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Elsa Baklor scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0055
Abstract
Elsa Baklor was a coloratura soprano and music educator who taught at the Peabody Conservatory and privately in the mid-twentieth century. Her collection of five scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, and concert programs related to her career as a performer and teacher.
Dates:
1924-1977
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Enrico Caruso papers
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0072
Abstract
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was one of the most popular operatic tenors of his era. After beginning his career in his native Italy, Caruso immigrated to the United States and became a star at the Metropolitan Opera. His papers include manuscript and published scores belonging to Caruso, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings about his career, caricatures and other artwork, recordings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1906 - 1921
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Rosa Ponselle Museum records
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0005
Abstract
A large collection of artifacts related to the twentieth-century soprano Rosa Ponselle was maintained at the Rosa Ponselle Museum in her hometown of Meriden, Connecticut, from 1999 to 2007. The Rosa Ponselle Museum records contain primarily administrative files created or collected by the museum's director, Lester Dequaine. These include files related to the administration of the Rosa Ponselle Fund, files on the annual Ponselle vocal scholarship, files about the museum's collecting and...
Dates:
1930-2009; Majority of material found within 1983-2009
Found in:
Peabody Archives