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Inscribed photograph of Josephine Baker. Full-length portrait, inscribed by Baker to "Frank." Photograph taken in 1951 and inscribed in 1964.

Content Description Les Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE "du Classique au Jazz." Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red/white/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111...

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Program for a Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra concert in London, February 1964. Bears the signatures of Ellington and approximately 16 members of his orchestra, inscribed to Walter Heugham, president of the Duke Ellington Jazz Society in England.

Scope and Contents Comprising seven boxes, eleven linear feet of material, the Lawrence Gilman Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed matter relating to the life and career of Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939). The grandnephew of Johns Hopkins' University's first president Daniel Coit Gilman, Lawrence Gilman was a noted music critic for the "New York Herald-Tribune," annotator of orchestral programs for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and radio...

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Beginning no later than his tertianship, Fr. Richard C. Law regularly performed in barbershop quartets and choirs at various campus and Jesuit community events, including minstrel shows, golden jubilees, and final vow celebrations. This collection contains sheet music and lyrics used for such performances, many of which were personalized for individual Jesuits.