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Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0029
Abstract
John C. Vollbracht was a Baltimore-based piano teacher in the early 20th century. The collection contains concert programs from the performances of his pupils and personal banking notebooks.
Dates:
1905 - 1916
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0089
Abstract
The Lyric Theatre of Baltimore opened in 1894 and was one of the most important concert venues in the city for much of the twentieth century, hosting regular performances by the Metropolitan Opera Company, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera Company, and many notable individual musicians. The Lyric Theatre records contain materials from 1893 to 1976 including correspondence, financial records, minutes of trustees meetings, photographs, concert programs, guest lists, and...
Dates:
1893 - 1976
Record Group
Identifier: PIRG-02
Abstract
Records documenting activities of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Institute. Includes: 12 volumes and several additional folders of recorded minutes of board meetings (1857-1985); Treasurer's reports (1867-1969); Provost's reports (1869-1912); Executive Secretary's reports (1912-45); miscellaneous general records and correspondence; records of the Offices of the President (1859-1970), Vice-President (1876-1905), Secretary (1860-1922), and Treasurer (1857-1941), the bulk of the latter...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1832-1989; Majority of material found within Bulk: 1857-1985
Collection
Identifier: PIRG-04
Abstract
The position of Peabody Institute executive secretary existed from 1911 to 1941 and was a successor to the provost, who served under the trustees' executive committee. Records in this collection include the following: correspondence concerning Gallery of Art exhibitions (1911-1928), including an exhibition in conjunction with the National Star Spangled Banner Centennial exhibition in 1914; correspondence concerning the Rinehart School of Sculpture of the Maryland Institute; minutes of...
Dates:
1911-1941
Collection
Identifier: PIRG-03
Abstract
Records documenting the activities of the executive office of the Institute. Includes correspondence from prospective lecturers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Fiske, and James Russell Lowell (1867-1913); correspondence concerning the library, including letters received from Abram Stevens Hewitt of Cooper Union, E. W. Blatchford of the Newberry Library, and Melvil Dewey; numerous letters from the Institute librarian, Philip R. Uhler, to the provost reporting library activities during the...
Dates:
1861 - 1916
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0070
Abstract
The Theater Chamber Players, founded by Peabody Institute faculty members Dina Koston and Leon Fleisher, were a chamber music ensemble that featured 20th-century music and was based primarily in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 2003. The TCP records include administrative and business documents, correspondence, working files, concert programs, publicity material, photographs, recordings, scores, and reference material.
Dates:
1960-2007
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0032
Abstract
The collection contains chiefly printed material from 1872 to 1889 gathered by Theodor von Muncker, mayor of the Bavarian town of Bayreuth during the period of the construction and opening of the Festspielhaus theater designed for Richard Wagner. Documents in the collection are related to the administration and programming of the Festspielhaus and the Richard Wagner-Verein.
Dates:
1872 - 1889
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0135
Abstract
William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) was a sculptor from Maryland whose estate led to the creation of the Rinehart Fund for artists, administered by the Peabody Institute. The William Henry Rinehart papers, 1858-1903, contain materials from Rinehart and from the trustees of his estate. A bound volume of correspondence contains letters to and from Rinehart and correspondence among his trustees, most notably William T. Walters, John W. Paine, and William H. Herriman. Additional papers of...
Dates:
1858-1892 and 1903
