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manuscripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Christopher Gray papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0311
Scope and Contents This collection of papers relates largely to Christopher Gray's professional life as an art historian and to his extensive research for two important works on 19th century artists. Earlier items in the collection are evidence of Dr. Gray's preparation for his teaching and writing career. Research on many aspects of Art are represented in the papers including architecture, sculpture, and painting from the earliest periods to the modern. Aside from passports, there are no personal items...
Dates: 1937 - 1970

Collection of Abram Moses scores

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0083
Abstract

Abram Moses was a composer and violinist who attended and taught at the Peabody Institute. The collection includes 11 manuscript and Ozalid scores of chamber music and songs by Moses written between approximately 1900 and 1950.

Dates: approximately 1900-1950
Found in: Peabody Archives

Collection of Charles H. Bochau scores

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0079
Abstract

Charles Henry Bochau (1870-1932) was a member of the Peabody Conservatory voice faculty from 1897 to 1932, director of the conservatory's glee club, and one of the founders of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. The collection consists of manuscript and published scores of music composed by Bochau, including vocal music, symphonic music, and chamber music.

Dates: approximately 1895-1932
Found in: Peabody Archives

Copies of letters and papers concerning the "Affaire Carrouges," a Surrealist controversy also called the "Affaire Pastoureau"

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0808
Abstract

This collection contains copies of seven documents created in the 1950s concerning the Surrealist turmoil originating from the ‘Affaire Carrouges’. In 1951, a conflict between Surrealists Henri Pastoureau and Michel Carrouges due to a disagreement about religion resulted in the fracturing of the French Surrealist movement for three months. There is representation from both sides of the conflict in this collection.

Dates: 1950s

Correspondence regarding the Didache manuscript

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055762]
Identifier: MS-0287
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence between Daniel Coit Gilman, Basil Gildersleeve, Nicholas Murray Butler and others regarding obtaining a copy of the Didache manuscript.

Dates: 1885-1888

Dawn Culbertson papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0039
Abstract

Dawn Culbertson was an eclectic musician and composer based in Baltimore who experimented with the lute and recorder. Her papers contain original manuscript compositions, personal papers primarily from her student years, and recordings of her radio show, Exploring Early Music.

Dates: 1972 - 2004
Found in: Peabody Archives

"Dorozhe zhizni" ["Dearer than life"] unpublished samizdat typescript

 Collection — Box BW-18: [Barcode: 31151030132371], Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-0887
Abstract

This collection consists of an unpublished Russian novella typescript written by an anonymous author during approximately the 1960s. The typescript describes a fictional prisoner's experience of a Gulag and the NKVD.

Dates: approximately 1960s

Douglas Southall Freeman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0019
Abstract

Douglas Southall Freeman (1886 – 1953) was an American historian, biographer, newspaper editor, and author best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington. The collection spans the years 1902-1911, and consists primarily of correspondence between Freeman and his parents.

Dates: 1902-1911; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1908

Edwin Charles Cort essay

 Collection — Box BW-13: [Barcode: 31151030055580]
Identifier: MS-0274
Abstract

Edwin Charles Cort received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1907 and was a medical missionary in Siam (Thailand) from 1908 intil 1949. This collection consists of an essay entitled "Thirty Years of Medical Practice in Siam" from approximately 1948.

Dates: approximately 1948

Emmanuel Wad papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0128
Abstract

Emmanuel Wad (1862-1940) was a Danish pianist who taught at the Peabody Conservatory from 1892 to 1919. The Emmanuel Wad papers contain scores of Wad's operas and other works, an essay by Wad, and a family genealogy.

Dates: 1920s to 1940
Found in: Peabody Archives