen he joined the New York Philharmonic Society. It was here that he learned conducting by observation. Thomas's debut as a conductor was of an opera about 1859. He then hired and rehearsed his own orchestra -- which was named the Theodore Thomas Orchestra -- and he conducted his first concert in May, 1862. This orchestra developed into the most precise musical ensemble known up to that time.
For twenty years, Thomas toured all over the United States, bringing the symphonic orchestra to people who had never heard one, attempting to educate the listeners by mixing both light and more serious pieces. This touring orchestra was disbanded in 1888.
Thomas was the organizer and conductor of the Cincinnati May Music Festival in 1873, director of music for the Philadelphia International Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and director of the Cincinnati College of Music in 1878-1880. He was the conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1879 until 1891, as well as touring in 1886-1887 with the American (later National) Opera Company. In 1890, fifty wealthy Chicagoans pledged to establish a symphony orchestra, which debuted in 1891 as the Chicago Orchestra. The rest of his life he gave to conducting and developing the Chicago Orchestra, which was renamed the Theodore Thomas Orchestra after Thomas's death in 1905, to be changed one more time in 1912 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In 1864 Thomas had married Minna L. Rhodes and they had five children. When Minna died in 1889 Thomas married Rose Fay, sister both of Amy Fay, a prominent violinist, and businessman Charles Fay, who was Thomas's chief booster and supporter in organizing a major Chicago orchestra. Together they raised funds to build Orchestra Hall, which was completed in 1904. Not only was he the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony, but Thomas was important for his lifelong efforts to create a nation-wide audience for classical music in the United States. He died in 1905.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Much of the correspondence relates to Thomas's final post as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, most of which is letters from well-known figures in the world of music and the arts, many of them written in German. There are a few letters and drafts of letters written by Thomas himself, and some correspondence to Rose Fay Thomas, written after Thomas's death.
Also in the collection is a guest book kept by Rose Fay Thomas beginning in 1903, which until 1927 she used as a scrapbook, containing numerous signatures, lines of music, photographs and letters of famous people. The collection of photographs includes Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Franz Liszt. The rest of the collection is a small miscellany of items such as programs, short articles, notes and memorabilia, plus typescripts of inventories of the contents of the Thomases' libraries.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1860-1926. Box(es) 1-2
- Series 2: Guest Book, 1904-1927. Box(es) 3
- Series 3: Photographs, 1872-1911. Box(es) 3
- Series 4: Miscellaneous, 1852-1911 . Box(es) 3-4
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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
- Arliss, George, 1868-1946
- Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944
- Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
- Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912
- Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924
- Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951
- Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Dvorak, Antonin, 1841-1904
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
- Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
- Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907
- Grove, George, Sir, 1820-1900
- Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907
- Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929
- Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
- MacDowell, Edward A., 1860-1908
- Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912
- Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941
- Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1905
- Powell, Maud, 1867-1920
- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
- Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921
- Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957
- Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932
- Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
- Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929
- Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Subjects
- Actors - Portraits
- Cabinet Photographs -- 1851-1900
- Cabinet Photographs -- 1901-1950
- Composers - Portraits
- Composers - History -- Sources
- Conductors (Music) -- History - Sources
- Manuscripts, American
- Manuscripts, German
- Musicians - Portraits
- Musicians - History -- Sources
- Photographs -- 1872-1911
- Singers - Portraits
- Singers - History -- Sources
- Symphony orchestras -- History -- Sources
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Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1860-1926 |
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| Letters, many in German, to Theodore Thomas from a range of persons involved in the world of music and several letters or drafts of letters written by Thomas himself. Also, letters to Rose Fay Thomas, mostly after Thomas's death in 1905, and a few to persons other than the Thomases. Among the correspondents are Amy Beach, Johannes Brahms, Daniel Burnham, John A. Carpenter, George Chadwick, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Arthur Foote, Edvard Grieg, Sir George Grove, Joseph Joachim, Lilli Lehmann, Franz Liszt, Edward MacDowell, Jules Massenet, I.J. Paderewski, John Paine, Maud Powell, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Camille Saint-Saens, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Jan Sibelius, John Philip Sousa, Richard Strauss, Piotr Tschaikowsky, and Richard Wagner. Unless otherwise noted, letters are addressed to Theodore Thomas, with several having English translations. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Arliss, George to "Dearest Lady, Nov. 2, 1916 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Azan, Paul to Rose Fay Thomas, May 10, 1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Beach, Amy (Mrs. H.H..A. Beach), 1892-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bendix, Max, Aug. 19, 1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Bischoff, H.Alex, 1879 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Blitz, E.E., May 4, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Brahms, Johannes, Sept., 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Bronsart, Ingebord, [1893] | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Buck, Dudley, 1880-1883 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Bulow, Hans von, [1868]-1872 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Burmeister, R., Nov. 1, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Burnham, Daniel H., 1893-1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Busoni, Ferruccio, 1892-1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Campanini, Italo, Apr. 20, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Cappa. Carlo A., Oct. 12, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Carpenter, John A. to Rose Fay Thomas, Mar. 17, 1920 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Carreno, Theresa, July 6, 1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Cary, Annie Louise, 1879-1881 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Cary, Annie Louise to Mr. Elwell and Miss Fay, 1881 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Chadwick, George W., 1882-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Charpentier, Gustav, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Colonne, Edouard, Aug. 15, 1899 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Converse, Charles G., 1888-1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Converse, Frederick S., 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Cowen, Frederic H.-1882, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Curtis, George William, 1882-1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Davies, Ben, 1896-1899 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | D'Indy, Vincent to Amy Fay, 1901-1911 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Dubois, Theodore to "Mon Cher Henri", May 12, 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Dvorak, Antonin, 1893-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Elgar, Edward to Rose Fay Thomas, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Ellsworth, James W. to Rose Fay Thomas, Aug. 3, 1912 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Fischer, Emil, Apr. 6, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Florio, Caryl, 1887-1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Foote, Arthur-1900, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Franchetti, Alberto, 1886-1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Friedrich, Carl, Nov. 22, 1883 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Ganz, Rudolf, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Gemunder, George, 1878-1881 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Gericke, Wilhelm to Amy or Rose Fay, 188- | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Gleason, Frederic G., Oct. 3, 1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Goldman, Edwin F. to Rose Fay Thomas, Dec. 1, 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Goldmark, Carl, 1872 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Gomez, Carlos, 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Gounod, Charles F., (telegram), Oct. 5, 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Grieg, Edvard H., Oct. 13, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Grove, Sir George, Nov.1, 1879; to Miss Fay, Jul. 16, 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Hadley, Henry, Nov. 11, 1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Hale, Philip to Rose Fay Thomas, Dec. 4, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | Halir, Carl, Jan, 31, 1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | Hamerik, Asger, Feb. 22, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | Hanslick, Eduard, Mar. 8, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | Heinrich, Max, Sept. 17, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | Henschel, George, 1881-1883 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | Hess-Wartegg, Ernst von., June 26, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | Hooper, Franklin, Feb. 8, 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | Joachim, Joseph, 1882-1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | Joseffy, Rafael; 1902-1903, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | Jungnickel, Ross, 1900-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | Katisch, Paul, Aug. 8, 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | Kaun, Hugo, 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | Klindworth, Karl, May 1, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | Koussevitsky, Sergei to Rose Fay Thomas, Jan. 13, 1925 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | Lamond, Frederic, Aug. 1, 1902 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | Lang, B.J., 1892-1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | Lanier, Mary Day, May 5, 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | Lanier, Sidney, Jan. 4, 1876 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | Lehmann, Lilli, 1886-1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | Leschetizky, Annette E., June 15, 1883 | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | Liszt, Franz, May 27, 1871 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | Lloyd, Edward, Apr. 27, [19--] | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | Loeffler, Charles Martin T., 1903-1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | Lussan, Eugenie, Oct. 7, 1882 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | Lyon & Healy, July 10, 1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 76 | MacDowell, Edward A., 1889-1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 77 | MacKenzie, Alexander C., 1884-1895 | |||||||||
| 2 | 78 | Mancinelli, Luigi, 1897-1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 79 | Manns, August, Oct. 27, 1883 | |||||||||
| 2 | 80 | Marschner, Heinrich A., Sept. 1860 | |||||||||
| 2 | 81 | Marteau, Henri, 1891-1901 | |||||||||
| 2 | 82 | Mason, William, 1889-1901 | |||||||||
| 2 | 83 | Massenet, Jules, 1892-1897 | |||||||||
| 2 | 84 | Materna, Amalie, 1881 | |||||||||
| 2 | 85 | Matmene, Waldemar, Dec. 21, 1886 | |||||||||
| 2 | 86 | Mehlig, Anna, 1871-1878 | |||||||||
| 2 | 87 | Morehead, Margaret C., 1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 88 | Nikisch,Arthur, Oct. 29, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 89 | Nilsson, Christine, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 90 | Norton, O.W. to Rose Fay Thomas, July 12, 1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 91 | Osgood, E. Aline, [1883] | |||||||||
| 2 | 92 | Paderewski, Helene to Rose Fay Thomas, [1903] | |||||||||
| 2 | 93 | Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1900-1905 | |||||||||
| 2 | 94-97 | Paine, John K., 1879-1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 98 | Pappenheim, E., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 99 | Parker, Horatio W., 1893-1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 100 | Paur, Emil, 1897 | |||||||||
| 2 | 101 | Perabo, Ernst, (fragment) [189-] | |||||||||
| 2 | 102 | Popper, Wilhelm, July 14, 1880 | |||||||||
| 2 | 103 | Potter, H.C. to William Curtis, Apr. 17, 1891 | |||||||||
| 2 | 104 | Powell, Maud, 1892-1899 | |||||||||
| 2 | 105 | Praeger, Ferdinand, 1889-1890 | |||||||||
| 2 | 106 | Reinecke, Karl, 1877-1881 | |||||||||
| 2 | 107 | Remmertz, F., Oct. 12, 1878 | |||||||||
| 2 | 108 | Richter, Hans, 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 109 | Rudersdorff, C., 1878-1880 | |||||||||
| 2 | 110 | Ryan, Thomas, Apr. 11, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 111 | Safonoff, W. to Rose Fay Thomas, 1908-1910 | |||||||||
| 2 | 112 | Saint-Gaudens, Augustus to Rose Fay Thomas, Apr. 15, 1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 113 | Saint-Saens, Camille, 1880-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 114 | Sauer, Emil, May 9, 1899 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Scaria, Emil, 1884-1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Scarritt, W.R., Apr. 3, 1879 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Scharwenka, Philipp, 1890-1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Schiller, Madeline, 1881 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1900 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Seidl, Anton, Feb. 27, 1897 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Sgambati, G., May 25, 1883 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Shelley, Harry Rowe, 1888-1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 123 | Sibelius, Jean, Apr. 18, 1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 124 | Sousa, John Philip, Mar. 17, 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 125 | Spalding, Albert to Rose Fay Thomas, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 126 | Stock, Friedrich, 1902-1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 127 | Strauss, Richard, 1883-1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 128 | Sucher, Josef, 1886 | |||||||||
| 2 | 129 | Sullivan, Arthur, July 1, 1875 | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | Svendsen, Johan, Sept. 20, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, May 17, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 132-133 | Thomas, Theodore, 1877-1900 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | Tomlins, William L., May 8, 1896 | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | Van der Stucken, F., June 14, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | Wagner, Richard to Mr. Federlein, 1875-1876 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | Wagner, Richard, 1872-1876 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | Wendel, Bernhard, [189- ] | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | Wessels, Frederick J., July 6, 1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | Whiting, Arthur, Nov. 3, 1896 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | Whiting, G.E.-1885, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | Whitney, Myron W., Sept. 6, 1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | Wieck, Marie, Feb.1, 1881; to Miss Fay, Jan. 6, 1883 | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | Wild, Harrison M., Mar. 25, 1903 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | Wilhelmj, August, 1879 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | Willard, Frances E. to [Rose Fay Thomas], May 3, 1896 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | Wolle, J. Fred, 1890-1902 | |||||||||
| 2 | 148 | Zeisler, Fannie B., 1890-1900 | |||||||||
| 2 | 149 | Zerrahn, Carl, 1879-1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 150 | Zoellner, Heinrich, July 3, 1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 151 | Zollner, [ ], May 2, 1892 | |||||||||
Series 2: Guest Book, 1904-1927 |
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| A guest book begun in 1904 by Rose Fay Thomas, signed by visiting musicians, which includes scraps of musical notation, personal comments and often an image of the signer. By 1914 - and until 1927 - apparently she was using the volume as a small scrapbook to hold pictures and letters from well-known persons. Some of the personalities represented are musicians Ferruccio Busoni, Edward Elgar, Ignatz Paderewski, Camille Saint-Saens, actors George Arliss and William Gillette, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Robert Frost, Edgar Guest, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among many others. Loose original material from the book has been removed and foldered, and photocopies on acid-free paper have been substituted. | |||||||||||
| A complete list of the contents appears in the folder list, arranged by page number. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | My Guest-Book, Rose Fay Thomas (pg. 1), 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Theodore Thomas, music and photo (pg. 2) | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Richard Strauss, music, image, program (pg. 3), 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Pauline Strauss de Alma, photo (pg. 4), 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Frederick Stock, music (pg.5), 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Rudolph and Mary Ganz, music (pg. 5), 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Sidney and Louise Homer, image (pg. 6), 1906 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Edward Elgar, music, image (pg. 7), 1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Camille Saint-Saens, letter, image (pg. 8), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | I.J.Paderewski, music, image, program (pg. 9-10), 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Helena Paderewski (pg. 10), 1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Lawrence and Alma Tadema, image, note (pg. 10), 1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Ernest H. Schelling, music (pg. 11), 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Kneisel Quartet, image, note (pg. 12), 1908-1912 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Franz Liszt, 2 carte de visites (pg. 13), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Daniel H. Burnham, image, (pg. 15): orig. removed to folder 153, 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Ernest and Anna Consolo, 1909 (pg. 15), 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Adela Verne, photo (pg.15), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | George W. Chadwick (pg. 16), 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Gerda Busoni, note (pg. 17), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Ferruccio Busoni and family, music, photo (pg. 18), 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Fannie B. Zeisler, music, image pg. 19), 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Elvira De Hidalgo, photo, clipping (pg. 20), 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Herbert Witherspoon, image (pg. 20), 1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Horatio Parker, photo (pg. 21), 1903 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink, photo (pg. 22), 1900 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | William Gillette, letter, image, (pg. 23): orig. removed to folder 154, 1911 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Mischa Elman,music, image (pg. 23), 1911 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Percy Kahn, signature (pg. 23), 1911 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | George Arliss, letter, image, signature (pg. 24): orig. removed to folder 155, signature, 1911, 1918 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Amy Fay, photo (pg. 25), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Albert Spalding, letter, music, images (pg. 26): orig. removed to folder 156, 1917, 1919 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Bert Leston Taylor, clipping, image (pg. 27), 1912 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Maud Powell, music, photo (pg. 28), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Roald Amundesen, signature, images, flag (pg. 29): orig. removed to follder 157, 1913 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Robert E. Peary, signature, flag image (pg. 30), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Wilbur Wright, letter (pg. 31): orig. removed to folder 158, 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Orville Wright, letter, clipping (pg. 31), 1914 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Col. James H. Lewis, signature, photo of machine gun (pg. 32), 1918 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Robert Frost, letter, clipping (pg. 33): orig. removed to folder 159, 1915 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Isabella Stewart Gardner (pg. 34): orig. removed to folder 160, 1917 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | John A. Carpenter, letters, photo (pg. 35): orig. removed to folder 161, 1917, 1928 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Lt. Col. Paul Azan, letter, image (pg. 36): orig. removed to folder 162, 1923 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | John T. McCutcheon, letter, clipping (pg. 37): orig. removed to folder 163, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Bradford Torrey, letter (pg. 38): orig. removed to folder 164, 1903 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Philip Gibbs, letter, clipping (pg. 39): orig. removed to folder 165, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Robert Grant, letter (pg. 40): orig. removed to folder 166, 1922 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | John W. Weeks, letters, n.d. (pg. 41): orig. removed to folder 167, n.d., 1924 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter, image (pg. 43): orig. removed to folder 168, 1879 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Henriette, Princess of Belgium, photo, clippings (pg. 44), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Vincent D'Indy, calling card, image (pg. 46): orig. removed to folder 169, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Serge Koussevitsky, letter (pg. 47): orig. removed to folder 170, 1927 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Edgar A. Guest, letter, clipping (pg. 47): orig. removed to folder 171, 1927 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Louis Lefevre (for Clemenceau), letter (pg. 48): orig. removed to folder 172, 1922 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | John J. Pershing, letter (pg. 48): orig. removed to folder 173, 1923 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Byard, Theodore, signature (pg. 48), 1910 | |||||||||
| 3 | 153-173 | Original correspondence removed from Guest Book | |||||||||
Series 3: Photographs, 1872-1911 |
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| Images, mainly cabinet photographs, of composers, musicians and performers. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Page Number | Contents | |||||||||
| 3 | 174 | Aus der Ohe, Adele, 1894 | |||||||||
| 3 | 175 | Baird, Frank; E. Tramanti, 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 176 | Bischoff, Alex., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 177 | Brahms, Johannes, 1882 | |||||||||
| 3 | 178 | Busoni, Ferruccio, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 179 | Candidus, Wm., 1882 | |||||||||
| 3 | 180 | Deppe, Ludwig, 1903 | |||||||||
| 3 | 181 | Elgar, Edward, 1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 182 | Hofmann, Josef, 1898 | |||||||||
| 3 | 183 | Joseffy, Rafael, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 184 | Kramer, Leopold (see Oversize Box), 1903 | |||||||||
| 3 | 185 | Liszt, Franz, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 186 | Lloyd, Edward, 1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 187 | Marsick, Martin P. (See Oversize Box), 1895 | |||||||||
| 3 | 188 | Marteau, Henri, 1894 | |||||||||
| 3 | 189 | Paderewski, Ignace Jan, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 190 | Paine, John K., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 191 | Pappenheim, E., 1878 | |||||||||
| 3 | 192 | Powell, Maud, 1893 | |||||||||
| 3 | 193 | Rappold, Marie, 1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 194 | Remenyi, Eduard, 1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 195 | Sauer, Emil, 1899 | |||||||||
| 3 | 196 | Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 197 | Siloti, Alexander I. (with Franz Liszt), (see Oversize Box), 1898 | |||||||||
| 3 | 198 | Sterling, Antoinette, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 199 | Svendsen, Johan, 1871 | |||||||||
| 3 | 200 | Thomas, Theodore, May, 1891 | |||||||||
| 3 | 200a | Thomas, Theodore: photoreproductions, many used in Upton biography, 1964 edition | |||||||||
| 3 | 201 | Zeisler, Fannie B., 1911 | |||||||||
| 3 | 202 | Unidentified cabinet portrait | |||||||||
Series 4: Miscellaneous, 1852-1911 |
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| Programs and notes of Theodore Thomas, photocopy of an inventory of the Thomases' library at Felsengarten, a program of a Jenny Lind concert, and a few other miscellaneous items. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by author and/or subject. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 3 | 203 | Lind, Jenny: Program, [Oct., 1852] | |||||||||
| 3 | 204 | Schulze, Richard & Theodora: "The Felsengarten Collection", (photocopy of the Thomas library), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 205 | Schulze, Theodora: "Symphonic Refuge", (photocopy of article in draft), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 206 | Swing, David: Notes for an address on Theodore Thomas, 1881 | |||||||||
| 3 | 207 | Thomas, Rose Fay: Ad for Memoirs of Theodore Thomas, [1911] | |||||||||
| 3 | 208 | Thomas, Theodore: Agreement with the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876 | |||||||||
| 3 | 209 | [Thomas, Theodore]: Essay in German | |||||||||
| 3 | 210 | Thomas, Theodore: Program and program notes, n.d., 1895 | |||||||||
| 3 | 211 | Thomas, Theodore: Testimonial dinner, clipping, 1891 | |||||||||
| 3 | 212 | Thomas, Theodore: "Theodore Thomas' Estimate of the Value of the Work of the Masters of Cremona," [1903] | |||||||||
| 4 | -- | Oversize: 3 photographs removed from Series 3 | |||||||||
Related Material
The Newberry Library also holds several hundred musical scores and music books owned by Theodore Thomas, as well as scrapbooks of his concert programs, 1864-1903. The scrapbooks are available on microfilm. See the online catalog for more information about any of these materials.
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