Finding Aid for the Stanley Ring Collection 1906-1934
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Stanley Ring Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1906-1934
Collection number: 94-M
Creator: Ring,
Stanley
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection consists of printed music, lists and
catalogs, various letters and contracts, sound recordings, brochures, magazines,
and musical comedy sheet music from Stanley Ring's Music Store in
Hollywood.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Stanley Ring Collection, 94-M, Performing Arts
Special Collections , University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Ring owned a music store in Hollywood; published Comedy song guide :
containing 1600 of the world's best known comedy song titles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of printed music, lists and catalogs, various letters and
contracts, sound recordings, brochures, magazines, and musical comedy sheet
music from Stanley Ring's Music Store in Hollywood.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Catalogs
- Series 2. Sight Singing Books
- Series 3. Ring Publications
- Series 4. Periodicals
- Series 5. Correspondence
- Series 6. Business Papers
- Series 7. Personal Papers
- Series 8. Clippings
- Series 9. Printed Music
- Series 10. Programs
- Series 11. Photographs
- Series 12. Scripts
Series 1.
Catalogs
Scope and Content Note
Sound Recording catalogs
Subseries 1.
Book Catalogs
Box 16, Folder 5
The Clique: The Antiquarian Bookseller's Medium
1949 October 8 - 1952 March 8
Note
Page number Ring advertisement indicated on cover.
Box 18
Assorted music publication catalogs
1923-1978
Note
Titles: Comprehensive Catalog of Vocal Solos, Jerome H. Remick &
Co. Catalog, New Piano Teacher's Guide, 40 Years of Hit Tunes, Century House
Americana Publishers, Handbook of American Sheet Music, Musical
Americana.
Box 18
Samuel French Basic Catalog of Plays
1978
Subseries 2.
Sound Recording Catalogs
Box 16, Folder 4
Victor Record Catalogs
1906 January - May
Scope and Content Note
January: Alphabetical list. Includes the January supplement. May: Cover
(featuring Nipper) only.
Box 18
Assorted Sound Recording Catalogs
1913-1960
Scope and Content Note
Titles: Bluebird Popular Records, Edison Blue Amberol Records, Value Catalog
of Caruso
Box 24
Victor Record Catalogs
1914-1925
Series 2.
Sight Singing Books
Scope and Content Note
"The Folk Song"
Box 16, Folder 2
The Folk Song Sight Singing Series
1933
Publisher: New York, Carl Fischer
Note
Books V and VI.
Series 3.
Ring Publications
Scope and Content Note
comedy song guide
Box 16, Folder 3
Comedy Song Guide
1950
Note
On cover, "Containing 1600 of the world's best known comedy song
titles."
Box 16, Folder 1
Antiquarian Bookman
1951-1964
Scope and Content Note
6 volumes
Note
Includes advertisements for the Ring store.
Box 19
Theatre Arts
1949 January- 1956 November
Box 20
Assorted Jazz Periodicals
1940-1953
Scope and Content Note
Titles: HRS Society Rag, Jazz Information, Jazz Miscellany, Jazz Music, Jazz
Quarterly, Jazz Review, Jazz Tempo, The Jazzfinder, Northern Society for Jazz
Study, Piano Jazz, The Second Line.
Box 20
Rock It magazine
Publisher: 1984 Winter- 1985 Spring
Scope and Content Note
2 issues
Box 20
Theatre Arts
1956 November -1962 June
Scope and Content Note
7 issues.
Subseries 1.
Business Correspondence
Box 24
Letter to Transportation Companies
1960 October
Scope and Content Note
Example of mass mailing marketing campaign targeting moving companies.
Subseries 2.
Personal Correspondence
Box 17, Folder 6
Ring Personal Correspondence
1947-1963
Subseries 3.
Unidentified Correspondence
Series 6.
Business Papers
Box 17, Folder 1
Working Notes
Scope and Content Note
Assorted notes related to Ring's business.
Box 17, Folder 8
Sketches
Scope and Content Note
Possibly drafts for catalog covers.
Box 17, Folder 9
Advertising
1950 and unknown
Scope and Content Note
Includes information on classified advertising and printing molds.
Box 26
Business receipts
1956
Scope and Content Note
Various receipts for business expenses arranged by month.
Box 26
Checkbook register
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
Register includes stubs for written checks and blank unused checks.
Box 17, Folder 2
Assorted Financial Documents
1948-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes receipts, bills, tax documents.
Box 17, Folder 3
Ring's Business Receipts
1946-1953
Box 21
Business Ledgers
1958-1963
Physical Description: 5 books
Scope and Content Note
Records of business expenditures.
Box 22
Bank of America Statements
1957-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes monthly bank statements, cashed checks and deposit slips.
Box 23
Bank of America Statements
1957-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes monthly bank statements, cashed checks and deposit slips.
Box 24
Business Ledger
1946-1950
Physical Description: 1 book
Scope and Content Note
Record of payments owed to Ring's.
Series 7.
Personal Papers
Box 17, Folder 4
Stanley Ring Medical Bills
1951-1959
Scope and Content Note
Bills for doctor visits and hospital stays.
Box 17, Folder 5
Stanley Ring Personal Items
1942-1963
Scope and Content Note
Includes social security card, selective service letter, car registration and
various receipts.
Box 17, Folder 7
Assorted unprocessed clippings
Box 11
Printed Music (unprocessed)
Box 25, Folder 6
Musician's Handbook Standard Dance Music Guide- Book One
1954
Publisher: Brooklyn, New York, A. Ray De
Vita
Physical Description: 50 p.
Box 25, Folder 7
Light Opera at Home
1917
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Parts: piano and voice
Physical Description: 256 p.
Box 25, Folder 8
College Songs
Publisher: Associated Oil
Physical Description: 13 p.
Box 25, Folder 9
Selections from Assorted Musicals
Box 25, Folder 10
Masterworks of R. Hattori
1959
Publisher: Tokyo, Japan/ Zen-on Music Publ. Co.,
Ltd.
Language of Material: English, Japanese
Physical Description: piano and voice
99 p.
Box 4
Theater Programs
1980-1929
Box 25, Folder 1
Morosco Theatre Programs
Scope and Content Note
Programs include "A Stubborn Cinderella," "The Girl Behind the Counter," and
"When Knights were Bold." Theater located in Burbank, California.
Box 25, Folder 2
Hamburger's Majestic Theatre
1913
Scope and Content Note
Programs for "The Politicians," and "Babes in Toyland," "The Rich Mr.
Hoggenheimer," and "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz." Theater located in Los Angeles,
California.
Box 25, Folder 3
Fischer's Lyceum Theatre
1912
Scope and Content Note
Program for "The Man Who Owns Broadway." Theater located in Los Angeles,
California.
Box 25, Folder 4
Mason Opera House
Scope and Content Note
Program for "Gypsy Love."
Box 25, Folder 5
The Playgoer
1934
Scope and Content Note
Program for "The Mikado." Performed at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los
Angeles, California.
