Mickel

COLLECTION: Jere C. Mickel collection of theater programs, recordings, and other music materials

LOCATION AS OF 2001: Theater programs and 78-rpm records incorporated into holdings stored on the lover level of the University Press Building; individual LP records and piano music may have been incorporated into the Music Library's cataloged holdings. Framed photograph of singers hangs in Music Library seminar room.

PROVENANCE: Private collection of donor.

WHEN ACQUIRED: 1983 and 1985.

DESCRIPTION: Including both donations, the Music Library received over 1,350 78-rpm records, 82 LP discs, 38 libretti, 5 items of piano music, 2 Victor catalogs, about 500 playbills and concert programs, and a large composite photograph of Victor Records artists (ca. 1908), "The Great Singers of the World. "

ARRANGEMENT: Incorporated into existing holdings or awaiting processing. Programs are arranged by city/name of theater; 78-rpm records are arranged by accession number (if indexed) or by manufacturer/serial number.

ACCESS/ FINDING AIDS/ BIBLIOGRAPHY: No list exists of individual items. Correspondence relating to donation is filed in Collections File folder ("Mickel, Jere C."). Victor catalogs (possibly including items received from Mickel) have been cataloged as individual items for the Music Library's Special Collections area.

INDEX TERMS: Mickel, Jere C.
Recordings: 78 rpm
Theater programs

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