Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Zuckerman, Bessie
- Extent:
- 3.8 linear feet (2 document boxes, 5 flat boxes, and 1 oversize flat box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Bessie Zuckerman Papers (Collection 2274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of material relating to Bessie Zuckerman, a prominent member of the community of music associations in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1940. Items include music scores, sheet music, performance programs, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, and publications. The collection also contains a small amount of material concerning the composer and performer Mana-Zucca, and California music and entertainment figure L. E. Behymer.
- Biographical / historical:
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Bessie (Besse) Zuckerman (circa 1886-1968) was a prominent member of the community of music associations in Los Angeles between 1920 and 1940. She founded the Santa Monica Bay Music Association and served as its president. She also served as president of the Bay Cities Music Association, where among other accomplishments she worked to make concerts accessible to school children. In addition, Zuckerman was chairman of the Venice Community Sing and of the Local Convention Board for the California Federation of Music Clubs. In 1926, she accepted an invitation to serve on the Hollywood Bowl Association's Music Committee, and in 1927 the Hollywood Bowl Audition Board extended an invitation to her. Zuckerman was also a member of the Opera Reading Club of Hollywood and the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club, and she organized musical events for the Union League Club of Los Angeles.
- Processing information:
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Collection processed to fulfill requirement in Jonathan Furner's class IS 438B at SLIS. Bio note was written by Rebecca Bucher.
Information regarding the accession of this collection is unknown, and the materials have existed in UCLA Special Collections backlog for an unknown amount of time. Standard archival preservation measures were taken with the photographs and other mixed visual materials, and the music was refoldered. Some of the deteriorating newspaper clippings and photographs were placed in mylar sleeves to facilitate use without further damage.
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- Arrangement:
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This collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Subject files
- Series 2. Correspondence
- Series 3. Photographs
- Series 4. Music
- Series 5. Ephemera
- Series 6. Publications.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Bessie Zuckerman Papers (Collection 2274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988