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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
circa 1815-1931
Creator:
Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872
Extent: 76 boxes
The Edwin Forrest Collection provides some documentation of the business career of Edwin Forrest (nineteenth-century American
actor, noted for his Shakespearean roles), focusing in the main on the latter part of his career (the 1860s and 1870s). Though
some private personal correspondence is housed in the collection, predominant is correspondence concerning various aspects
of Forrest's finances; these are arranged by major investments or interests.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1904-1990
Creator:
Northrup, Herbert Roof, 1918-2007
Extent: 22 boxes
This collection primarily contains material relating to contract negotiations between General Electric (GE) and the International
Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), and the resulting case
before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Northrup used this material to examine GE's employee relations policies
and the implications of Boulwarism for two articles and a subsequent book. Also included in the collection is a box of personal
and financial correspondence belonging to Lemuel R. Boulware and Northrup's business correspondence when he worked in the
private sector as a consultant, as well as his time at GE.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1916-1994
Creator:
Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977
Extent: 47 boxes (+ 1 map drawer)
Some personal papers of Leopold Stokowski, including correspondence to and from Stokowski, notebooks, calendars, bank statements,
royalty statements, insturance records, and contracts; this includes some correspondence and contracts related to Stokowski’s
tenure as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra (bulk 1937-1946). Also includes writings by and about Stokowski, obituaries,
programs, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, awards, memorabilia, and issues of three newsletters devoted to Stokowski. Also
includes administrative correspondence of the former curator of the Leopold Stokowski Collection at the Curtis Institute of
Music, Dr. Edwin E. Heilakka, 1980-1994.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
circa 1900-1993
Creator:
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
Extent: 450 boxes
The Marian Anderson Papers are comprised of correspondence; business records and contracts; manuscript and typescript biographical
materials; notes, journals, calendars, and financial documents; programs and publicity materials; awards and honorary degrees;
clippings; scrapbooks; memorabilia; and some materials belonging to her sisters Alyse Anderson and Ethel De Preist, her mother
Anna D. Anderson, and her husband, Orpheus H. Fisher.
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]
1856-2008
Extent: 1.87 linear feet
The Bates Center's Small Collections are various, unrelated accessions that have been individually assigned collection numbers.
Many of the Small Collections consist of a single folder.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1961-1966
Creator:
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Extent: 0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
In the 1960s, the Philadelphia Orchestra was led by music director Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985), who, with his predecessor,
Leopold Stokowski, brought the Philadelphia Orchestra to international attention. The concert promoter, Oscar Humberto Alcazar
Vega, determinedly spent five years planning for the Philadelphia Orchestra to tour Central and South America. This collection
documents the Philadelphia Orchestra's 1966 Latin American Tour and includes material created and collected during the planning,
from 1961 to 1966, as well as the tour which took place from May to June 1966.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1822-1873
Creator:
S. Day Pastrycook and Confectioner, Fancy Bread & Buscuitmaker.
Extent: 0.33 linear feet (1 box)
Samuel Day (born 1806 or 1807 in Middlesex, England) owned and operated his own business, S. Day Pastrycook and Confectioner,
Fancy Bread & Biscuit Maker, located in Strood and Rochester, Kent County, England. This collection includes Day’s contract
of indenture, apprenticeship rules, recipes, and detailed records of clients' orders dating from 1850 to 1873.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
circa 1890-1965 (bulk dates 1897-1955)
Creator:
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Extent: 244 linear feet (503 boxes)
Contains 22 series, including correspondence (118 boxes); legal matters (7 boxes); writings (260 boxes), comprising books,
essays, short stories, poems, plays, screenplays, radio scripts, addresses, lectures, interviews, introductions, and prefaces;
journals edited by Dreiser (6 boxes); notes (9 boxes); diaries (5 boxes); biographical material (1 box); memorabilia (41 boxes),
comprising scrapbooks, photographs, art work, promotional material, postcards, and miscellanea; financial records (5 boxes);
clippings (23 boxes); works by others (12 boxes); and oversize materials (2 boxes). Also includes materials regarding various
family members: brother Paul Dresser (8 boxes of correspondence, sheet music and lyric sheets, clippings and memorabilia,
and two plays written by Dresser); second wife Helen Dreiser (4 boxes of diaries and other writings); and niece Vera Dreiser
(2 boxes of correspondence).
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1899-1961
(Bulk: 1928-1952)
Creator:
Dreiser, Vera
Extent: 13 linear feet (31 boxes)
Vera Dreiser (circa 1908-1998) was a psychologist who practiced first in New York from 1947 to 1961, and later in California
until her retirement in 1972. She is the niece of novelist Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) and of composer Paul Dresser (1858-1906).
This collection is comprised of materials from Vera Dreiser’s personal and professional life as well as materials related
to the musical and literary estates of Paul Dresser and Theodore Dreiser.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1879-1977
Creator:
Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967
Extent: 63 linear feet (132 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
The papers document the literary career and the personal and professional life of twentieth-century American novelist and
writer Waldo David Frank. Comprising correspondence, writings, publicity, writings by others, memorabilia, photographs, scrapbooks,
and clippings spanning from 1879 to 1977, the collection contains 132 boxes and 3565 folders. The correspondence documents
Frank's personal and professional relationships with writers, editors, artists, friends, and family. Letters from friendships
with other writers and artists such as Jean Toomer, Sherwood Anderson, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Mumford, Van Wyck Brooks, and
Hart Crane document congenial collaborations, sharing of ideas, and disagreements. The writings contain his notebooks, major
works, articles, essays, and early writings tracing Frank's works and ideas of society and culture with psychological and
social themes of man and his environment. Frank's passion for the culture and study of Spain, Latin America, and Mexico is
apparent in correspondence and his research, preserved through notes and photographs of South America and Mexico. Letters
and photographs display Frank's relationships with family members, his wives (Margaret Naumburg, Alma Magoon Frank, and Jean
Klempner Frank) and his children. The materials in this collection divulge not only the writings of Waldo Frank, but the struggles
of the writer and his encounters with himself and society as he seeks his vision of truth in the world. He was courageous
in the face of his critics and his political enemies even when experiencing both written and physical attacks. Even though
Frank claimed he was an outsider he was embraced by the people and cultures he championed and studied. Although largely forgotten
by the end of his lifetime, his correspondence, writings, and ideas remain, providing insight into literary circles, political
ideas, and historical events in the United States and Latin America during the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1836-1837
Creator:
Wrightsville and York Railroad Company.
Extent: 1 volume
An oversize volume comprising the contracts and receipts of payment for the construction of the Wrightsville to York Railroad
line spanning one year from 1836 to 1837.
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