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Title: Benno Häupl collection
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 122
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.55 linear feet
(10 document boxes, 1 half-size document box, 1 flat box)
Creator:
Häupl, Benno
Date (inclusive): 1860-1989
Abstract: Approximately 2,100 postcards, cabinet cards, "cartes-de-visite" and other albumen prints featuring musicians with their instruments
from around the world, as well as Country and Western, Cajun, and Folk sound recording research files amassed by ethnographic
78 rpm disc and photograph collector Benno Häupl.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Benno Häupl collection, PA Mss 122. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Approximately 2,100 postcards, cabinet cards, "cartes-de-visite" and other albumen prints amassed by ethnographic 78 rpm disc
and photograph collector Benno Häupl. The collection is global in scope, featuring anonymous traditional musicians with their
instruments from all regions of the world, including Africa, Eurasia, North and South America, and Oceania. Particularly well
represented are photographs of bagpipers with regional varieties of bagpipes from countries such as Estonia, Armenia, Austria,
Russia, Macedonia, India, Serbia, Libya, Sudan and Portugal. The dates of these photographs range from 1860-1970. While the
bulk of the collection consists of postcards, it also includes cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, unbacked albumen prints, stereoscopic
photographs, small albumen portraits and a daguerrotype, assorted modern photographic prints of record disc labels, record
disc collections and collectors, and a photographic print of the Martin Cayla storefront.
The collection also contains sound recording research files created by Häupl. Most of these files cover Country and Western
music, including numerical listings of Country and Western and banjo recordings, research files on Country, Cajun and Folk
recordings, correspondence (incoming), and programs.
The collection has been divided into two series: 1. Photographs and 2. Research files.
Häupl's vast collection of 78 rpm discs, encompassing ethnic, traditional, and regional music, has been separated for cataloging
on UC Santa Barbara Library's online catalog.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ethnomusicology
Musicians -- Pictorial works
Musical instruments -- Pictorial works
Bagpipe -- Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Cabinet photographs
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Postcards
Research (documents)
Häupl, Benno -- Archives