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    Lisa C. Arkin collection on Bronislava Nijinska's Polish Ballet Catalog Record Only The collection contains research by Lisa C. Arkin, investigating the inaugural year of the Polish Ballet when dancer, choreographer, and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) served as the company's artistic director. Material types include articles, clippings, correspondence, drafts, notes, photographs, prints, programs, slides, and writings. The Research Files series contains articles, clippings, notes, photographs, programs, prints, and slides. Among Arkin's notes are interviews she conducted...
    • Contributor: Nijinska, Irina - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Arkin, Lisa C. - Davis, Janet Rowson - Dokoudovsky, Vladimir
    • Date: 1932
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    Adolph Bolm collection, Catalog Record Only The collection documents Bolm's career both in Russia and the United States with various companies, including Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, Ballet Intime, Adolph Bolm Ballet, Chicago Civic Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Ballet Theatre. It contains photographs, including many of Bolm in costume for various dance roles and with Tamara Karsavina, his frequent partner from the Ballets Russes. There is a large amount...
    • Contributor: Bolm, Adolph
    • Date: 1895
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    Alice Eversman and Elena de Sayn papers,
    Alice Eversman and Elena De Sayn collection Catalog Record Only
    The collection includes personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks about Eversman, de Sayn, and others, writings, printed music, photographs, programs, subject files, and biographical information. The Correspondence series holds letters to and from Eversman and de Sayn and their personal and professional contacts, including performers, composers, critics, and government officials. The Scrapbooks series contains several volumes on various topics, including musicians Amy Beach and Andrés...
    • Contributor: Cui, César - De Sayn, Elena - Eversman, Alice
    • Date: 1862
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    Serge Koussevitzky archive,
    Koussevitzky archive Catalog Record Only
    The archive includes correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, and other materials which serve as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, and document some of the most significant aspects of twentieth-century music. Through Koussevitzky's work as a conductor and publisher, and his efforts to commission new musical works, he maintained deep ties with many of the finest composers and...
    • Contributor: Koussevitzky, Olga - Koussevitzky, Serge - Naumov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich - Serge Koussevitzky Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1880
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    Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, Catalog Record Only The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. Of particular importance are Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscript scores and sketches, representing his compositional process and creative thought during the last half of his life. These scores include not only manuscript and published scores of Rachmaninoff's...
    • Contributor: Satina, Sophia - Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Rachmaninoff, Natalie - Bertensson, Sergei
    • Date: 1872
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    Seeger family collection, Catalog Record Only The Seeger Family Collection documents the lives and careers of pioneering musicologist Charles Louis Seeger (CLS); his second wife, modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger; their eldest daughter, folksinger and songwriter Peggy Seeger; and her husband, playwright, singer, and songwriter Ewan MacColl through their music manuscripts, personal and professional papers, and correspondence. The collection also includes papers relating to the Crawford family and materials associated...
    • Contributor: Seeger, Charles - Seeger, Peggy - Seeger, Ruth Crawford - Crawford, Clark - Maccoll, Ewan
    • Date: 1846
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    Papers of Victor Babin,
    Victor Babin papers Catalog Record Only
    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, but also contains programs, photographs, clippings and other material relating to various aspects of Babin's life and career. A large portion of material relates to Babin's concerts for the U. S. Army during World War II. Letters from Babin during World War II are chiefly V-mail. Correspondents include his wife and musical partner Vitya (Vronsky) Babin, Leonard Bernstein,...
    • Contributor: Babin, Victor
    • Date: 1933
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    Correspondence from Vernon Duke to Boris Kochno Catalog Record Only Includes 19 autograph letters, 4 postcards, 5 typescript letters, one telegram, and two carbon copies of B. Kochno's letter to C. Fischer LLC concerning the publishing of "Le bal des blanchisseuses" ballet; one letter written ca. 1924 is addressed to "Pavlusha" [Pavel Tchelitchew?]. Current and future prospects of collaboration with Kochno and Ballets russes are discussed; creative projects, such as Piano concerto, Dedicaces, Zéphyr...
    • Contributor: Duke, Vernon - Kochno, Boris - Tchelitchew, Pavel
    • Date: 1924
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    Rouben Mamoulian papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, scripts, production material, family papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia and other papers relating to Mamoulian's career as a theatrical and film director and to his personal life. Includes files for film and theater productions spanning Mamoulian's entire career. Documents his Armenian heritage and contacts with other Armenians; interactions with individuals involved in the arts and entertainment of the twentieth century;...
    • Contributor: Mamoulian, Rouben
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    Zbigniew Brzezinski papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, journal extracts, interviews, congressional testimony, briefing materials, speeches, lectures, writings, reports, notes, travel files, telephone logs and notes, calendars, press clippings, family papers, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Brzezinski's professional life including his tenure as President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor. Part I relates primarily to Brzezinski's service as foreign policy advisor to Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign,...
    • Contributor: Brzezinski, Zbigniew
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    Alan H. Shapley papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, scientific data, subject files, organizational and government records, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Shapley's career as a geophysicist specializing in the study of the ionosphere and to his participation in the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957-1958, a venture of scientists to coordinate the monitoring of geophysical and solar-terrestrial phenomenon. Also includes material relating to Shapley's years at...
    • Contributor: Shapley, Alan H.
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    Russell E. Train papers, Catalog Record Only Diaries, correspondence, speeches, writings, field notes, governmental and organizational records, topical files, family papers, genealogical materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Train's work as a conservationist and environmentalist in public and private sectors on national and international environmental issues and policies. Documents his service with the Council on Environmental Quality, North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society,...
    • Contributor: Train, Charles Russell - Train, Russell E. - Train, Charles Jackson
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    Ronald L. Ziegler papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, political files, subject files, legal material, notes, briefing material, transcripts of press briefings and press conferences, press releases, calendars and schedules, telephone logs, biographical material, family papers, printed matter, clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Ziegler's activities as White House press secretary, assistant to President Richard M. Nixon, and assistant to Nixon after his resignation from the presidency....
    • Contributor: Ziegler, Ronald L. (Ronald Louis)
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    Alexander Vassiliev papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Notebooks compiled by Vassiliev from Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti (KGB) files relating to KGB espionage activity in the United States during the early Cold War era, 1930s-early 1950s. Includes typewritten transcriptions and English translations of the notebooks, summary narratives, a file guide, and a concordance. Also includes scans of VENONA cables and other material relating to VENONA, the code name for the U.S. Army's Signal...
    • Contributor: Vassiliev, Alexander
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    Isabella Karle and Jerome Karle papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, laboratory notebooks, memoranda, interviews, writings, speeches, lectures, reports, crystallographic data, research and subject files, travel files, publications, clippings, awards, photographs, slides, digital files, and other papers primarily relating to the Karles' pioneering work in the field of crystallography as physical chemists at the Naval Research Laboratory, U.S. (NRL), Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, Washington, D.C. Features Isabella Karle's research and writings in...
    • Contributor: Karle, Jerome - Karle, Isabella
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    Walter Sullivan papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, lecture files, writings, reviews, wire service reports, notes, book files, alphabetical files, research files, maps, prints, photographs, digital files, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Sullivan's career as a journalist for the New York Times. Documents his years as a correspondent in China and Antarctica as well as his work as a science writer and editor. Subjects include Alaska, expeditions to Antarctica,...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Walter
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    Joseph Kingsbury-Smith papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, writings, wire-service reports, transcribed interviews and phone calls, notes on conversations, background files, biographical material, family papers, financial records, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Kingsbury-Smith's career with Hearst Corporation and to his personal relationship with the Hearst family, in particular William Randolph Hearst, Jr. Other family members represented include Austine McDonnell Hearst, Millicent Willson Hearst, Patricia (Patty) Hearst, and...
    • Contributor: Kingsbury-Smith, Joseph
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    The Seth MacFarlane collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive,
    Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan archive | Ann Druyan papers | Carl Sagan papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Correspondence, memoranda, scripts, book drafts and resource material, articles, reports, notes, subject files, course files, organization files, biographical material, clippings, printed matter, slides and transparencies, photographs and negatives, digital files, and other papers documenting Sagan's career as an astronomer, astrobiologist, science educator, television personality, and author. Chronicles his work as a professor at Harvard University; professor of astronomy and space sciences at Cornell University;...
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
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    Lee Strasberg papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, lectures, writings, scripts, production files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Strasberg's theatrical and film career; Method acting, his system of acting techniques; the Actors Studio, Group Theatre, and Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, N.Y.; and theater history. Includes files pertaining to Strasberg's work as a stage actor between 1925 and 1931, as a film actor in the...
    • Contributor: Strasberg, Lee - Group Theatre (U.S.)
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    Robert G. Kaiser papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, writings, notes, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Kaiser's career with the Washington Post as a foreign correspondent in Russia and Vietnam, local and national news reporter based in Washington, D.C., and editor. Includes drafts, interview transcripts, notes, and research material for books authored or coauthored by Kaiser documenting his work as a reporter and reflecting his work processes....
    • Contributor: Kaiser, Robert G.
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    European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series, Library of Congress archives,
    Library of Congress archives, European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project series | Library of Congress. European Mission records | Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project records Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, memoranda, lists of publications, index cards, printed matter, and other records documenting the efforts of the Library of Congress European Mission (Mission to Germany) and the Cooperative Acquisitions Project to collect, review, and acquire publications in Europe during and immediately following World War II as well as to organize the distribution and shipment of these materials to participating libraries in the United States....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress Mission to Germany - Library of Congress. Cooperative Acquisitions Project
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    Smith/Skolnik Literary Management records, Catalog Record Only Records of the literary agency regarding its representation of the literary estate of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov on behalf of his two heirs: his widow, Vera Nabokova, and his son, Dmitri Nabokov. Reflects the agency's management of the worldwide distribution of Nabokov publications, publication of previously unpublished or uncollected works, and adaptation of select Nabokov titles for film and other performances. Consists of publishing contracts,...
    • Contributor: Smith/Skolnik Literary Management
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    Louis M. Goren papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly poetry and other writings by Goren. Also includes correspondence, notes and notebooks, scrapbooks, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Goren's career as a poet and author. Goren provides insights into his adopted country as a Russian-Jewish immigrant who came to the United States in 1911 and documents his surroundings in the Southwest, Chicago, Illinois, and New...
    • Contributor: Goren, Louis M.
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    Order Division series, Library of Congress archives,
    Library of Congress archives, Order Division series Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, memoranda, acquisition records, collection catalogs, lists, reports, photographs, and printed matter, in both microfilm and physical formats, documenting the Library of Congress acquisition and accessioning operations. Correspondence files constitute the bulk of the collection and include correspondence with vendors relating to materials acquired for the Library's collections as well as memoranda, invoices, orders, and subject files.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Division of Accessions - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Order Division - Library of Congress. Acquisitions Department
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    James A. Bayard and Richard H. Bayard papers,
    James A. Bayard papers | Richard H. Bayard papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, financial material, diplomatic documents, congressional material, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers concerning the careers of James A. Bayard and his son, Richard H. Bayard. Subjects include Federalist politics, repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1800, Bank of the United States, War of 1812, Delaware politics, Delaware militia, and foreign affairs, especially the Treaty of Ghent (1814) and diplomatic...
    • Contributor: Bayard, James A. (James Asheton) - Bayard, Richard H. (Richard Henry)