[Manuscript Cataloger Michael Austin recently completed a major project to catalog our extensive collection of papers relating to composer and Harvard alumnus Johnny Green. He contributed this post about Green and his collection.] If Johnny Green had listened to his father, the twentieth century would have been deprived of one of its greatest artists in Read More

It’s been a busy month for the manuscript catalogers! Finding aids for 15 newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month, including portraits of burlesque dancers, theatrical costume designs, ephemera from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Shows, and manuscripts of the Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío:

[Thanks to Ward Project Music Cataloger Andrea Cawelti for contributing this post.] Exploding the myth that 19th century balls were sedate affairs, a new acquisition in the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection shows 12 hand-colored lithographs of various balls, ca. 1854. As one can see at a glance, the waltzes and polkas of Read More

Finding aids for four newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by Monique Duhaime and Melanie Wisner: W. Clarkson (Firm) costume designs (MS Thr 571) William Berry Clarkson was born in 1861 into a family of perruquiers (wig-makers) and by the age of twelve was working in the business. Read More

Finding aids for two newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by Michael Austin: Johnny Green Additional Papers (MS Thr 569) Conductor, arranger, and composer Johnny Green, Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s. Among his most well known Read More