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Musicians -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Karl Schneider music advertisements

 Collection — Folder S2378
Identifier: S2378
Scope and Contents This collection includes two advertisement pamphlets for Karl Schneider circa 1903 to 1910. The first pamphlet promotes Schneider as a "Teacher of the Art of Singing" and contains a summary of his musical training in Europe and tuition prices. In the second pamphlet, he promotes himself as a bass baritone singer available for engagements of oratorio, concerts, and song recitals and lists samples of his recital programs and his repertoire. Both pamphlets contain his photograph.
Dates: circa 1903-1910

Levi L. Levering Civil War diary

 Collection — Folder S3334
Identifier: S3334
Scope and Contents This collection includes a diary from Levi L. Levering ranging from 1865/02/01 to 1865/05/17 regarding his time in the U.S. Civil War as a musician.
Dates: 1865

Lockenour family photographs

 Collection — Folder SP150
Identifier: SP150
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs, including a large tintype, from Georgia Eva Lockenour in Indiana ranging from circa 1860 to 1969, regarding Lockemour, her life, and her family. The family photographs are unidentified. There is also a a name tag with ribbon for Lockenour with her DePauw graduation photograph from the 50 year class of 1919 reunion.
Dates: circa 1860-1969

Musicians research collection

 Collection — Folder S1629
Identifier: S1629
Scope and Contents The letters were written in response to a request for information from Indiana composers. The original request letter is not included, but, based on the answers, must have asked for biographical information, where that person studied music, professional music work, and awards in competitions. Some of the responses include lists of the songs they composed and their publishers. Most of these Hoosier musicians lived in other states. Among the songs listed are cello solos, piano arrangements,...
Dates: 1934-1936

New Albany American Legion band music books

 Collection
Identifier: L331
Scope and Contents This collection contains a series of music books used by the New Albany American Legion marching band. There are two sets and each book is labeled for a different instrument. Song titles in the books include: "March-Blazing the Trail," "On the Picket Line," "Spirit of Peace," "Under the American Flag," "The Hague Conference," and "Florizel Overture." Books in the H-64 set are stamped with the name of the store where they were purchased, "H.H. Dreyer, New Albany, Indiana."
Dates: circa 1920s

Oral history and audio collection

 Collection
Identifier: L640
Scope and Contents This collection comprises the breadth of the oral history collection at the Indiana State Library, ranging from circa 1904 to 2019. The bulk of the collection contains oral histories created during the ISL Oral History Project during the 1960s-1980s and recordings of events, meetings, recitations, and radio interviews created and acquired by library staff during that period. The remainder are oral histories created by various outside institutions and organizations, such as universities, public...
Dates: circa 1904-2019

Pierce-Krull family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L353
Scope and Contents The collection includes family correspondence (1834-1963), writings, financial records, journals, and scrapbooks from the Pierce-Krull family ranging from 1834 to 1963. Family correspondence includes correspondence of the John Moore family of Ellisville, Geneseo, and Rock Island, Illinois (1834-1870), including letters from family members in St. Louis, Missouri., California, and Madison, Jefferson County and Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana. Also included are letters, and transcripts of...
Dates: 1834-1963

Richard Lew Dawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: L043
Scope and Contents This collection contains the papers of Richard Lew Dawson ranging from 1857 to 1921, including: drafts of his larger poetry and essay collections; original handwritten stories, poems and music; editorials and newspaper columns written by Dawson; and advertisements and programs from his speaking engagements. Also included in the collection is a series of newspaper articles regarding the history of the modern calendar, together with Dawson's own homemade perpetual calendar. The correspondence...
Dates: 1857-1921

Schellschmidt family biographies

 Collection — Folder S1911
Identifier: S1911
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three biographies, one of Adolph Schellschmidt, one of Berta Schellschmidt, and one of Emma Schellschmidt. Adolph's biography was cut from an unidentified publication and is dated July 10, 1897; Bertha's and Emma's biographies have both been written in pencil on two pieces of note paper (one sheet to each subject). The two remaining items in the collection are a list of names, places, and amounts, possibly for musical engagements of Adolph Schellschmidt,...
Dates: circa 1897