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Frederick R. Selch Collection

Inventory

Series 1: Personal and Research Files

This series includes:

  • biographical materials (calendars and address books)
  • correspondence
  • publications and presentations (articles, monographs, dissertation files, project plans, exhibit files, and Ovation magazine files)
  • musical productions (concert programs, “Play Me a Country Song” files, Federal Music Society records, and audio)
  • research files (on topics including instruments, genres, places, and courses taken at New York University)
  • Frederick R. Selch Corporation records

Series 2: Visual Materials

This series includes 763 items:

  • drawings (ink, watercolor, gouache, mixed media)
  • prints (engravings, etchings, lithographs, aquatints, mezzotints, photogravures)
  • photographs (tintypes, cartes-de-visite)
  • fabric arts (embroidery, textile with watercolor, toile, matelassé)
  • information artifacts (broadsides, playbills, advertisements, trade cards)

These are described in an inventory (PDF, 91 pages).

You can also explore a curated digital collection of 277 items.


Series 3: Books

You can discover 335 books in search.Libraries.

Additionally, 500 books to be cataloged are listed in an inventory (PDF, 61 pages).


Series 4: Scores

You can discover 158 scores in search.Libraries.