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Berklee College of Music
Library
      Date founded: 1964 		 
 
150 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 266 1400
Telefax: +1 (617) 247 6878
E-mail: jvoigt@berklee.edu

Subjects:
Architecture. Architecture.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Jazz
Rock music

Boston Conservatory of Music
Albert Alphin Music Library
      Date founded: 1867 		 
 
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02215-4099 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 536 6340
Telefax: +1 (617) 536 3176
Sunday: 12:00-17:30
Monday: 7:45-23:00
Tuesday: 7:45-23:00
Wednesday: 7:45-23:00
Thursday: 7:45-23:00
Friday: 7:45-23:00
Saturday: 9:00-17:00

Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Card
On-site use only. Interlibrary loan.
Reproductions: By user. In house.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Pantomime/mime. Children's theatre. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Cinema. Radio/TV. Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Katrine Amory Hooper [dance and art collection]
James Pappoutsakis [collection]
Katherine Rossi [collection]
Jan Veen [dance and art collection]

Boston Public Library
Research Library
      Date founded: 1852 		 
 
666 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02117 		Mail:
      666 Boylston Street
     Box 286
      Boston, MA 02117-0286

Telephone: +1 (617) 536 5400
Telefax: +1 (617) 536 4306
Homepage: http://www.bpl.org/
Monday: 9:00-21:00
Tuesday: 9:00-21:00
Wednesday: 9:00-21:00
Thursday: 9:00-21:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00
Saturday: 9:00-17:00

Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card. Other
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By company.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Variety/music hall. Theatre architecture. Circus. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance. Public celebrations.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans. Scores/libretti/music. Paintings. Graphics. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs. Production material.
Special Collections:
Actors (American) (1860-1910)
Actresses (American) (1860-1910)
Ballet
Broadsides
Libretti
Literary Dublin (1950s)
Opera
Pictures (Boston)
Plays (American) (1500-1800)
Plays (American) (19th century)
Plays (English) (1500-1800)
Plays (English) (19th century)
Portraits, actors, actresses and royalty
Programmes
Programmes, music
Sound Archive
Theatre (Boston) (1850s-20th century) [archives]
Theatre (Russian)

Abbey Theatre (Dublin) (1905-1976)
Boston Garden Collection [photographs, programs for rodeos, ice shows]
Boston Herald Traveler [photo morgue]
Boston Symphony Orchestra [programmes, scrapbooks]
Federal Street Theatre (Boston) (1776-1852)
Handel Society (Boston)
Haydn Society (Boston)
Hollywood in Pictures (1930s-1940s)
Jackson Theatre (Boston)
Marchard Orchestra (Boston)
Metropolitan Theatre Orchestra (Boston)
Pro Arte Chamber Ochestra (Boston) [Boston archive]
Tremont Theatre (Boston) (1838-1843)
Triangle Theatre (Boston) (1980-)

Bertram E. Adams, magician [collection, in particular Harry Houdini]
Fred Allen (1894-1956), actor
Andrus Collection
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), theatre director, actor [theatre music collection]
David Belasco (1859-1931), impresario
Jack Benny (1894-1974), actor [letters to Frank Remley]
Alexandre Benois (1870-1960), painter, scenographer
Bliss Collection of Henri Fantin-Latour
Domenico Brescia
Allen A. Brown (1835-1916), amateur musician, collector [music Library, theatre collection]
A. Parker Browne
Carroll Collections
Teresa Cerutti-Simmons, dancer
Lotta A. Clark, pageant producer
Crosett Collection [material on Teresa Cerutti-Simmons]
Charlotte Saunders Cushman (1816-1876), actress
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), painter [lithographs]
Clara G. Dennis (1877-1963), teacher, collector [doll Collection]
Mark De Voto [Walter Piston manuscrips]
William Addison Dwiggins (1901-1986), type designer [marionettes]
Richard Ehrlich (1901-1981) [autographs of American and Europeans, 18th-20th century]
Virginia Ehrlich [autographs of American and Europeans, 18th-20th century]
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) [painter, lithographer]
Eugene Feole
Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979), conductor [papers 1898-1980]
Kate Field (1839-1896), actress, author [papers]
Benedict Fitzgerald [collection]
Ferdinand Freiligrath, poet
Natale Gallini [Italian libretto collection, 17th-20th centuries]
Guillaume Gavarni [i.e. Chevalier Sulpice-Guillaume] (1804-1866), painter, engraver, illustrator [lithographs of performing artists 1839-1866]
Karl Geiringer [glass negatives of European composers, 1830-1910]
Morris Gest (1881-1942), dramatist, actor, manager [manager of David Belasco]
John Gibbs Gilbert (1810-1889), actor, manager [performing arts monographs]
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), painter
Grace Warner Gulesian (1884-1984), composer, pianist, playwright
Philip Hale (1854-1934), music critic
Hanlon family, comedy and acrobatic troup [papers 1870-1930s]
Arnold Hartmann
Rebekah Hobbs (1902-1982), founder of the Theater Guild American Theatre Society
Holt Collection [prints relating to the performing arts]
Harry Houdini, magician
Robert Laning Humphrey (1896-1988), journalist, publicist
William B. Jackson jr. (1894-1977), theater agent [theatre collection, Boston theatre 1920s-1950s]
Joan of Arc
Kavanagh Family [material relating to theatre, 1922-1957]
Minuetta Kessler, pianist, teacher, composer [papers 1919-1989]
James Kotsilibas-Davis, film clipppings and television show scrapbooks, 1907-1970
Joseph Koudelka (1773-1850) [music scores, 15th-18th century]
Serge Koussevitzky (1875-1951), conductor
Benjamin J. Lang (1837-1909), pianist, organist, conductor [scrapbooks]
Frances M. Lang [diaries 1876, 1891-92, 1901-20]
Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972), composer
N.G. Maestro [Italian libretti and ballet collection, 17th-19th centuries]
Harry Marchard, bandleader
Jack Marchard, bandleader
David Blair McClosky (1902-1988), teacher, vocal coach, singer
William Thomas McKinley (1938-), composer, jazz pianist
Ludwig Mestler
Tommaso Nazarro (1895-1977), Italian opera producer
Norton, Eliot (1903-), drama critic
Walter Piston (1894-1976), composer
Frank Remley, guitarist [letters from Jack Benny]
Joseph Rines (1902-1986), composer, arranger
John B. Sanromá (1900-1997), photographer
Napoleon Sarony, photographer [American actors and actresses, 1860-1910]
E.C. Schirmer
Montgomery Sears [Freiligrath collection, German literature]
Mary Shaw (1854-1929), actress, suffragist [papers 1899-1914]
Leo Snyder (1918-1984), music teacher, critic
Otto Straub
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), painter
Harriet S. Whiting [material on 20th century opera]
Lilla Viles Wyman [dance collection]
Victor Young (1900-1956), conductor

Bostonian Society
Library
      Date founded: 1881 		 
 
15 State Streer, 3rd Floor
Boston, MA 02109-1773 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 720 3285
Telefax: +1 (617) 720 3289

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Promptbooks.
Special Collections:
Theatre (Boston)

Boston University
Mugar Memorial Library
Special Collections Department
      Date founded: 1963 		 
 
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 353 3710
Telefax: +1 (617) 353 2084
Homepage: http://web.bu.edu/library/
Monday: 9:00-17:00
Tuesday: 9:00-17:00
Wednesday: 9:00-17:00
Thursday: 9:00-17:00
Friday: 9:00-17:00

Written application required. Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized. Card
On-site use only.
Reproductions: By user. In house. By company.
Exhibitions.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Opera. Operetta/Musical. Ballet/dance. Cabaret/Kabaret. Variety/music hall. Amateur theatre. Cinema. Radio/TV. Festivals. Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Promptbooks. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Programmes. Clippings. Posters. Designs/Plans. Costumes. Properties. Videos/films/DVDs. Official documents. Scores/libretti/music. Paintings. Graphics. Statuary. Objects d'art. Memorabilia. Sound recordings/CDs. Production material. Other.
Special Collections:
Paris Conservatoire de Musique [archive]

Arthur Fiedler, conductor

Boston University
Music Library 		 
 
771 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 353 3705
Telefax: +1 (617) 353 2084
E-mail: mockovak@bu.edu
Homepage: http://www.bn.edu/library/music/home.htm

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.

The Commonwealth Museum
      Date founded: 1986 		 
 
Columbia Point
220 William T. Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 727 9150
Telefax: +1 (617) 727 8730

Emerson College
Library
      Date founded: 1880 		 
 
Walker Building, 120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 824 8668
Telefax: +1 (617) 824 7817
E-mail: mickey_zemon@emerson.edu
Homepage: http://emerson.emerson.edu/library/
Sunday: 12:00-23:00
Monday: 7:45-23:00
Tuesday: 7:45-23:00
Wednesday: 7:45-23:00
Thursday: 7:45-23:00
Friday: 7:45-21:00
Saturday: 10:00-18:00

Written application required. Holdings added. Holdings closed.
Catalogs: Computerized
On-site use only.

Subjects:
Dramatic theatre. Ballet/dance. Children's theatre. Puppet theatre. Amateur theatre. Theatre architecture. Cinema. Radio/TV.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Playtexts. Photos. Programmes. Clippings. Videos/films/DVDs. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Boston Herald [theatre clippings {1870-1970)]
Elinor Hughes Theatre (Boston, MA)
Let's Pretend (1951-1954) [Children's radio]
Prix d'Italia [scripts]

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), librettist
William Jackson [theatre programs (1940-1970)]
Norman Lear (1922-), television producer, comedy writer [theatre clippings (1927-1949)]
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), composer
Henry F. Winkler [papers (1945- )]

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
      Date founded: 1900 		 
 
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115 		Mail:
      2 Palace Road
      Boston, MA 02115

Telephone: +1 (617) 566 1401
Telefax: +1 (617) 232 8039

Special Collections:
Music

Harvard Musical Association
Library
      Date founded: 1837 		 
 
57A Chestnut Street
Boston, MA 02108 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 523- 2897

Subjects:
Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Scores/libretti/music.
Special Collections:
Music, chamber

Massachusetts Historical Society
Library
      Date founded: 1791 		 
 
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215-3695 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 536 1608
Telefax: +1 (617) 859 0074
E-mail: library@masshist.org
Homepage: http://www.masshist.org/

Museum of Fine Arts
      Date founded: 1870 		 
 
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 369 3388
Telefax: +1 (617) 247 9063

Special Collections:
Leslie Lindsey Mason [collection of ancient musical instruments]

New England Conservatory of Music
Harriet M. Spaulding Library
      Date founded: 1867 		 
 
33 Gainsborough Street
Boston, MA 02115 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 585 1250
Telefax: +1 (617) 585 1245
Homepage: http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/
Sunday: 13:00-21:00
Monday: 8:30-22:30
Tuesday: 8:30-22:30
Wednesday: 8:30-22:30
Thursday: 8:30-22:30
Friday: 8:30-21:00
Saturday: 9:00-21:00

Holdings added.
Catalogs: Computerized
Interlibrary loan.

Subjects:
Opera. Operetta/Musical. Music/Music performance.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Manuscripts. Correspondence. Scores/libretti/music. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Composers (New England)
Composers in Boston (American) (end of 19th century-early 20th)

Camel Caravan [scores]
Firestone Hour Collection of Music

Vaughn Monroe [collection of Camel Caravan scores]
Preston Collection of Musicians' Letters

Northeastern University
Snell Library
      Date founded: 1898 		 
 
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 373 2350
Telefax: +1 (617) 373 5409
Homepage: http://www.lib.neu.edu/

Subjects:
Public celebrations.
Media:
Books. Periodicals. Videos/films/DVDs. Sound recordings/CDs.
Special Collections:
Casa Loma Orchestra Swing

Glenn Cray [Casa Loma Orchestra Swing]

USS Constitution Museum  
 
Building 22
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston, MA 02129 		 

Telephone: +1 (617) 426 1812
Telefax: +1 (617) 242 0496
Homepage: http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/

Databases with information on collections:
Community of Film Archive
Media:
Videos/films/DVDs.
Special Collections:
USS Constitution [Old Ironsides]

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