Programs (documents)

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The collection consists of programs, scrapbooks, clippings, cast lists, photographs, illustrations, correspondence, personal items, invitations, a manuscript score of Aida, playbills, and reviews pertaining to New Orleans musical and theatrical performances between 1843 and 1990. There are also music programs from places outside of New Orleans.

Scope and Contents The collection includes poems by the poet laureate of New Orleans as well as published volumes, Christ Church Cathedral bulletins, brochures, and programs (1956-1977), the Veterans Administration Hospital programs (Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1935-1960), Le Petit Theatre programs (1961-1975), and the Roosevelt Hotel's Roosevelt Review issues (1952-1967), in which many of the poet's works appear. There are also newspaper clippings, records and recordings of music, correspondence (1953-1978),...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of Arthur William Hyland's papers accumulated while working for the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. Included in the collection are certificates, newspaper clippings, photographs, professional correspondence (1930-1964), programs, annual reports, publications on the cotton industry, a handbook on the charter and by-laws of the Cotton Exchange, a book on the history of the Cotton Exchange, membership lists, as well as speeches. Hyland served on numerous committees at the...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the correspondence, writings, diplomas, certificates, programs, sympathy notes, clippings, and photographs of Dr. Charles Cassedy Bass (1875-1975). Bass was a professor at Tulane Medical School and later dean (1922-1940). He did research on and promoted the "Bass technique" of preventative dental health care, and there are writings on this topic in the collection. In addition, there are biographies on Bass, as well as writings about him by others. There are also...

Scope and Contents The Congregation Gates of Prayer was organized in the "Old Lafayette" area of New Orleans in 1849 and incorporated in 1850. The Congregation later moved to Jefferson Parish and established a new synagogue in Metairie. It followed the Orthodox tradition and services were conducted by a cantor for many years. At the turn of the century, the influence of the Reform movement was felt, and in 1906 the first rabbi was engaged. The collection consists of the Congregation Gates of Prayer's by-laws,...

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The collection consists of costume designs and descriptions of four Carnival krewe balls: Maids of Troy; Andalusia, New Iberia; Faed Setum, Lafayette; and The Ancient Scribes. There are also color slides of costume designs from Ancient Scribes and Maids of Troy from 1963-1964. In addition, there are newsclippings and ball programs.

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Clippings, programs and photographs relating to the Federal Theatre, a Works Progress Administration Project in New Orleans. Also clippings relating to various theatre productions.

Scope and Contents The materials in this collection date from 1833 to 2011. The bulk of the collection records the period from 1950 to 1990. The subjects documented in this collection are the history of the church, its activities and events, as well as its involvement with social justice and civil rights efforts. The records also document the church’s relations with the national and regional Unitarian Universalist organizations and with other religious and charitable groups based in New Orleans. The documents...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, articles, photographs, invitations, speeches, and die-cast stamps. Frank Leo Loria (b. 1898-) was a surgeon at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He was very interested in Italian-American affairs, writing articles for La Voce Coloniale, many of which can be found in the collection. Loria also founded the Virgilian Society in 1921 to create better relations between Italians and New Orleanians. Information about the Society, as well...

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This collection consists of minutes, treasurers' reports, membership lists, hostesses' notebooks, program announcement post cards, and other records of the Friday Afternoon Club in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The collection consists of four scrapbooks of material about the French Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1856 to 1919. Items include cast lists from opera programs, subscription lists, and newspaper clippings.

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This collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, biographical information, scores, music manuscripts, concert programs, handwritten and typed notes, printed material, and clippings regarding the life and career of music professor and composer, Giuseppe Ferrata. Ferrata founded the Newcomb College Piano Department in 1909 and taught there until his death in 1928.

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This collection consists of handwritten and typed documents, certificates, correspondence, photographs, literary manuscripts, reports, speeches, club records, journals, clippings, and other papers pertaining to the life and work of Ida Weis Friend, a New Orleans native active in civic and social affairs.

Scope and Contents The Isaac N. Marks papers consist of a variety of business and personal letters. Among these are a letter to the City Council on behalf of the Fireman's Charitable Association, letters asking for assistance, and letters suggesting Marks for positions such as governor, mayor, appointment as alderman (1848), board member of the State Board of Health (1879), and School Director of New Orleans (1875). This collection also contains one bound volume, newspaper clippings relevant to Marks'...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the photographs collected by Jane Walsh, a high school physical education teacher at Esplanade Girls' High School and John McDonogh High School in New Orleans. Included are family photographs, black and white photographs of large groups of uniformed high school girls doing synchronized exercise routines in class, a 1959 commencement program from John McDonogh Senior High School in New Orleans, postcards with correspondence, photographs of houses, farm animals, and...

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The collection consists of research notes Louis Panzeri (1902-1983) used for his book, Louisiana Composers; programs and brochures; music associations material; and early letters on musical subjects. Panzeri, a music teacher and voice coach in New Orleans, collected Louis Moreau Gottschalk correspondence, mementoes, and newspaper clippings, which are also included. There are obituaries of other musicians as well as a photograph of the choir at St. Patrick's Church, New Orleans.

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This collection consists of a biography, correspondence (1942-1979), photographs, invitations, newspaper clippings (1935-1970s), programs, and movie star memorabilia. There are biographies in addition to photographs of movie stars. Maud O'Bryan Ronstrom was a columnist for the Times-Picayune and the States-Item who wrote a daily advertising column. The clippings are of Ronstrom's own column and writings.

Scope and Contents The collection is made up of correspondence, photographs, genealogies, newspaper clippings, postcards, programs, pamphlets, autographs, scrapbooks, other documents, and bible of the Bloom/Marx and Metz/Kahn families. There are documents of the Marx family in Mainz, Germany before their emigration to the United States as well as poetry and writings by Salomon Marx. Also included are stock certificates, military records, marriage certificates, awards and certificates, real estate papers, and...

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This collection includes programs, newsletters, concert schedules, broadsides, advertisements, correspondence, sheet music, performance descriptions, and other records of the New Orleans early-music ensemble that specializes in performing music of the Medieval and Early Baroque periods. The collection document's the group's founding in 1966, when it was originally called The Woodvine Recorder Consort.

Scope and Contents The New Orleans Friends of Music is a volunteer music organization, established in 1956, that is enthusiastic about chamber music and brings visiting artists to play at Dixon Hall at the Tulane University campus. The collection is made up of the organization's articles of incorporation, by-laws, and amendments, membership lists, officer lists, minutes, correspondence, subscriptions, calling lists, financial records, artists' contracts, publicity, programs, promotional records, grant...

Scope and Contents The collection includes the papers of New Orleans commodity broker James Mitchell Rogers, as well as his family of four sisters, including Myra Clare Rogers, a Newcomb College professor of Latin. There is business correspondence, invoices, cash books, journals, letter books, ledgers, shipment records, grain and hay delivery records, receipt books, account books (chiefly 1908-1911 relating to the running of the commodities office). The collection also include later business records...

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The collection consists of the Ruth McEnery Stuart Clan's historical and biographical information, constitution, and bylaws. It also contains clippings, lists of officers, correspondence, minutes from meetings, treasurer's reports, bank statements, yearbooks, as well as scrapbooks. The literary society was founded in 1915 by Judith Hyams Douglas, who named the society after her friend, author Ruth McEnery Stuart.

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Copies of documents and translations of material in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Archivo General de Indias relating to the Spanish Colony of Louisiana. The documents were photographed in the Archivo for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The translations were made by the W.P.A. from photostats loaned to the Howard Memorial Library.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of letters written by John Howard Stibbs to his family during the Civil War as well as correspondendence by John Henry Stibbs, Dean of Students at Tulane University. There are also invoices and receipts for stores for the 12th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, manuscript notes, genealogical materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, reunion programs, military commissions of John Howard Stibbs, scrapbooks, as well as correspondence by Virginia Stibbs Anami. The letters and...