Zelzer, Harry, 1897-1979
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1897 - 1979
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Allied Arts records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract
Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues...
Dates:
1913-1997
Elaine Madlener papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Madlener
Abstract
Research material for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Material related to Madlener’s Grant Hospital committee work for two benefit performances by Karajan in 1955 and 1965, and manuscripts by British author Charles Langbridge Morgan.
Dates:
1916-1966; Majority of material found within 1944-1965
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- Arts -- Management -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Authors -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
- Authors, English -- 20th century 1
- Autographs -- Collections 1
- Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ballet companies -- Photographs 1
- Benefit performances -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Conductors (Music) -- Biography 1
- Oldsmobile automobile -- Photographs 1
- Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Opera companies -- Photographs 1
- Programs 1
- Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 1
- Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
- Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1 + ∧ less
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