Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1835 - 1905
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Frederic Grant Gleason papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract
Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates:
1852-1908
Louise St. John Westervelt Collection of Theatrical and Musical Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Westervelt
Abstract
Photographs, mainly cabinet photographs, of nineteenth-century musical and theatrical persons.
Dates:
1869-1930; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1891
Milward Adams photograph collection [OFFSITE]
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adams
Abstract
STORED OFFSITE – Contact reference@newberry.org for access. Collection of portraits of statesmen, orators, lecturers, musicians, singers, composers, and conductors collected by and autographed to Milward Adams, manager of Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1889 to 1910.
Dates:
approximately 1890-1910
Theodore Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thomas
Abstract
Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases.
Dates:
1852-1926
Filtered By
- Subject: Photographs -- 1851-1900 X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 3
- Actors -- Portraits 2
- Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 2
- Composers -- Portraits 2
- Musicians -- Portraits 2
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
- Singers -- Portraits 2
- Arts -- Press coverage 1
- Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century 1
- Composers -- History -- Sources 1
- Composers -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Composition (Music) 1
- Conductors (Music) -- History -- Sources 1
- Conductors (Music) -- Portraits 1
- Conservatories of music -- History -- 19th century 1
- Letterpress copybooks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, German 1
- Music critics -- 19th century 1
- Music teachers -- 19th century 1
- Musicians -- History -- Sources 1
- Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews 1
- Opera singers -- Portraits 1
- Printing plates -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
- Signatures (names) -- 1851-1900 1
- Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
- Singers -- History -- Sources 1
- Symphony orchestras -- History -- Sources 1
- Women singers -- Portraits 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1 + ∧ less
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