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Inter-War European Scrapbooks - Ephemera

Accession: SC1998.29

Location: M2A 6,3-4

Size: 2.5 feet

Biography: Unknown

Provenance: Unknown

Scope and Content: This series of scrapbooks contains programs and newspaper clippings relating to musical performances in Vienna and Prague from 1916-1939. The scrapbooks were compiled very meticulously, with some effort even made to record performances in writing when a program is missing. It appears that the compiler intended to make a complete record of major musical events, especially opera and orchestral concerts, in these two cities. Some material from other locations is also present, including London and the United States. As a whole, the scrapbooks a remarkably good survey of major musical events in Vienna and Prague between the two world wars.

Associations: Watanabe Special Collections possesses a collection of imprints relating to music published in Germany during the Nazi regime of approximately the same time period.

Restrictions: none

Series: 1

Series Name: Ephemera

Series Description: The series consists entirely of scrapbooks compiled in chronological order from 1916 to 1939.