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Pursel Family Music Autograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC MS 0298
Abstract
This collection includes famous composers and musicians autographs and related invoices of purchases addressed to Harold Pursel and family. An interesting view into a family hobby of collecting autographs from famous Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century musicians.
Dates:
1906-01-01 - 1971-12-31
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Scrapbook of Bethlehem Bach Choir, January 1917
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0236
Abstract
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to the Bach Choir’s first appearance outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
This event occurred in January 1917 appearing in Carnegie Hall, New YorkCity as a featured participant in the New York
Philharmonic’s 75th anniversary festival. Charles Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Company generously paid for the trip to New York.
Lehigh University’s Henry Drinker provided the logistics for getting the 300 members of the Choir to New York for the...
Dates:
1916-1917; October 1916 to June 2, 1917
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections