Guide to the Frederick P. Williams Papers
Guide to the Frederick P. Williams Papers
Collection number: PA Mss 72
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Pearl Ko, Zachary Liebhaber
- Date Completed:
- 12/9/2011
- Encoded by:
- Zachary Liebhaber
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection Contents
Series I. Artist files
Creatore, Giuseppe
"Giuseppe Creatore," by Frederick Williams, Hillandale News No. 210, 1996
"Giuseppe Creatore: Flamboyant Genius of the Concert Stage," by Frederick Williams, ARSC Vol. 31, No. 1, 2000
"Giuseppe Creatore: The Life and Recorded Legacy," by Frederick Williams, ARSC Presentation, 1988
Articles, programs xeroxes
Programs, clippings xeroxes
Notes, clippings
Correspondence: Daniel Cillis
Correspondence: Solomon Goodman
Correspondence: other
Interview transcript with Sam and Alba Carollo, Luigi Creatore
Creatore Band recordings
Rigler-Deutsch Index xeroxes
Biography notes
Biography and notes, 1997
Biography, 1999
Biography, corrected for Barry Ashpole, 2000
Biography and discography
Kryl, Bohumir
ARSC lecture, 1992
CD project
Scrapbook xeroxes
Minichini, Salvatore
Correspondence: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Minichini, news clipping
Correspondence: Elisa Koehler
ARSC lecture, 6/11/1994
Articles, programs xeroxes, business card
Research material, xeroxes
Associated Musicians of Greater New York Journal
Pryor, Arthur
Clippings, correspondence
Discography
LP project materials
LP project finished liner notes
Sousa, John Philip
Band personnel, 1892-1931
Band personnel, 2000
Biography by Helen Sousa Abert, as told to Al G. Wright
Biographies by Fred Williams
Clippings
Sousa and Herbert Clarke - testimony on patents
Centennial celebration
Correspondence: Alfred Ricciardi
Discography of marches on Crystal Records
Discography by Paul Bierley
Discography by Paul Bierley (draft)
Discography by Paul Bierley (draft of chapter 1)
Keith Brion and the New Sousa Band
Sousa LP project
Miscellaneous artists
Bell, William J.
Blankenburg, Hermann Ludwig
Clarke, Herbert - CD project
Clarke, Herbert - research
Contorno, Nicholas J.
Dodworth, Harvey B.
Giannini, Ferruccio
Haight, John T.
Harper, Robert
Hazel, John
Hoe, Robert
Hoe, Robert - letters, 1975-1978
Hoe, Robert - letters, 1979-1989
Hummel, Silas E.
Kendziora, Carl
Kiefer, Joe
King, Karl
Koennecke, Emil
Lanin, Howard
Longy, Georges
Lufsky, Marshall
Missud, Jean
Ormandy, Eugene
Rogers, Walter B.
Schoendorfer, Frank
Sodero, Cesare
Stokowski, Leopold
Swift, George
Thaviu, Alexander Freiman
White, Edna
Wilson, Meredith
Series II. Band files
Notes
American brass bands
Banda di Chieti
Coast Guard band
Cornet, trumpet research 1
Cornet, trumpet research 2
Cornet, trumpet research 3
Eastman Wind Ensemble
Great American community band
Italian bands
Marine band project 1
Marine band project 2
Marine band project correspondence
Navy band
Pioneer concert, military band recordings
Valley Forge national history park
Ward Hodge notebook
Ward Hodge notes 1
Ward Hodge notes 2
Ward Hodge notes 3
Articles
"A Brief History of Brass Band Music in Williamsport, PA," by John Hunsinger
"Bassoonists I Have Known," by Harrington E. Crissey Jr. The Double Reed, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2002
"Breakdown," "Pyaduchov's Law," JALT articles on Russian soloists
Mit klingendem Spiel, translation, 1996
Bands in Ecuador
Clippings from The Leader
Cornet and trumpet exercises by Del Staigers
Enrico Caruso, by J. Freestone and H.J. Drummond
History of the U.S. marine band, by Kenneth William Carpenter
Indiana University tuba-euphonium oral history project, by Carole Nowicke
Italian band articles
Jazz Museum of Hamburg
Kiefer brass band instruments
Miscellaneous clippings, 1930s, 1940s
Miscellaneous clippings 2
Miscellaneous clippings, from Frank Byrne
On the Go: A Critical biography of the life and work of Edwin Franko Goldman and the Goldman band, by Herbert N. Johnston, Part I
On the Go: A Critical biography of the life and work of Edwin Franko Goldman and the Goldman Band, by Herbert N. Johnston, Part II
Pennsy Pops
Philadelphia mummery: Individual rewards and social interaction, by Andrea Ignatoff Rothberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980), Part I
Philadelphia mummery: Individual rewards and social interaction, by Andrea Ignatoff Rothberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980), Part II (Chapters V-VIII)
Philadelphia mummery: Individual rewards and social interaction, by Andrea Ignatoff Rothberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980), Part III (Chapters IX-end)
Radio Music Transcription Services - Rodney W. Baum
Record dating guide
School band recordings
Strike up the bands!
The copyrights of Edward T. Paul
University band songs
US Army Band xeroxed materials
Wind bands of nineteenth Century Italy, by James Herbert
Wyoming historical and geological society xeroxes
"Zavertal and the Royal artillery band," by Henry George Farmer
Series III. Articles by Frederick P. Williams
"A History of recorded pioneer wind literature"
"Ideas on beginning a 78's Record collection," 1973
"Scots guard and Black watch pipers Give stirring performance"
"Stabsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr: A First rate band"
"The times as reflected in the Victor Black Label," Part 1
"The times as reflected in the Victor Black Label," Part 2
"The times as reflected in the Victor Black Label," Part 3
"The Times as Reflected in the Victor Black Label," Parts 1-3
"Brass band cylinders and micro-groove disc recordings," 1903-1960
"Concert, military band ramblings"
ITG - "Cornet solos by pioneer American recording artists made prior to 1906"
"Review: The Music Men, by Margaret H. Hazen and Robert M. Hazen"
Various band music articles and ARSC lectures (master copies)
Willow Grove Park, Chestnut Hill local news
Willow Grove Park, master copies
Willow Grove Park, sent to Meredith Wilson
Willow Grove Park, notes
Willow Grove Park, presentation materials
Willow Grove Park, postcards
Willow Grove Park, programs, clippings, xeroxes
Sousa band articles, 1892-1922
Recorded Sousa marches research
Recorded Sousa marches draft
Series IV. University of Iowa Special Collections: Chautauqua Collection
Chautauqua Collection Info
Al Sweet
Thaviu
Vitale
Weber
Various 1
Various 2
Kryl 1
Kryl 2
Kryl 3
Kryl 4
Kryl 5
Kryl 6
Kryl 7
Series V. Musicians Protection Agency directories
1898
1900
1902
1903
1908
1909, copy 1
1909, copy 2
1910
1911
1913
1914
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922-1924
1923
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1931
Series VI. Sound recording files
Record Research Associates
Directories
Finance, administration
Presentations
Questionnaire
"Minutes" supplemental information
Correspondence 1
Correspondence 2
Circus
Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth - score
Circus band articles
Circus LP research
Circus LP xeroxes 1
Circus LP xeroxes 2
Circus World Museum xeroxes
Circus scrapbook articles
Circus scrapbook photos, postcards
Circus scrapbook miscellaneous
Collections, want lists
Collection of Ada Jones Memorial
Collection of Andre Jobin 1
Collection of Andre Jobin 2
Collection of Bill Bryant
Collection of Bill Legere
Collection of Bill Pruyn
Collection of Bryen E. Lorenz
Collection of Dolores Wishart
Collection of John M. Johnston
Collection of M. Janoff
Collection of Paul Bierley
Collection of Price James Memorial Library
Collection of Richard Bull
Discographical list 1
Discographical list 2
Discographical list 3
Discographical list 4
Discographical list 5
Discographical list 6
Discographical list 7
Fred Williams collection: 78s
Fred Williams collection: radio transcriptions
Fred Williams want list: Eastman Wind Ensemble
Fred Williams want list: Edison cylinders
Fred Williams want list: Robert Hoe records
Fred Williams want list: various
Gus Kuhlman want list
Record auctions, exchanges
1970s
1980-1986
1987
1988
1991, January-April
1991, May-July
1991, August-October
1991, November-December
2000s
Outgoing
Outgoing 2
Various auctions
Series VII. Discographies
American vintage labelography
Conway band
Flute and Piccolo recordings
Geiger, Loren
Gennett masters, 1924-1934, military bands
Gennett masters, early recordings
Gennett masters, lateral 100s
Gennett masters, lateral 7000s
Gennett masters, NY, 7736-9120
Gennett masters, Richmond, IN, 11000-12052
Gennett masters, vertical 1000s
Gennett masters, vertical 100s
Gennett masters, vertical 5000s
Gluck, Alma
Hoe, Robert
Italian bands
Italian wind instrumental music
Kendziora, Carl
Lavalle, Paul
Mantia, Simone
Mendez, Raphael
New York Military band, 1907-1929, Edison
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company band
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Salvation Army band
Sinatra, Frank - discography, filmography 1
Sinatra, Frank - discography, filmography 2
Spanish bands
U.S. Recording co. Elite 1
U.S. Recording co. Elite 2
Victor 12" military dance records discography
Victor records catalogue, 1913-1923
Victor records catalogue, 1924-1935
Wiedoft, Rudy
Cornet, trumpet, horn, bugle solo recordings
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, sections 1-2 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, section 3 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, sections 4-6 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, sections 7-8 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, sections 9-13 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, section 14 [draft]
Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, sections 15, 16, 20 [draft]
Thesaurus Transcriptions Vol. 1
World Radio Transcriptions 100-758
World Transcriptions Original Series 1-11268
Series VIII. Catalogues
NBC thesaurus military band
Library of Congress Rigler-Deutsch Index
Victor numerical list of records, 3/1/1906
Victor numerical list of records, 5/1/1907
Victor numerical list of records, May 1911
Lista numérico de discos Victor, Julio 1911
Victor numerical list of records, 1923, 1
Victor numerical list of records, 1923, 2
Victor numerical list of records, 1928, 1
Victor numerical list of records, 1928, 2
King Oliver, 1923, Gennett
RCA South American catalogue, 1930
Indestructible Records
Emerson catalogue, September 1921
Early Columbia, Busy Bee Pathé, 1923
HMV La Voce del Padrone, 1898-1929
National Gram-o-phone Records, June 1899
Bluebird Filter Records ledger cards
Crown Sunrise ledger cards
Various ledger cards
Victor ledger cards
Muzak 800-999
Muzak 1000-1199
Muzak 1200-1399
Muzak 1400-1599
Muzak 1600-1799
Muzak 1800-1999
Muzak 2000-2199
Muzak 2200-2399
Muzak 2400-2599
Muzak 2600-2799
Muzak 2800-2899
Series IX. Correspondence
From Cuba and Mexico, 1916-1920
From Cuba and Mexico, 1921-1928
From South Africa, 1927-1928
From London, 1928
From London, 1929-1930
From Bulgaria, 1929-1931
From Bulgaria, 1932-1933
Concerning deaths of FW's parents, 1932, 1933
Other letters, cards, invitations
Postcards, ca. early 20th century
Older letters (FPW Sr.'s father)
Irate letter from Paul Bierley, 1990
Leonard Smith
Pat Wheeler, incoming
Pat Wheeler, outgoing
Rick van Santwood
Solomon Goodman
Request for research funding
Various correspondence, postcards
Series X. Local Activities
Charles Dickens theater performance
Pastorius Park concerts
Symphony Club information
Series XI. Miscellaneous
CV Fred Williams
Gramophone needles (fibre, steel)
Garrard Transcription Motor Manual
Miscellaneous personal items
Victor mailings for Gimbels and Jno. N. Taylor, ca. 1919
Letters from a Globe Trotter (Elmer D. Raymond), Written for Members of the Round-the-World Society (bound volume)
Sweet Caporal cigarette cards
Series XII. Posters
Empire Theater, Philadelphia, 1891
Sousa advertisements, 1895, 1923
Columbia Grafonola, 1920
The Etude - Sigrid Onegin, 1923
Giuseppe Creatore, 1925
Geo W. Simons Bro - Sword Manufacturing and Jewelers
New York Times, 1912, 1914
Creatore's band
Berliner Gramophone
Graphophone Grand
United States Army band tribute to Merle Evans
Series XIII. Programs
Lakewood: J. Howard Richardson's miniature symphonic orchestra, 1900
Maplewood casino programs
Maplewood morning concert programs, 1900-1902
National Home Orchestra: opera house, Togus, Maine, 1893-1894
Adelina Patti's farewell program, 1903
Arthur Pryor
Blossom Time, 1941
Community Concert Association
Dance recital programs
Ellery Band in Chicago xeroxes
Her Majesty's Opera Company
Hunting Park
Ladies' minstrel and vaudeville program, 1904
Miscellaneous programs, 1920-1949
Italian conductors in New York, 1926-1934
Philadelphia programs, 19th c.
Oberlin college
Percy Grainger at Emery auditorium, OH, 1928
Sousa programs [1]
Sousa programs [2]
Various song programs
Willow Grove park
York, PA programs
American Academy of Music
Star Gambol of the Lambs, 1898
Series XIV. Photos
Personal
South Africa mines
South America
Postcard photos
Fred P. Williams (father)
Emma Williams (mother) and young Fred Williams
Fred and Emma Williams (parents)
Fred and Barbara Williams as children
Extended family
Fred Williams later life
School bands
Sheppard school, 1957, 1959
Sheppard school student information
Stetson junior high, 1955-1956
Stetson junior high, 1957
Stetson junior high, 1957, duplicates, small
Stetson junior high (various) duplicates
Soloists
Negatives
Aida quartet
Church, Bowen R.
Clarke, Herbert L.
Creatore, Giuseppe (portraits)
Creatore, Giuseppe (small photos)
Female soloists
Goldman, Edwin Franko
Kryl (portraits, scrapbook photos)
Kryl (small photos)
Levy, Jules
Meeker, Ed
Minichini, Salvatore
Pryor, Arthur
Sousa, John Philip (portraits)
Sousa, John Philip (band)
Stone, Fred O.
Bands
Various soloists, small portraits
Airforce band
Manhattan Beach band, 1884
Coast Guard band
Early Philadelphia bands, Kindel's Mackey's municipal, ca. 1990
James Campbell school band
Philadelphia bands (PRT, Allentown, etc.)
Singing Hussar band
US Marine bands
Various bands
Band postcards
Series XV. Oversize photos
School bands
Stetson junior high, (1957, 1960) 1
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 2
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 3
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 4
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 5
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 6
Stetson junior high, 1957, 1960, 7
Stetson junior high, 1959 1
Stetson junior high, 1959 2
Stetson junior high, 1959 3
Stetson junior high, 1959 4
Stetson junior high, 1959 5
Soloists
Elsa Alsen
Albert Eckenroth
Bohumir Kryl
Various (and conductors)
Bands
Montage of soloists, reprints
Albert Eckenroth's band [1]
Albert Eckenroth's band [2]
Albert Eckenroth's band [3]
Sousa's band
Various band photos
Mines
Roan Antelope mine, South Africa, 1927
Santa Rita mine, New Mexico 1
Santa Rita mine, New Mexico 2
Sousa's band
Hippodrome, NY, 1919
Denver auditorium, CO., 12/3/1921
Civic auditorium, San Francisco, 12/25/1921
Unidentified photograph
Philadelphia
Philadelphia bands, Albert Eckenroth 5 items
Philadelphia bands, Albert Eckenroth
Military
111th Machine Gun Battalion, Camp McClellan, Ala., 1/25/1918 2
Army Air Force Concert band
Series XVI. Oversize
Frame display photos 2 items
Sousa band uniform
William H. Seward speech, 1/12/1865
The Household, Vol. 6 No. 4
Early 19th century Philadelphia deeds and records
Early 19th century map of land formerly of John Burke
Series XVII. Conferences, events
ARSC, 1983
ARSC 1987
ARSC, 1987, presentation, notes
ARSC, 1989
ARSC, 1989, Kryl presentation
ARSC, 1993 1993
Association of Concert Bands, Rochester, NY, 1990
Association of Concert Bands, presentation materials
College Band Directors National Association, 1986
Eastman Wind Ensemble 40th anniversary, Rochester, NY, 1992
Great American Band festival, Conference on American band history, 1992
Great American Brass Band festival, 1991
Ithaca college presentation, 1991
Philadelphia mummer's parade, 1980
Philadelphia mummer's parade, 1988
"Soundings" symposium at Syracuse university library, 1995
Sousa centennial concert, 1992
Windjammers Baraboo, WI, 1993
Windjammers Baraboo, WI, 2002
Windjammers Kettering, OH, 2000
Windjammers Edinboro, PA, 1992
Windjammers Des Moines, IA, 1996
Windjammers Sarasota, FL, 1995-1996
Windjammers Allentown, PA, 1995
Windjammers Indianapolis, IN, 2000
Windjammers Sarasota, FL, 2001
Windjammers Kettering, OH, 1994
Windjammers San Francisco, CA, 1999
Windjammers Williamsport, PA, 1997
Windjammers newsletters
Series XVIII. Fall 2012 addition
Paul Whiteman Victor recordings list
Miscellaneous clippings
The Musical Messenger xeroxed articles
Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic, Chicago, [1] 1994
Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic, Chicago, [2] 1994
ARSC conference, 1992
ARSC conference, 1995
ARSC conference, 1996
ARSC conference, 1997
ARSC conference, 2000
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1981
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1982
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1983
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1984
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1985
Philadelphia String Band judging materials, 1988
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1897
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1899
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1900
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1901
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1902
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1903
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1905
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1906
Willow Grove Park concert programs, 1907
Willow Grove Park nostalgia
Willow Grove Park photographs
Willow Grove Park slide presentation research
Virginia Grand Military Band, program
University of Illinois symphonic band recording inventory
Jones, C. SFC BAND annoucements
Miscellaneous programs
Valley Forge Military Band
100 Years of Military Music: The Story of Kneller Hall by Lieutant Colonel P.L. Binns
Miscellaneous programs
Association of Concert Bands
Miscellaneous journals, newsletters
Ted Hegvik file
R.B. Hall file
Pastorius Park Concerts, 1977
Upper Darby Sousa band photograph, 2004
Pryor photograph xeroxes
The Concert Band of Lulu Temple
Interviews
Musical Fund Society Cotillion, May, 2001
James Herbert and Penny Pops, program and photo
Norristown band, Jeffrey Wright
Bands of the past: Philadelphia bands of 50 years ago by William R. Bayley
Eastman Wind Ensemble, 50th Anniversary Symposium
Band music and recordings 1981, ABA library
Sets of band parts, Graham Cameron Museum
Event at the Radisson Hotel
Presentation materials
ABC convention, April 1995
Bands of America, presentation
Symphony club, 1979
Miscellaneous programs
John Gillies correspondence
Bill Connors, Mummers, 5/28/91
Kidder Peabody
Correspondence, miscellaneous