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United States of America
Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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Institution names followed by  are members of SIBMAS
Catholic University of America
Music Library
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Ward Music Building
620 Michigan Avenue NE
Washington, DC 20064
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Telephone: +1 (202) 319 5424
Telefax: +1 (202) 319 6101
Homepage: http://www.Cua.Edu/www/MUL/
- Subjects:
- Music/Music performance.
- Media:
- Books.
Districh of Columbia Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
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901 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Telephone: +1 (202) 727 1213
Homepage: http://www.dclibrary.org/
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Opera. Ballet/dance.
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
- Special Collections:
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Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archives (1993-)
Folger Shakespeare Library
Date founded: 1932
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201 E. Capitol Street
Washington, DC 20003-1094
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Telephone: +1 (202) 544 4600
Telefax: +1 (202) 544 4623
E-mail: Registrar@folger.edu
Homepage: http://www.folger.edu/
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Written application required. Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Card. Printed. Other
On-site use only.
Reproductions: In house.
Exhibitions.
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos.
Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence.
Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans.
Costumes. Models. Videos/films/DVDs. Official
documents. Masks. Paintings. Graphics. Statuary.
Objects d'art. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs.
Production material.
- Special Collections:
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Covent Garden Theatre (London) (18th century)
Drury Lane Theatre (London) (18th century)
Shakespeare Theatre Company
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Augustin Daly (1838-1899), theatre director, critic
David Garrick (1717-1779), actor, manager, playwright
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), dramatist
Wing Collection
Ford's Theatre/Lincoln Museum
Date founded: 1932
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511 10th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Telephone: +1 (202) 426 6924
Telefax: +1 (202) 426 1845
E-mail: ford's_theatre@nps.gov
Homepage: http://www.nps.gov/foth/
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Reproductions: By user. In house.
Exhibitions.
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Photos. Correspondence. Clippings. Posters. Official documents. Graphics. Statuary. Memorabilia.
George Washington University
Melvin Gelman Library
Special Collections
Date founded: 1821
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2130 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
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Telephone: +1 (202) 994 6455
Telefax: +1 (202) 463 6205
E-mail: astewart@gwu.edu
- Special Collections:
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Dance
Georgetown University
Joseph Mark Lauinger Library
Special Collections Division
Date founded: 1789
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3700 O Street NW, Room 529
Washington, DC 20057-1174
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Telephone: +1 (202) 687 7444
Telefax: +1 (202) 687 7501
E-mail: barringg@georgetown.edu
Homepage: http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/
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Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Printed
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. In house.
Exhibitions.
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Puppet theatre. Amateur theatre. Cinema. Radio/TV.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans. Costumes. Masks. Production material.
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Posters
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Department of Defense Film [relations with Hollywood, TV productions, 1948-1960]
Quigley Publishing Company (1906-1972), photographic archives
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Grace Albee, artist
Thomas Armat, inventor of motion picture projector [papers, 1911-1928]
Kenneth Aguillard Atchity, writer [papers, 1962?-1994]
Patrick T. Bakman (1944-1990), director [papers, 1891-1991]
Philip Barry (1896-1949), playwright
John Barrymore, actor [cartoons drawn by Barrymore]
Biddie family [papers]
William Peter Blatty, writer [papers, 1949?-1970]
Ernest W. Boyer, painter
Louise Miller Boyer, artist
Boyer family [papers, correspondence by Julie Rivé-King]
Nicholas F. Brady [literary manuscripts and first editions]
John M. Cohen, broadcaster [Sitwell-Cohen collection, 1923?-1964]
Aaron Copland [i.e. Aaron Caplan] (1900-1990), composer
Mercedes De Acosta (1893-1990), scriptwriter, social commentator
Charles Dickens, writer
William R. Downs, radio and televisioin journalist
Desmond Egan, poet [papers]
C.S. Forester, writer
Aline Fruhauf (1907-1978), caricaturist [portraits of Washington musical figures, 1950s and 1960s]
Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939), music critic [papers 1901-1948]
Robert Girardi, writer [papers]
Anton Gloetzner [collection, 1825-1910?]
M. Green
Graham (Henry Graham) Greene (1904-1991), writer [Sitwell-Searle collection, 1923?-1964]
Harman Grisewood, writer, radio broadcaster
Harris, Marguerite Tjader (1901-1986), writer [papers, 1930?-1968]
Paul Chandler Hume (1915-), music critic [papers, 1871-1997]
Washington Irving, writer [letterbook]
Elizabeth Jennings, writer
Joseph Kaye (1898-1975), collection of typescripts of plays and musicals
Joyce Kilmer, writer [papers]
Helen King Boyer, artist
James Laver (1899-1975), author, art critic [papers 1918-1977]
Shane Leslie, writer [papers]
Irving Levy [19th century American authors]
Stephen Masset, composer, author, entertainer [papers]
Edith S. Mayfield, collector [Algernon Charles Swinburne]
John S. Mayfield, collector [Algernon Charles Swinburne]
Theodore Maynard, writer [papers, 1903?-1956]
James P.J. Murphy [papers]
Ned O'Gorman, writer [papers]
Mary O'Hara, writer [papers, 1943-1985]
Wilfried Parsons, editor [papers, 1908-1958]
Martin J. Quigley, publisher [papers, 1917-1970]
Terry Ramsaye (1895-1986), editor [papers, 1895-1986]
Alan Redway, Graham Greene bibliographer [papers]
Leonard Reed, writer [Joseph Kaye collection]
Max Reinhardt [papers]
Frank Reynolds, radio and television journalist [papers]
Edward Rice, writer, photographer, editor
Julie Rivé-King (1854-1937), pianist, composer
Leon Robbin [music manuscripts and letters of composers, 1775-1924]
Felix G. Robinson, director [papers 1793-1967]
Adolf Schaller (1956-), artist [collection]
Russel Shaw, writer [papers]
Walter Shewring, poet [papers]
Dame Edith Sitwell, writer, actress [Sitwell-Cohen collection, 1923?-1964, Sitwell-Searle collection, 1923?-1964]
William Grant Still, composer
Lawrence Suid [papers]
Paul R. Sullivan [documentation of The Blue and Gray Show] [papers, 1930-1961]
Algernon Charles Swinburne, writer
Christopher Sykes, writer [papers, 1945?-1981]
Evelyn Waugh, writer
Arnold U. Ziegler, collector [Charles Dickens collection]
Historical Society of Washington, DC
Library of Washington History
Date founded: 1894
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1307 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036-1503
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Telephone: +1 (202) 785 2068
Telefax: +1 (202) 887 5785
Howard University
Founders Library
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500 Howard Place NW
Washington, DC 20059
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Telephone: +1 (202) 806 7252
Telefax: +1 (202) 806 5903
E-mail: mmekkawi@fac.howard.edu
Homepage: http://www.howard.edu/
- Media:
- Books.
- Special Collections:
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Channing Pollock [theatre collection]
Howard University
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Library
Date founded: 1914
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500 Howard Place NW
Washington, DC 20059
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Telephone: +1 (202) 806 7239
Telefax: +1 (202) 806 6405
Homepage: http://www.howard.edu/
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- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Scores/libretti/music.
- Special Collections:
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Musical Spillers
Washington Conservatory of Music (1887-1966)
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R. Louise Burge (1908-1986), singer [Afro-American music]
C. Glenn Carrington (1904-1975), social worker, collector [Black Americana relating to the arts and culture]
Will Marion Cook (1869-1944), composer
Will Mercer Cook (1903-1987), scolar, diplomat
Anne Cooke, actor, playwright [materials belonging to Shipp]
Owen Vincent Dodson (1914-1983), writer, playwright
Alexandre père Dumas (1802-1870), writer
Thomas Montgomery Gregory (1888-1971), playwright
Hazel Harrison (1883-1969), pianist
Revella Hughes (1895-1986), jazz and classical pianist, organist
Georgia Douglass Johnson (1877-1966), writer, playwright
Louis Vaughn Jones (1895-1965), violinist
James Reginald Logan, musician [scrapbooks, 1948-1954]
Walter Howard Loving (1872-1945), musician
Rose McClendon [photograph collection]
Abbie Mitchell (1884-1960), singer, actress
Alfonce Mizell, composer
Freddie Perren, composer
Andy Razaf (1895-1973), poet, lyricist, songwriter
Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds (1901-1980), psychologist, actress, dancer, model
Paul Robeson (1898-1976), actor
Shipp, actor, playwright
Spiller, Isabele Taliaferro (1888-1974), musician [Musical Spillers]
Arthur Barnett Spingarn (1878-1971), attorney [music collection]
LeRoy Tibbs, nightclub pianist
Marie Young Tibbs, actress
Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), author, playwright
Leigh R. Whipper (1877-1975), actor, playwright
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington
Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum
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701 3rd Street NW
Washington, DC
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600 I Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Telephone: +1 (202) 789 0900
Telefax: +1 (202) 789 0485
E-mail: info@jhsgw.org
Homepage: http://www.jhsgw.org
Written application required.
- Special Collections:
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Jewish community (Washington, DC) (mid-19th century-)
John F. Kenedy Center Artsedge
Performing Arts Library
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Washington, DC 20566
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Telephone: +1 (202) 707 6245
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League of Historic American Theatres
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1511 K Street NW, Suite 923
Washington, DC 20005-1480
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Telephone: +1 (202) 783 6966
Telefax: +1 (202) 393 2141
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
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101 Independence Avenue at First Street SE
Washington, DC 20540
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Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
- Special Collections:
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Amos 'n' Andy Radio Scripts (1928-1939)
Columbia Broadcasting System [Radio Scripts]
Copyright Drama Collection (1900-)
Federal Theatre (Washington, DC)
General Foods Corporation [Radio Scripts]
Players' Club (New York City)
Vic and Sade Radio Scripts (1934-1937)
WOR Radio and TV Records
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Goodman Ace (1899-1982)
Maude Adams (1872-1953), actress
Olivia Cushing Andersen
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), playwright
Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), showman
Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ballet public relations
Franziska Boas, dancer
Alfred Bofinger (1891-1959), writer, journalist
Sid Caesar (1922-), actor, musician, comedian
Hume Cronyn (1911), actor, screenwriter, theatre director
Charlotte Saunders Cushman (1816-1876), actress
Allan Davis (1885-1929), dramatist
Wythe Beale Denby
Henry Denker (1912-), playwright
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842-1932)
Gatewood W. Dunston [pseud: W.S. Hart] (1914-1955), actor, author, director
W.C. Fields [i.e. William Claude Dukenfield] (1879-1946), actor
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932), actress, playwright
John Thomson Ford (1829-1904), theatre executive
Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), actor
George Geltzer (1944-1976), film historian
Lillian Gish [i.e. Lillian de Guiche] (1896-1993), actress
Ruth Gordon (1924-1969), actress, playwright
Paul Eliot Green (1894-1984), playwright
Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt (1871-1950), musician, author
Jed Harris (1900-1979), theatre producer
Ben Hecht (1893-1964), dramatist
Lillian Florence Hellman (1905-1984), playwright
Bronson Crocker Howard (1842-1908), playwright
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), dramatist
Thomas Harper Ince (1882-1924), film producer, author
Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), actor
Ellen Jensen (1914-1971)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), dramatist
Lizzie Jeremy (1860-1924), actress
Garson Kanin (1941-1964), playwright, director
Donald J. Kaufman (1877-1914) [Oscar Wilde Collection]
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961), playwright
Laura Keene (1826-1873), actress, impressario
Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble (1809-1893) [actress]
Sidney Kingsley (1906-), dramatist
George Kleine (1864-1931), film executive, impressario
Sherman Krellberg (1892-1979), film producer
Lucy Kroll (1937-1991), theatrical agent
Jean Margaret Davenport Lander (1836-1869), actress
Rowland V. Lee (1914-1959), director, actor, producer
Joshua Logan (1890-1986), director, producer, dramatist
Lawrence Marwick [copyrighted Yiddish plays]
Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx (1895-1977), actor
John Masefield (1878-1967), dramatist
Philip Massinger (1583-1640), dramatist
Adah Isaacs Mencken (1835-1868), actress, poet
Robert Merry (1755-1798), poet, dramatist
George Middleton (1880-1967), dramatist
Arnold Moss (1911-), actor, director, producer
Nazimova (1879-1945), actress
Clifford Odets (1906-1963), dramatist
Channing Pollock (1880-1946), playwright
Vincent Price (1911-), actor
Muriel Resnik, dramatist
May Robson (1865-1942), author, actress
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), writer
Rod Serling (1924-), author
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), playwright
Robert Emmett Sherwood (1896-1955), writer
Claire Sifton, playwright
Paul Sifton, playwright
Harold Sintzenich (1912-1973), cameraman
Oscar G.T. Sonneck (1873-1928), musician
Edward Sothern (1859-1933), actor
Laurence Edmund Spivak (1900-1994), journalist
Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968), dancer, choreographer
Marie Taglioni (1804-1884), dancer
Jessica Tandy, actress
Albert Terhune (1872-1942), writer
Ellen Terry (1848-1928), actress
Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), ventriloquist
Miriam Cooper Walsh (1891-1976), film actress
Fredi Washington (1903-), actress, dancer
Margaret Webster (1905-1972), actress, producer, author
Mae West (1892-1980), actress, playwright
Oscar Wilde [i.e. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills] (1854-1900), writer
Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859-1915), vaudevillian
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), dramatist
Paul Wilstach [pseud: Richard Mansfield], actor
Charles Withers (1919-1943), vaudevillian
Samuel S. Yoder (1841-1921)
Library of Congress
Copyright Deposit Play Collection
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101 Independence Avenue at First Street SE
Washington, DC 20540
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Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
Library of Congress
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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101 Independence Avenue at First Street SE
James Madison Building, LM 113
Washington, DC 20540-4690
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Telephone: +1 (202) 707 5840
Telefax: +1 (202) 707 2371
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/
Online-Catalog: http://star1.loc.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=son
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archives
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Written application required. Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card
On-site use only. Materials loan.
Reproductions: By user. In house. By company.
Exhibitions.
- Subjects:
- Cinema. Radio/TV.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Photos. Clippings. Videos/films/DVDs. Sound recordings/CDs.
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Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
Film
Radio
Sound recording
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Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) (1942-1998)
Berliner Gramophone Company [recordings]
Coolidge Auditorium [Library of Congress] Concert Series (1937-)
National Public Radio (NPR) (1971-1992)
NBC Radio (1935-1970) [broadcast discs]
Office of War Information (OWI) (1942-1945)
United Nations recordings
Voice of America (VOA) (1946-1988)
WOR-AM collection
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Robert Altshuler [Classic blues and jazz recordings (1917-1985)]
Pearl Bailey [sound recordings]
Karl Bambach [John McCormack Collection]
Charlie Barnet [sound recordings]
Louie Bellson [sound recordings]
Joel Berger [Recordings of Imperial Russian Opera singers]
Emile Berliner
Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer [sound recordings]
Allan Chasanoff [Amazing Grace Collection]
Copland, Aaron, composer [sound recordings]
Duke Ellington, jazz musician [sound recordings]
Raymon Elozua [Amazing Grace Collection]
Nesuhi Ertegun [Jelly Roll Morton Collection]
Geraldine Farrar, singer [sound recordings]
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer [sound recordings]
Bob Fosse, director [collection]
Frederick Klinger [Classic blues and jazz recordings (1917-1985)]
André Kostelanetz [sound recordings]
John McCormack, opera singer [sound recordings]
Carmen McRae [sound recordings]
Charles Mingus [sound recordings]
Jelly Roll Morton, piano player
Rosa Ponselle [sound recordings]
Maud Powell, violinist
Serge Rachmaninoff, composer [sound recordings]
Sigmund Romberg [sound recordings]
John Secrist [Commercial classical music releases (1902-1925)]
Billy Taylor [sound recordings]
Jerry Valburn [Duke Ellington Collection]
Gwen Verdon
Library of Congress
Music Division
Date founded: 1897
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James Madison Building, LM 113
Washington, DC 20540
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Telephone: +1 (202) 287 5507
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
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- Subjects:
- Music/Music performance.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Photos. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
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American popular music
Dance manuals (1900-1921)
Folk fiddle music
Music, African-American (1938-1943)
Music, band (Civil War)
Native American Culture
Sheet music, African-American (1850-1920)
Thai collection
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Amateur Hour
American Harp Society
Arsis Press [women composers]
Budapest String Quartet
Chautaugua Performers (1904-1940)
Edison Companies [film and sound recordings]
Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939)
Heineman Foundation Collection
Modern Music (1924-1946)
Music Box Theatre (New York City)
National Negro Opera Company
Peabody Museum Collection, enthnological sound recordings, 1890s-1910s
Resettlement Administration Collection, field recordings of American folk music, 1936-1937
Arthur P. Schmidt Company
Tams-Witmark Rental Score Collection
University of Arkansas Collection, recordings of Arkansas folk music, 1940s-1960s
University of Wisconsin Collection, recordings of Wisconsin folk music, 1940-1946
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George Antheil, composer
Ernst Bacon, composer
Samuel Barber, composer
Charlie Barnet, saxophonist
William A. Barnhill [photographs of North Carolina folklife]
Bartók, Béla, composer
John Davis Batchelder
Harold Bauer
Paul Bekker (1882-1937), music critic
Irving Berlin (1888-1989), composer
Emile Berliner (1870-1956)
Leonard Bernstein [pseud.: Lenny Amber] (1918-1990), conductor, composer, writer
Ernest Bloch, composer, conductor
Fanziska Boas, choreographer
William Batchelder Bradbury
Frank C. Brown (1870-1943), folklorist [North Carolina folk music, 1910s-1940s]
John Alden Carpenter
Tom Carter, folklorist [North Carolina folk music]
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953), philanthropist [chamber music manuscripts]
Aaron Copland [i.e. Aaron Caplan] (1900-1990), composer
Sidney Robertson Cowell [Northern California folk music from the Thirties]
Cremonese Collection
Damrosch Family, musicians
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovic (1872-1929), choreographer
Vernon Duke [i.e. Vladimir Dukelsky], composer
Carl Engel, musicologist, writer
Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), opera singer [papers, pictorial material, recordings]
Austin E. Fife, musicologist [Utah folk music, 1946-1947]
Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer
Bob Fosse, dancer, choreographer
Marya Freund, singer
George Gershwin (1898-1937), composer
Ira Gershwin (1896-1963), composer
Alma Gluck [i.e. Reba Fiersohn] (1884-1938), opera singer
Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), pianist
Julius Gold (1884-1969), musicologist
William P. Gottlieb [photographs, Golden Age of Jazz]
Percy (George Percy Aldridge) Grainger (1896-1961), pianist, composer
Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolph von) Grofé (1892-1972), composer
Glenn Dillard Gunn, pianist, music critic
Woody Guthrie, folk singer [correspondence, 1940-1950]
Joseph S. Hall, musicologist [Great Smoky Mountain folklore recordings, 1930s-1960s]
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), librettist
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), violinst
Victor August Herbert (1859-1924), composer, conductor, cellist
Irene Heskes, musicologist
George Hodges
Zora Neale Hurston [plays]
Carrie Jacobs-Bond, publisher
Charles Jahant [opera singers]
Danny Kaye, actor
Silvia Fine Kaye, composer
Jerome Kern, composer
Hans Kindler
Otto Klemperer, conductor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
Georg Korson, musicologist [coal miner music]
Andre Kostelanetz, conductor
Natalie Koussevitzky
Olga Koussevitzky
Serge Koussevitzky, conductor
Fritz Kreisler, composer
Harry Lepman
Sarah Lepman
Sergei Lifar, dancer
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler, composer, violinist
Paul Löwenberg [Viennese dance music]
John Lomax [Southern US folk music]
Ruby Lomax [Southern US folk music]
Edward MacDowell
Marian MacDowell
Loretta C. Manggrum, composer, church musician
Lowell Mason [19th century European school music books]
Osborne McConathy [19th century European school music books]
John Herbert McDowell, composer
Leonora Jackson McKim, violinist [manuscripts of contemporary chamber works for violin and piano]
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880-1951), pianist, composer
Felix Mendelssohn
David Merrick, producer
Dayton C. Miller (1866-1941), phsicist, flutist [flute collection]
Charles Mingus, composer, bassist, bandleader
Rosaleen Moldenhauer [archives]
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
William Newland, musician
Blanton Owen [North Carolina folk music]
Nicolò Paganini, violinist
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), composer [music manuscripts, papers, record collection]
Juan Bautista Rael [Hispano music and culture from the Northern Rio Grande]
Vance Randolph (1892-1980), folklorist [Ozark folk music, 1930s-1960s]
Henry Reed [Fiddle tunes of the old frontier]
Roger Reynolds (1934-), composer
Mrs. Giles F. Rich
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), composer [manuscripts]
Sigmund (Zsigmond) Romberg (1887-1951), composer
Kathleen Rose, show girl
Harry Rosenthal
Artur Rubinstein (1886-1982), composer
Francis Maria Scala, composer
Albert Schatz [opera librettos]
Artur Schnabel, pianist, composer
Arnold Schoenberg, composer
William Howard Schuman, composer
Irving Schwerké, musicologist
Charles Seeger, musicologist, ethnomusicologist
Ruth Crawford Seeger, compsoer
Gisela Selden-Goth, musicologist, composer
Roger Sessions
Elie Siegmeister
Beverly Silly, singer
Nicolas Slonimsky, lexicographer, conductor, composer
Robert Sonkin [Migrant Worker Collection; Dust Bowl Folk Music]
Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
John Philip Sousa, composer
Hans Spialek (1894-1983), composer, orchestrator, arranger
Harold Spivacke (1904-1977), musicologist, music librarian
Rose Marie Spivacke
Clara Steuermann, music librarian
Edward Steuermann, composer
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), composer
William Remsen Strickland, conductor
Henryk Szeryng
Harry von Tilzer, publisher
Charles L. Todd [Migrant Worker Collection; Dust Bowl Folk Music]
Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky (1911-1990), composer
Gwen Vernon, dancer, singer
Samuel Prowse Warren
Edward N. Waters
Lilly L. Waters
Hugo Weisgall, composer
Gertrude Clarke Whittall [Nicolo Paganini, Felix Mendelssohn]
H. Blackiston Wilkins, curator
Vincent Youmans (1898-1946), composer
Charles Zeuner (1795-1857), organist, pianist, composer
Library of Congress
Performing Arts Library
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JFK Center for the Performing Arts (903 54 04)
Washington, DC 20566
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Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
Library of Congress
Performing Arts Reading Room
Date founded: 1897
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101 Independence Avenue, SE
Room LM 113
Washington, DC 20540-4710
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Telephone: +1 (202) 707 5507
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/
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Monday:
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8:30-17:00
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Tuesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Wednesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Thursday:
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8:30-17:00
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Friday:
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8:30-17:00
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Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
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101 Independence Avenue at First Street SE
Washington, DC 20540-4730
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Telephone: +1 (202) 287 6394
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
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Monday:
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8:30-17:00
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Tuesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Wednesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Thursday:
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8:30-17:00
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Friday:
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8:30-17:00
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- Special Collections:
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Léon Bakst [i.e. Lev Samouilovitch Rosenberg] (1866-1924), painter, scenographer
Isadora Duncan, dancer
Arnold Genthe (-1942), photographer
Alfred Cheney Johnston
Library of Congress
Rare Book and Special Collections
Date founded: 1800
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Washington, DC 20540-4860
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Telephone: +1 (202) 707 5434
Telefax: +1 (202) 707 4142
E-mail: rbsc@loc.gov
Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/
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Monday:
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8:30-17:00
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Tuesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Wednesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Thursday:
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8:30-17:00
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Friday:
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8:30-17:00
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Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Printed. Other
Exchange of material.
Reproductions: By user. In house. By company.
Exhibitions.
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Operetta/Musical. Pantomime/mime. Children's theatre. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Circus. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations. Other.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Scores/libretti/music. Memorabilia. Other.
- Special Collections:
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Broadside songs
Comic books
Dime novels
Playbills, theatre
Plays, manuscript
Plays (Spanish) (1812-1930s)
Posters
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Reserve Storage Drama Collection
United Artists [American films 1913-1948]
Work Projects Administration [posters]
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Martha Graham (1894-1991), dancer
Harry Houdini, magician
Francis Longe [collection]
McManus-Young Collection [magic]
Raymond Toinet [collection of French literature]
Library of Congress
Recorded Sound Reference Center
Date founded: 1926
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James Madison Building
101 Independence Avenue S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4690
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Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/
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Monday:
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8:30-17:00
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Tuesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Wednesday:
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8:30-17:00
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Thursday:
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8:30-17:00
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Friday:
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8:30-17:00
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- Special Collections:
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Archive of Recorded Poety and Literature
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Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) (1942-1998)
Berliner Gramophone Company
Coolidge Auditorium Concert Series
NBC collection (1930s-1980s)
National Public Radio (NPR) (1971-1992)
Office of War Information (OWI) (1942-1945)
Voice of America (VOA) (1971-1992)
WOR-AM Collection
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Robert Altshuler [blues and jazz recordings]
Pearl Bailey, jazz singer
Karl Bambach [John McCormack collection]
Charlie Barnet, jazz musician
Louie Bellson, jazz musician
Emile Berliner, inventor [recording collection]
Leonard Bernstein [pseud.: Lenny Amber] (1918-1990), conductor, composer, writer
Aaron Copland [i.e. Aaron Caplan] (1900-1990), composer
Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899-1974), pianist, bandleader, composer
Nesuhi Ertegun (1917-1989), record producer [Jelly Roll Morton collection]
Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), opera singer
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), singer
Frederick Klinger [blues and jazz recordings]
André Kostelanetz
Phillips H. Lord
John McCormack, opera singer
Carmen McRae, jazz singer
Charles Mingus, jazz musician
Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pianist, composer [recordings]
Rosa Ponselle
Maud Powell, violinist
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), composer
Sigmund (Zsigmond) Romberg (1887-1951), composer
John Secrist [commercial classical music releases, 1902-1925]
Billy Taylor, jazz musician
Jerry Valburn, jazz musician [Duke Ellington collection]
National Archives
Date founded: 1934
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Constitution Avenue & 7th Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20408
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Telephone: +1 (202) 501 5500
Telefax: +1 (202) 501 5005
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National Archives and Records Administration
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8th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20408
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Telephone: +1 (202) 501 5415
Telefax: +1 (202) 219 1543
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Monday:
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8:45-17:15
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Tuesday:
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8:45-17:15
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Wednesday:
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8:45-17:15
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Thursday:
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8:45-17:15
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Friday:
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8:45-17:15
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National Association of Broadcasters
Library
Date founded: 1946
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1771 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-2891
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Telephone: +1 (202) 429 5490
Telefax: +1 (202) 775 3520
E-mail: shill@nab.org
Homepage: http://nab.org/www/userguid/libhome.htm
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Monday:
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11:00-16:00
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Tuesday:
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11:00-16:00
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Wednesday:
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11:00-16:00
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Thursday:
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11:00-16:00
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Friday:
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11:00-16:00
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Written application required. Fees for using facility. Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. In house.
- Subjects:
- Radio/TV.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Clippings. Official documents. Other.
- Special Collections:
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National Association of Broadcasters
National Building Museum
Date founded: 1980
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401 D Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Telephone: +1 (202) 272 2448
Telefax: +1 (202) 272 2564
National Endowment for the Arts
Library
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1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 213
Washington, DC 20506
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Telephone: +1 (202) 682 5485
Telefax: +1 (202) 682 5676
National Endowment for the Humanities
Library
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1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506
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Telephone: +1 (202) 606 8244
Telefax: +1 (202) 606 8457
E-mail: erahim@neh.fed.us
National Museum of American History
Archives Center
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12th, 14th and Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20560-0601
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 3270
Telefax: +1 (202) 357 1729, 786 2453
E-mail: archivescenter@nmah.si.edu
Homepage: http://americanhistory.si.edu/
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Monday:
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10:00-17:00
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Tuesday:
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10:00-17:00
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Wednesday:
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12:00-17:00
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Thursday:
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10:00-17:00
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Friday:
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10:00-17:00
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Written application required.
- Special Collections:
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American Music Collection
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N.W. Ayer Advertising Agency (1849-1996)
Chickering & Sons Piano Company (1864-1985)
Industry on Parade (1950-1960)
Martin and Morris Music Company (1930-1985)
Sohmer & Company (1872-1989)
Wade in the Water Radio Series, sacred African American music
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana (1790?-1945)
Wurlitzer Company (1860-1987)
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Helen May Butler (1898-1987), bandmaster [collection 1898-1937]
Paul Cadwell [banjo collection, 1880-1980]
Sam De Vincent [collection of illustrated American sheet music, 1790-1980]
Joel Dorn, jazz producer, disc jockey [papers 1966-1987]
Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899-1974), pianist, bandleader, composer
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), singer
Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx (1895-1977), actor
Ray McKinley [music and ephemera collection]
Albert F. Moglie [violinists and violin-making collection, 1917-1985]
J. Scott Odell [collection of folk music 1964-1977]
Franz Schiffman [Apollo Theater collection]
Theodore Shell [Duke Ellington ephemera, 1933-1990]
Eugene D. Smallwood [gospel music collection]
Ernie Smith [jazz film collection 1910s-1970s]
Virgil Whyte [all-girl band collection, 1942-1948, 1991-1993]
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Date founded: 1981
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1250 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
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Telephone: +1 (202) 783 5000
Telefax: +1 (202) 393 3235
National Portrait Gallery
Catalog of American Portraits
Date founded: 1968
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F Street at Eighth, NW
Washington, DC 20560
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 2578
Telefax: +1 (202) 786 2565
E-mail: capnpg@sivm.si.edu
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Monday:
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10:00-17:00
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Tuesday:
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10:00-17:00
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Wednesday:
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10:00-17:00
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Thursday:
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10:00-17:00
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Friday:
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10:00-17:00
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Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Variety/music hall. Circus. Cinema. Radio/TV. Music/Music performance.
- Media:
- Photos. Paintings. Graphics. Statuary. Objects d'art.
National Theatre and National Theatre Archive
Date founded: 1976
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1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Telephone: +1 (202) 783 6854
Telefax: +1 (202) 628 3209
Written application required. Holdings added.
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. In house.
- Subjects:
- Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Children's theatre. Puppet theatre. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture.
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Photos. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Videos/films/DVDs. Memorabilia.
- Special Collections:
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Programmes, theatre (Washington)
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National Theatre Corporation
Shubert Organization at the National Theatre (Washington Division)
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James Been
Richard Kidwell
Scott Kirkpatrick
Edmund Platt
Richard Schneider
Helen Teske
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Lilian and Albert Small Jewish Museum
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701 Third Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Telephone: +1 (202) 789 0900
Telefax: +1 (202) 789 0485
Smithsonian Institution
Archives (SIA)
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900 Jefferson Drive, SW, Room 2135, MRC 414
Washington, D.C. 20560-0414
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 1420
Telefax: +1 (202) 357 2395
Homepage: http://www.si.edu/organiza/offices/archive/
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archive
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
- Special Collections:
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Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum
Film Archives
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Washington, D.C. 20560-0322
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 4721
Homepage: http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/arch/info/filmarchives.ht
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archive
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art
Date founded: 1964
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950 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20560
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 4600
Telefax: +1 (202) 357 4879
- Media:
- Books.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History
Date founded: 1846
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12th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 2414
Telefax: +1 (202) 357 4256
- Media:
- Books.
- Special Collections:
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Costumes
Music instruments
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History
Archives Center
Date founded: 1846
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12th Street & Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20560-0601
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 3270
Telefax: +1 (202) 786 2453
Homepage: http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/home.htm
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archive
- Subjects:
- Music/Music performance.
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
- Special Collections:
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Jazz
Music, popular
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
Human Studies Film Archives
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Washington, D.C. 20560-0123
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Telephone: +1 (202) 357 3349
Telefax: +1 (202) 357 2208
Homepage: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archive
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
Textile Museum
Arthur D. Jenkins Library
Date founded: 1926
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2320 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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Telephone: +1 (202) 667 0441
Telefax: +1 (202) 483 0994
E-mail: mmallia@textilemuseum.org
Homepage: http://www.textilemuseum.org/
- Media:
- Books. Periodicals. Costumes.
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Tudor Place Archives
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1644 31st Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
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Telephone: +1 (202) 965 0400
Telefax: +1 (202) 960 164
Homepage: http://www.tudorplace.org/
- Databases with information on collections:
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Community of Film Archive
- Media:
- Videos/films/DVDs.
Washington Project for the Arts
Date founded: 1975
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400 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
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Telephone: +1 (202) 347 4813
Telefax: +1 (202) 347 8393
Index:
Institution names followed by are members of SIBMAS
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- SIBMAS Home Page
- Directory Home Page (entry point)
- Institutions
- Alphabetical access by name of institution (both original and English versions of the name when available)
- Collections
- Alphabetical access by name of special collections within the institutions
- Location:
- Geographical access (country and then city)
Please send information regarding corrections, additions and omissions to
idpac@sibmas.org
Editor: Paul S. Ulrich
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