Cornell University Glee Club records
Scope and content
Collection includes bound managerial papers, correspondence, and financial papers for every year from 1929 to 1976 (excluding war years), scrapbooks, photographs, programs, notebooks, recordings, songbooks, and miscellany concerning the Cornell University Glee Club (CUGC), its managers, directors, members, and alumni. Also included are materials relating to the Cornell Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs (predecessor to the Glee Club), the Cornell Musical Clubs Council (CMCC) (the Glee Club's governing body for many years), the Hangovers (a cappella subset), and the Department of Music. Also included are some papers of the Cornell Chorus, or Cornell Women's Glee Club (CWGC).
Also, scrapbooks (1954-55); USSR/England tour (1960-61); publicity and managerial records (1951-65); and an LP album, "Cornell music," consisting of music of the Glee Club, the Cornell chimes, and the Cornell Concert Band. Also microfilmed minutes and a poster for a Glee Club concert in the Philippines.
Dates
- 1884 - 2014
Creator
- Cornell University. Glee Club (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Biographical / Historical
Organizational history
CHRONOLOGY
- 1889-1921
- Hollis Ellsworth Dann
- 1921-1942
- Eric Sydney Dudley
- 1942-1945
- John Marinus Kuypers
- 1945-1946
- Paul John Weaver
- 1946-1957
- Thomas Brodhead Tracy
- 1957-1995
- Thomas Andrew Sokol
- 1995-2012
- Scott Arthur Tucker
- 2012-2013
- John Rowehl (Interim director)
- 2013-Present
- Robert Isaacs
Extent
16 cubic feet. (16 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, photographs, notebooks, recordings, and miscellany concerning the Cornell University Glee Club, including the complete managerial papers from 1929 to 1980.
SERIES LIST
- <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7a">Subseries A. Printed Material</ref>
- Boxes 17, 18, 21, 23
- <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7b">Subseries B. Posters and Fliers</ref>
- Boxes 30, 32
- <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7c">Subseries C. Sheet Music</ref>
- Boxes 30
- <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7d">Subseries D. Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club Programs</ref>
- Boxes 19-21
Physical Description
Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, photographs, notebooks, recordings, miscellany.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Corey Ryan Earle
- Date completed:
- August 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Corey Ryan Earle, August 2005
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
PARTIAL LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS
Directors
- Hollis E. Dann
- Eric S. Dudley
- John M. Kuypers
- Thomas A. Sokol
- Thomas B. Tracy
- Paul J. Weaver
Graduate Managers
- Romeyn Berry
- R. Selden Brewer
- J. Duncan Sells
- Allan H. Treman
Advisory Council Members
- Robert A. Beck
- Foster M. Coffin
- George L. Coleman
- Robert G. Engel
- H. Victor Grohmann
- Howard A. Heinsius
- Richard C. Howard
- Austin H. Kiplinger
- Richard H. Lee
- Stanley A. Malinowski, Jr.
- Deane W. Malott
- Paul L. McKeegan
- John C. Nicolls
- John S. Ostrom
- William H. Seymour
- W. Barlow Ware
- Bruce W. Widger
- G. Wallace Woodworth
- Theodore P. Wright
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Corey Ryan Earle
- Date
- Aug. 2005
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
- Box: 36 (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 37 (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 38 (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 39 (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
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- Box: 49 (unprocessed) (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu