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Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Zeisler
Abstract Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of...
Dates: 1869-1981; Majority of material found within 1883-1931

John Alden Carpenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Carpenter
Abstract

Correspondence, mostly incoming, to American composer John Alden Carpenter, wife Rue W. Carpenter and daughter Genevieve; also material relating to Carpenter’s works; a miscellany of personal records; and a collection of photographs, many of them of well-known musicians.

Dates: 1890-1964; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

Milward Adams photograph collection [OFFSITE]

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adams
Abstract

STORED OFFSITE – Contact reference@newberry.org for access. Collection of portraits of statesmen, orators, lecturers, musicians, singers, composers, and conductors collected by and autographed to Milward Adams, manager of Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1889 to 1910.

Dates: approximately 1890-1910

Nathaniel Gates Chapin collection of 136 photographs and portraits of eminent musicians

 Collection
Identifier: Case-V-25-185
Abstract

The collection was made by Nathaniel Gates Chapin (1817-1893) of Boston. It is contained in wooden box 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Includes biographical sketch of each subject of portrait in manuscript.

Dates: approximately 1890

Theodore Thomas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thomas
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.

Dates: 1852-1926

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Manuscripts, American 3
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Names
Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932 3
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 2
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 2
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 2
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936 2
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 2
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905 2
Adams, Milward, 1857-1923 1
Arliss, George, 1868-1946 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Barrymore, John, 1882-1942 1
Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 1
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 1
Briggs, Clare A., 1875-1930 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 1
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 1
Calvé, Emma, 1858-1942 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 1
Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931 1
Chapin, Nathaniel Gates, 1817-1893 1
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939 1
Foote, Arthur, 1853-1937 1
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
G. Schirmer, Inc. 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 1
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907 1
Grove, George, 1820-1900 1
Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 1
Herriman, George, 1880-1944 1
Hill, Genevieve Carpenter 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 1
Jones, Robert Edmond, 1887-1954 1
Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951 1
Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 1
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 1
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 1
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 1
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 1
McCormack, John, 1884-1945 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964 1
Morris, William, 1834-1896 1
Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964 1
Nicholson, William, 1872-1949 1
Ormandy, Eugene, 1899-1985 1
Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906 1
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 1
Powell, Maud, 1867-1920 1
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 1
Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982 1
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 1
Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 1
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 1
Szell, George, 1897-1970 1
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 1
Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929 1
Toklas, Alice B. 1
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 1
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 1
Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Zeisler, Sigmund, 1860-1931 1
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