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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Music Library
Title: Robert Sully papers
Creator:
Sully, Robert
Identifier/Call Number: 1011
Physical Description:
4.42 Linear Feet
3 boxes
Date: 1970s-1997
Abstract: Robert Sully was an actor and a designer. In addition to working for such well known firms as Raymond Loewy Associates, he
also founded his own design firm, the Argonaut Company. He earned a Masters and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School, and taught
at UC Santa Barbara on advertising and culture. The papers include photographs, typescripts, interview transcripts, and letters
for a planned photographic essay on concert artists.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: 1
Container: 2
Container: 3
Photographs, letters, interview transcripts, and typescripts, of and about musicians for a planned photographic essay on concert
artists.
Robert Sully was born on November 20, 1918 in New York City. He was an actor, known for his roles in Meet Me in St. Louis
(1944), Love Letters (1945) and The Heavenly Body (1944). After his acting career, Sully worked in the area of design. He
owned Sully Engineering from 1944-1949; became an executive with Raymond Loewy Associates from 1951-1953; and worked as a
designer at Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall from 1953-1961. In 1961, he founded the Argonaut Company, specializing in design
and planning for commercial, industrial and residential projects. He earned a Masters and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School.
After moving to Santa Barbara in 1992, he taught courses at UC Santa Barbara on advertising and culture. Sully died on May
15, 2007 in Santa Barbara.
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[Box/folder# or item name], Robert Sully papers, Collection no. 1011, Music Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California
Donated by Peter Williams, July 2, 2010.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Musicians -- 20th century -- Photographs
Musicians -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Interviews
Negatives (photographic)
Photographs
Typescripts
Sully, Robert -- Archives
American Ballet Theatre -- Photographs
Ashkenazy, Vladimir -- Photographs
Bennett, Tony -- Photographs
Kipnis, Igor -- Photographs
Marceau, Marcel -- Photographs
Menuhin, Yehudi -- Photographs
Ormandy, Eugene -- Photographs
Piatigorsky, Gregor -- Photographs
Rampal, Jean-Pierre -- Photographs
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 -- Photographs
Rubinstein, Artur -- Photographs
Segovia, Andrés -- Photographs
Sills, Beverly -- Photographs
Stern, Isaac -- Photographs
Sutherland, Joan -- Photographs