Music ethnography of the Bay Area

Archive of Recorded Sound

The San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation Collection

• collection currently being processed--contact the Archive for details

Ken Ackerman Collection (jazz)
Bob Arnold Collection (pop)
James Schwabacher Collection (opera)

Music Library / Department of Special Collections, Green Library

Women’s Philharmonic (Bay Area symphonic group)

• Scores, recordings, and video are in Music; business papers and correspondence are in Special Collections
• Materials in this collection are listed in SearchWorks.

Department of Special Collections, Green Library

Photographs (1974-2001) from Alejandro Stuart, Director of the Latin American Cultural Center in San Francisco
MSS 210--includes photos of local musicians;
MS 138 Large Map Folder 1-- may contain additional ephemera (programs, announcements, etc.)

Beyond Stanford

Online Archive of California

• a research gateway to unique and historical materials in archives, libraries, and museums throughout California.

San Francisco Public Library, Bernard Osher Foundation Center

• collects materials on artists, musicians, and other art professionals, primarily thos who have worked and/or lived in the Bay Area. 

WPA California Folk Music Project (at the Library of Congress)