Maslen

COLLECTION: Edwin R. Maslen Memorial Collection of 78 rpm and LP recordings

LOCATION AS OF 2001: University Press Building Library storage area

PROVENANCE: Donated to University of Illinois by Mary Maslen, widow of Edwin Maslen, at the suggestion of Robert Bays, director of the School of Music.

WHEN ACQUIRED: September 1979

DESCRIPTION: Total of 2,586 78-rpm discs and approximately 1,800 long-playing records, almost exclusively of classical repertory, including "many difficult to find and valuable recordings" (Robert Bays, letter of 11 Sep 79, Collections File)

ARRANGEMENT: LP recordings interfiled by record company/serial number within holdings of uncataloged recordings in storage. Presumably 78-rpm records have also been interfiled among 78-rpm holdings in the University Press Building storage area.

ACCESS/ FINDING AIDS/ BIBLIOGRAPHY; Collections File folder ("Maslen, Mary") includes 60-page list of LP discs arranged under company/serial number, "Long-playing Recordings from the Edwin R. Maslen Memorial Collection." Maslen collection bookplates have been affixed to some (if not all) individual albums. No list exists of individual 78-rpm albums.

INDEX TERMS: Maslen, Edwin R.; Recordings, 33 1/3 rpm; Recordings, 78-rpm
 

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