Finding aid for the Mary Wood Hinman collection of English folk songs 0035
Lindsay Anderson
USC Libraries Special Collections
2017 March
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Mary Wood Hinman collection of English folk songs
creator:
Hinman, Mary Wood
Identifier/Call Number: 0035
Identifier/Call Number: 38
Physical Description:
0.84 Linear Feet
2 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1823-1917
Abstract: The Mary Wood Hinman Collection consists of teaching materials for folk dancing, piano forte and some violin music books,
programs for plays, photographs, sheet music, newspaper clippings as well as presidential and American history related items
that have been collected by Mary Wood Hinman. The items document Hinman's long career as a folk dance teacher, choreographer,
musician, lyricist and more. Mary Wood Hinman is regarded as an American scholar who helped to lead in the expansion and awareness
of folk dancing in the United States.
Biographical / Historical
Mary Wood Hinman was born on February 14, 1878 in the state of Ohio. She began her career as a teacher to the local neighborhood
children as a teenager as a way to help her family through financial distress. She later traveled to Europe where she had
the opportunity to study gymnastics and folk dancing. Hinman eventually came back to America and settled in Chicago, Illinois
where she developed a teacher-training school that prepared women to teach folk dances in parks, schools and settlement houses.
In 1898, she worked with Jane Addams and her colleagues at Hull House where she taught folk dancing to immigrants, and in
1905 she ventured into business when she opened the Hinman School of Folk Dancing. From around 1906 to 1919, Hinman worked
with philosopher, psychologist and education reformer John Dewey where they developed dancing and gymnastics programs as part
of the kindergarten through high school curriculum for what is now the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. It was at
the University of Chicago where Hinman also took part in choreographing and writing songs for plays and jigs, such as "The
Pseudo-Suffragettes", "The Pursuit of Portia", and "The Wooing of Nan" for the English Language and Literature Department.
She later moved from Illinois to New York where she helped to establish the Folk Festival Council of New York in 1930 and
taught as well as developed courses at a university that is now known as The New School in Manhattan around 1932. Mary Wood
Hinman retired from her teaching career in 1938 and relocated once more to Los Angeles, California where she lived until she
passed away on July 4, 1952.
Scope and Contents
The Mary Wood Hinman Collection consists of teaching materials for folk dancing, piano forte and some violin music books,
programs for plays, photographs, sheet music, newspaper clippings as well as presidential and American history related items
that have been collected by Mary Wood Hinman. The collection also contains items involving plays that Hinman took part in
mainly as a choreographer, such as "The Pseudo-Suffragettes", "The Pursuit of Portia" and "The Wooing of Nan", as well as
original songs that she possibly wrote lyrics for, such as "My Man John" and "The Keeper".
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Mary Wood Hinman collection of English folk songs, Collection no. 0035, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Folk dancing -- Archival resources
Music -- Study and teaching -- Archival resources
Piano-harp music -- Archival resources
Clippings
Plays (performed works)
Sheet music
Hinman, Mary Wood -- Archives
Box 1, Folder 1
The Bassingham Play
1823
Scope and Contents
Item is a five-page script and was written by an unnamed writer.
Box 1, Folder 2
La Cendrillon, the Celebrated Eighth Set of French Quadrilles. Composed and Arranged for the PIano Forte
circa 1835
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book composed by the director of the Orechetra of the Nobilities Balls, P. Musard and had been performed by
Messers. Collinet, Michau and Musard. Item had been dedicated to the Countess of Sefton and was also printed and sold in London
by Chappell & Co. Music. Song titles include "Mrs. Mitchell", "Mrs. Broadhead", "Mrs. Seymour", "Countess of Sefton", and
"La Cendrillon".
Box 1, Folder 3
The Welcome Guest: A Collection of Modern Pinao-Forte Music
1863
Physical Description: Item shows visible signs of water damage.
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book containing a repertoire of pieces for home amusement, such as rondos, nocturnes, marches, watlzes, polkas,
quadrilles and more. Item was also published in Boston by Henry Toleman & and Co.
Box 1, Folder 4
Contra-dance Album for Piano and 1st Violin
1880
Scope and Contents
Items are duet music books for the piano and for the 1st violin which features thirty short songs. Item had also been copyrighted
by Jean White.
Box 1, Folder 5
Three Dances from Henry VIII
1892
Scope and Contents
Item is a pianoforte music book composed by Edward German with a dedication to Henry Irving. Item was copyrighted in London
by Novello, Ewer and Co. and includes three songs: "Morris Dance", "Shepherds' Dance" and "Torch Dance".
Box 1, Folder 7
Six Songs
1897
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book featuring six songs, "Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart?", "Summer Shower", "A Train Went Through
a Burial Gate", "The Lovers", "Poor Little Heart" and "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed", in which the titles were named after
poems by Emily Dickinson and the music had been composed by Clarence Dickinson. Item was published and copyrighted in Chicago
by Samuel Merwin and Company.
Box 1, Folder 6
Seven Songs from Tilfredshaden
1892, 1902
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book featuring compositions composed by Holway Atkinson. Some song titles include "Dear Gracious Hand", "The
Cover's Litany", "Summer and Winter", "The Inn of the Silver Moon" and more. Item was published in Chicago by Frank K. Root
& Co. Attatched to the book are two extra songs for the piano, "Memories" and "With a Flower", that were composed by Frank
K. Atkinson Jr. and had been published by E.T Root & Sons in Chicago. There's also a hand-written composition by an unnamed
composer titled "Andante con Expressione".
Box 1, Folder 8-9
[The Misses Dorothy, Rosalind and Cynthia Fuller materials]
1908, 1915
Scope and Contents
Materials contain seven song books, a program for a recital of folk songs by the Misses Dorothy, Rosalind and Cynthia Fuller
in Dorset, England on June 12, 1913 and a Christmas card from Dorothy, Rosalind, Cynthia and Walter Fuller in 1913. The song
books have only vocal parts and comes with compositions collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp copyrighted in 1908 by Novello
and Company Limited as well as two or four extra folk song compositions - "Mowing the Barley", "The Wraggle-Taggle Gypsies,
O!", "My Man John" and "O No, John!" - by an unnamed composer copyrighted in 1915 by The H.W. Gray Co.
Box 1, Folder 10
[Images]
1908, undated
Scope and Contents
File contains three black and white images: "English May Pole Dance" from 1909, "The 'Horo' Remains the Bulgarian National
Dance", which is undated, and an untitled and undated printed image, which features three men and one woman dancing in a field.
Box 1, Folder 11
Cecil Sharp songs
1908, 1909
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book which contains two music books, "Folks Songs of England" 1908 and "Folk Songs (Various)" 1909, both collected
and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and copyrighted by Novello and Company, Limited.
Box 1, Folder 12
Music and Notation
1909-1912
Scope and Contents
Folder contains ten separate pieces of sheet music for Music and Notation: "The Butterfly", "Newcastle", "Mage on a Cree",
"Hey, boys, up we go", "The Old Mole", "The Merry Conceit", "Confess", "If All the World Were Paper", "Sweet Kate" and "Row
well, ye Mariners". All were collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and had been copyrighted in London by Novello & Company,
Limited.
Box 1, Folder 13
The Pseudo-Suffragettes
1910
Scope and Contents
Item is a souvenir score for the college comic opera, "The Pseudo-Suffragettes", which had been produced by The Blackfriars
of the University of Chicago. Most of the pages had been torn out but the item also contains newspaper clippings, autographs
and photographs from some of the members of the cast and crew as well as the program for the opera which mentions Hinman as
the choreographer for the special dances.
Box 1, Folder 14
Country Dance Tunes, Set III
1911
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book for piano forte with pieces composed and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp and copyrighted in London by Novello
& Co., Ltd.
Box 1, Folder 15
The Pursuit of Portia
1912
Scope and Contents
Item is a souvenir score for the college comic opera, "The Pursuit of Portia", which had been produced by The Blackfriars
of the Univeristy of Chicago. Item also includes newspaper clippings, telegrams, autographs from some of the members of the
cast and crew and the program for the opera which lists Hinman as the choreographer for the special dances.
Box 2, Folder 1
Shakespeare Tercentennial Celebration programs
1916 February 25
Scope and Contents
Folder contains two copies of the program for the Shakspere Tercentennial Celebration by the Department of English Language
and Literature at the University of Chicago. The celebration illustrated the different types of drama before Shakspere, such
as songs, plays and jigs. Item also briefly mentions "The Wooing of Nan".
Box 2, Folder 2
"The Wooing of Nan" materials
1916-1917
Scope and Contents
Folder contains materials related to "The Wooing of Nan", which was presented by the University of Chicago's Department of
the English Language and Literature. Items include a program featuring the play for the Chicago Women's Club Art and Literature
Department, two photos of the cast in which one of them had been cut out from an unknown reading material, two newspaper clippings,
two programs titled "Four Early Plays" in which "The Wooing of Nan" is listed as one of the featured plays, three copies of
the rough drafts of the script in which two of them are typed and one of them is handwritten by an unnamed writer and handwritten
sheet music written by an unnamed composer. Hinman took part in producing the play.
Box 2, Folder 3
The Will Rossiter Original Dance Calls
1926
Scope and Contents
Item is a piano music book which contains songs for square dances and was published by The Chicago Publisher in Chicago, Illinos.
Box 2, Folder 4
"The Dance of the May" article
1927
Scope and Contents
Item is an article written by Hinman for the Pictorial Review Company magazine which features the history of May-pole dancing
as well as instructions on how it is danced.
Box 2, Folder 5
A Group of Danish Folk Songs and Singing Games
undated
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book which features twenty-two English folk dancing songs with instructions on how to do the dance accompanied
with each song. Music was arranged by Helene Fish with directions written by Dorothy S. Ainsworth, Frances C. McInnes and
Amy Lindner.
Box 2, Folder 6
A Collection of Popular Dances for the Piano-Forte, Violin, &c.
undated
Scope and Contents
Item is a music book which had been printed and sold by William Boag in London.
Box 2, Folder 7
Lyrics
undated
Scope and Contents
Folder contains four typed rough drafts of lyrics titled "My Man John", "The Keeper", "O No John" and "As I Walked Through
the Meadows". All were written by an unnamed writer.
Box 2, Folder 8
Marion I. Colby letter
undated
Scope and Contents
Item is a handwritten thank-you letter by a Marion I. Colby written in an unknown year on August 18th.
Box 2, Folder 9
Monuments of Washington's Patriotism
1841
Physical Description: Item shows visible signs of water damage.
Scope and Contents
Item is a facsimile of George Washington's public accounts kept during the Revolutionary War which had been published by the
Trustees of Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum. Item had also been printed by an M. Ludwig in New York
and had also been formerly owned by an S.S Smith from Cincinnati, Ohio in which he signed it on October 4th, 1842.
Box 2, Folder 10
Abraham Lincoln memorabilia
1872, 1910, undated
Scope and Contents
Folder contains three items: a page torn out of a May 29th, 1910 issue of an unknown reading material printed in Chicago,
Illinois titled "Address of Abraham Lincoln at the Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery, the 19th of November, 1863", a small
poster which features a photograph of Abraham Lincoln and a short quote from his Second Inaugural Address and a book titled
"Lincoln's Autobiography" which is a facsimile featuring Lincoln's early history that had been published by a Jesse W. Fell
in Normal, Illinois around the year 1872.
Box 2, Folder 11
Pamphlets
1888-1889
Scope and Contents
Folder contains two pamphlets titled "The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence", which had
been published on March 10th, 1888, and "Farewell Address and Other Papers by Geo. Washington" which had been published on
January 19th, 1889. Both items were also published by John B. Alden.
Box 2, Folder 12
Newspaper clippings
1894 February 12, undated
Scope and Contents
Folder contains three newspaper clippings: "Birth, Age and Death of Each Individual Signer to the Declaration of Independence"
which had been written by an unnamed journalist, in an unknown year and for an unknown newspaper, "His Text the Nation" which
had been written by an unnamed journalist, in an unknown year and for an unknown newspaper and "Lincoln as a Model" which
had been written by an unknown journalist in a February 12th, 1894 edition of The Daily Inter Ocean newspaper published in
Chicago, Illinois.
Box 2, Folder 13
Declaration of Independence copy
undated
Scope and Contents
Item is a copy of the Declaration of Independence which was from The Chicago News Record newspaper as a gift to its readers.