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Andrews
COLLECTION: James C. Andrews collection of books relating to organ
LOCATION AS OF 2001: Books: Music Library Special Collections (cataloged separately and dispersed); Pamphlets: University Press storage area.
PROVENANCE: Private collection purchased from James C. Andrews, student in University of Illinois Library School (see below).
WHEN ACQUIRED: Academic year 1949/50
DESCRIPTION: 1949/50 Music Library Annual Report (Jay Alien), p.3: "...over 700 volumes of material on the organ, reputed to be the most complete in
the United States, and one of the two most complete in the world. The publication dates go back to the eighteenth century."
J.C. Andrews: "My agreement was to supply everything on pipe organs from my own collection that was not in the Illinois libraries at that time ...I was
not under contract, so to speak, to supply materials on reed organs, although I did turn over a few items that I had in duplicate..." (Letter
to T. McGeary, 3/9/82).
ARRANGEMENT: Books were individually cataloged and dispersed (most, if not all, were transferred to Music Library Special Collections during
the 1990s). One box of pamphlets remains in offsite storage among Music Library materials at the Library's University Press storage area.
ACCESS/FINDING AIDS/BIBLIOGRAPHY: Refer to Andrews' bibliographies:
J.C. Andrews. A bibliography of the organ. (Urbana, 1949; 016.7865 An26bi) [238 leaves]
J.C. Andrews. Basic list of books on organ history and construction. (q016.7865 An26b) [21 leaves, with call number annotations]
Andrews' letter of 3/9/82 to T. McGeary, with details of how collection was formed and subsequently transferred in part to the University of
Illinois, is filed in Collections File ("Andrews")
INDEX TERMS: Andrews, James C.; Organ history/construction
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6. Andrews, James C, collector.
Literature on organ building.
700 volumes.
The Andrews collection included most important publications on organ
building and manufacture which were written in English and European lan-
guages during the period from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth
along with representative works in other languages.
Purchase, 1949/50. (Major, p.2)
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