Fredric Woodbridge Wilson

Personal Collections

Gilbert and Sullivan

(The Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, and the lives and works of W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Richard D'Oyly Carte, and their contemporaries)

Photographs
Prompt books
Music manuscripts
Printed sheet music
Printed musical scores
Printed plays and libretti
Printed works in periodicals
Letters and documents
Programs and advertisements
Posters and playbills
Books, monographs, pamphlets, and magazines
Reviews and cuttings
Printed ephemera
Recordings
Microfilms and photocopies of original documents in institutional collections

Victorian Music

(Manuscripts, sheet music, and documents concerning nineteenth-century music)

Illustrated sheet music
Minstrel and negro songs
Civil War era songs
Comic opera and musical comedy
Ragtime and popular music
Music hall songs
Music manuscripts (ca. 150 items)
Printed scores
Inscribed copies and album leaves (ca. 200 items)
Robert Lucas de Pearsall (collection of letters and printed editions)
Victorian composers

Victorian Theatre and Popular Entertainment

Contemporary theatre literature
Biographies and memoirs
Programs and heralds
Posters and playbills
Plays and libretti
Victorian Popular Entertainment

(Manuscripts, printed documents, and sheet music concerning nineteenth-century theatre and various forms of popular entertainment.)

Music Hall, Variety, Burlesque, and Revue
Circuses, Fairgrounds, Resorts, and Fireworks
Pantomime, Extravaganza, and Clowns
Magic, Conjuring, and Spiritualism
Museums, Exhibitions, and Lectures
Sideshows, Menageries, and Zoos
Minstrel Shows

Pastimes and Amusements, Manners and Courtesy, Guides to Writing and Speaking, Travel

Early Music

(Early editions of books on music theory and practice, mostly British, seventeenth century)

Thomas Morley
Christopher Simpson
Henry Playford
Metrical Psalters
Early British Music Theorists
Early American Music Theorists
Microfilms and Facsimiles

Choral Music

(Choral sheet music, scores, and documents)

Early editions of significant choral works
Contemporary choral works
Early choral music in modern editions, facsimiles, and microfilm
Historic books on choral, voice, and conducting technique
Historic books on choir organization
College a cappella style arrangements
Standard choral literature

 

Selected Composers

(Early editions, manuscripts, letters, photographs, programs, and memorabilia)

Benjamin Britten
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Randall Thompson
Arthur Sullivan
Robert Lucas de Pearsall

Musical Theater

Vocal Scores
Song Folios
Sheet Music
Libretti
Programs
Souvenir Programs
Production Photographs
Recordings

Illustrated Sheet Music (Topical)

Opera
Operetta and Musical Comedy
Minstrel Songs
Music Hall Songs
Ships and Transportation
Showgirls and Beauties
Civil War
Sports and Entertainments
Product Advertisements
Universities and Colleges
Fraternal
Bridges and Buildings
Resorts and Seaside Scenes
Shells, Flowers, Plants, Animals
Royalty and Nobility
Political and Election Campaigns
Geographical
Famous Songs

Sheet Music (Composers)

Cole Porter
Richard Rodgers
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern
John Philip Sousa

New Jersey Memorabilia

(Maps, postcards, ephemera, and literature about the history of the New Jersey shore)

Ocean Grove
Asbury Park
Spring Lake
Manasquan
Sea Girt
Point Pleasant
Long Branch
Beaches and Seaside Scenes
Amusements and Amusement Parks
Rivers, Lakes, and Bridges
Buildings and Landmarks
Local Businesses, Schools, and Churches
Local Scenes

Harvardiana and Cambridgiana

Hasty Pudding Club
Harvard Theatricals
Radcliffe Theatricals
Fraternity and House Theatricals
Poet's Theatre
Harvard Composers
Randall Thompson

Victorian photographs

(Cabinet, carte-de-visite, and panel photographs of nineteenth-century personages)

Musicians and Composers
Actors and Singers
Statesmen
Royalty and Nobility
Academics, Clergy, and Scientists
Dramatists and Writers
Photographers' Samples

Printing and Private Presses

Grabhorn Press, San Francisco
Merrymount Press
W. A. Dwiggins
Club of Odd Volumes, Boston
Society of Printers, Boston
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Printers' Samples and Keepsakes
Books on Printing

Commercial Souvenir Photography

View-Master Reels
Stereo Photographs
Postcards

This document was updated on October 29, 2004.
Contents copyright by F. W. Wilson.
The address of this document is http://arcadia.org/collections/index.html.