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Updated finding aid for the Jim Cullum Collection now available for research | October 11, 2022
Judy Yung papers open for research | May 26, 2022
Guest Blogger: Summer Intern Eli Waldman | September 20, 2021
Enhancing access to streaming archival media with transcripts and captions | July 30, 2021
Two San Francisco Bay Area Jazz Collections and an American League Baseball Team | June 9, 2021

Notable collections

  • The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

    Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.

    Monterey Jazz Festival logo

  • Jascha Heifetz Collection

    The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.

  • Yehudi Menuhin Collection

    The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.

    Yehudi Menuhin

  • Mario Ancona Collection

    The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.

    Mario Ancona

  • Ruth and Mario Chamlee Collection

    Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.

    Ruth and Mario Chamlee in Manon

  • Richard Crooks Collection

    Richard Crooks was a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

    Richard Crooks as Pinkerton

  • Theodore Fagan Collection

    This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.

    Ted Fagan

  • Kirsten Flagstad Collection

    Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.

    Kirsten Flagstad

  • Richard Finnie Collection

    Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.

    Richard Finnie and friends

  • Riverwalk Jazz Collection

    Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.

    Riverwalk Jazz logo

  • Jim Cullum Collection

    Tape recordings of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band covering over 30 years of the band's performances. The collection also contains performances by other noteworthy performers including Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett.

    l to r: Jim Cullum Sr., Willson Davis, Louis Armstrong, Harvey Kindervater, and Jim Cullum Jr., 1965.

  • Ambassador Auditorium Collection

    Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.

    Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA

  • KZSU Project South Interviews

    Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.

    KZSU Project South

  • Philip G. Zimbardo Papers

    Research and teaching files, professional files and correspondence, audiovisual materials, professional papers, and materials documenting the Stanford Prison Experiment.

    Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Stanford University Audio Collection

    Audio recordings of Stanford events and activities.

    Campus planning

  • William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection

    The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection principally consists of commercial and unpublished recordings of the world renowned British horn player, Dennis Brain (1921-1957).

    French Horn

  • Blanche Thebom Collection

    The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.

    Blanche Thebom as Laura, in La Gioconda

  • KSFO Collection

    The KSFO collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983.

    KSFO logo circa 1950-1965

  • James Schwabacher Collection

    The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.

    James Schwabacher

  • Richard Hadlock Annals of Jazz Collection

    Open reel tape recordings of the “Annals of Jazz” radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991.

    Richard Hadlock

  • Ken Ackerman Collection

    The Ken Ackerman Collection consists of broadcast recordings of live jazz performances from the 1950s and 60s, captured at various clubs in San Francisco, particularly Club Hangover.

    Earl Hines, New York, ca. Mar. 1947

  • Judith Rosen Collection

    The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings of performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, focusing on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and composers.

    Grażyna Bacewicz

  • Alan Farley Collection

    The Alan Farley Collection consists primarily of recordings made for the radio program Book Talk on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco, California.

    Alan Farley

  • Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville Collection

    The Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville consists of interviews conducted by Kazuko Nakane from 1978 to 1983 with fifteen Japanese-American residents in Watsonville, California.

    Front cover image from Nothing Left in my Hands by Kazuko Nakane

  • Gerhard Samuel Collection

    Papers and recordings from American conductor and composer Gerhard Samuel (1924-2008), particularly from his years conducting the Oakland Symphony, Minneapolis Symphony, and University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra.

    Gerhard Samuel

  • Jack Lund Collection

    The Jack Lund Collection contains personal papers of Jack Lund, an avid classical music collector, as well as numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and music books.

    Arturo Toscanini poses on a ship's deck

  • Richard Maxfield Collection

    The Richard Maxfield Collection consists of electronic music written by Maxfield on open reel tape from 1959 to 1964.

    Tape container for Wind (1961)

  • Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls

    Over his lifetime, Denis Condon (1933-2012) amassed a collection of over 7500 piano rolls and ten instruments. The collection contains rolls of important composers of the period, all playing their own works.

  • Larry Sitsky Piano Roll Catalog Collection

    This comprehensive rollography represents years of work documenting all known reproducing piano rolls of classical music ever issued.

    Sitsky piano roll catalogs
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