Elizabeth Swenson scrapbook (MSS 37)
Scope and Contents
(1) personal scrapbook compiled by E. Swenson containing letters, clippings, obituaries, holiday cards, programs, and photographs. Notable individuals include: Select names found in the scrapbook include: Briselli, Iso De Gorgoza, Emilio De Machula, Tibor Putlitz, Lois Sokoloff, Eleanor Spofford, Grace Van Emden, Harriet Zimbalist, Mary Louise Curtis Bok
Dates
- Creation: 1924-1942
Creator
- Swenson, Elizabeth Zandt (Person)
Condition
The original scrapbook is very fragile and should not be handled; digital copy available for research purposes.
Biographical / Historical
Swenson served as assistant to the dean of Curtis from 1924-1942.
Extent
1 Linear feet ((1) flat box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Materials primarily related to Curtis and Curtis affiliated musicians; collected by Swenson while serving as assistant to the dean, 1924-1942
Subject
- Aronoff, Max, 1906-1981 (Person)
- Auer, Leopold, 1845-1930 (Person)
- Bachmann, Edwin, 1890-1986 (Person)
- Bailly, Louis, 1882-1974 (Person)
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981 (Person)
- Behrend, Jeanne, 1911-1988 (Person)
- Bolet, Jorge, 1914-1990 (Person)
- Burrell, Mary, Mrs., 1850-1898 (Person)
- Chasins, Abram, 1903-1987 (Person)
- Cherkassky, Shura, 1909-1995 (Person)
- Connell, Horatio, 1876-1936 (Person)
- Farnam, Lynnwood, 1885-1930 (Person)
- Frank, Philip, 1910-2000 (Person)
- Hilsberg, Alexander, 1897-1961 (Person)
- Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962 (Person)
- Landowska, Wanda, 1879-1959 (Person)
- Luboshutz, Lea, 1885-1965 (Person)
- McCurdy, Alexander, 1905-1983 (Person)
- Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007 (Person)
- Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 (Person)
- Salmond, Felix, 1888-1952 (Person)
- Salzedo, Carlos, 1885-1961 (Person)
- Scalero, Rosario, 1870-1954 (Person)
- Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935 (Person)
- Shumsky, Oscar, 1917-2000 (Person)
- Sokoloff, Eleanor, 1914-2020 (Person)
- Sokoloff, Vladimir, 1913-1997 (Person)
- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977 (Person)
- Tabuteau, Marcel, 1887-1966 (Person)
- Temianka, Henri, 1906-1992 (Person)
- Vengerova, Isabelle (Person)
- Zimbalist, Efrem, Sr., 1889-1985 (Person)
- Zimbalist, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 1876-1970 (Person)
- Title
- Elizabeth Swenson scrapbook (MSS 37)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kristina Wilson
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Curtis Institute of Music Archives Repository