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RG1.B4.F12 - Report
This folder contains information on the march of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War in the Philadelphia and Chester County areas. It includes Yellow Springs. Bibliographies, naratives and maps are included.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F27 - Excerpts
Selected photocopies are from "Letters Descriptive of The Virginia Springs - the Roads Leading Thereto; and the Doings Thereat - 1834-1836. These letters describe life at the spa and describe the bathing outfit, amusements such as the ten-pin alley, walks, horses, the coaches to transport, the diseases the waters "cured". The buildings are pictured in detail with ballrooms, springhouses and lodging facilities. The food was delicious, music ex...
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F32 - Biography
This is a photocopy of the script for the Jenny Lind character written for a walking tour of the Yellow Springs Spa. She details her American tour 1850-52 for P.T. Barnum and her visit to the spa at Yellow Springs. Also included is a piece about music of the 1850's showing the 19580 Chickering Square Piano used by Miss Lind on this tour.
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RG2.B2.F40 - Newspaper clippings
These two articles on Jenny Lind highlight her life 1820-1887. It gives a dscription of her early life, her musical accomplishments and her American tour with P.T. Barnum. Barnum advertised and promoted Lind with much hype. It is stated that Lind's career was the prototype of superstars today. It definitely had an influence on current music and its marketability. The story of pianist David Helfgott is illustrative of this promotion. Miss Li...
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RG2.B4.F2 - Music, sheet
This is a photocopy of "The Bird Song' written by M. Taubert for Jenny Lind. It was presented to Historic Yellow Springs in memory of Ann Hallowell Irwin (Mrs. Boyle, II 1850-1913) who owned this copy. Irwin was a skilled musician who entertained at Civil War hospitals and for her family. A small gold plaque engraved with information on Mrs. Boyle is included. Jenny Lind is believed to have visited the Yellow Springs Spa on her American tour.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B4.F3 - Music, sheet
This is an original music sheet for "Jenny Lind's Greeting to America". Jenny Lind is believed to have visited the Yellow Springs Spa on her American tour.
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RG2.B4.F4 - Music, sheet
This is an original music sheet of Jenny Lind's Bird Song. It is damaged having been cut and taped and has crayon marks on the colored cover piece. The song was written by M. Taubert especially for Ms. Lind. Jenny Lind is believed to have visited the Yellow Spring Spa on her American tour.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B4.F5 - Music, sheet
This is an original piece of sheet music for the Songs of Jenny Lind. It is the Song of the Drum by Donizetti for his opera La Figilia Del Reggimento. The cover sheet is a brightly colored lithograph of Jenny Lind in costome for the opera. The embossed stamp tells us that the music came from the Embree's Book, Stationery and Music Store at 134 Bowery, New York. Jenny Lind is believed to have visited the Yellow Springs Spa on her American Tour...
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RG2.B4.F6 - Music, sheet
This is photocopy of the sheet music Greeting to America written by Bayard Taylor of Kennett Square for Jenny Lind when she came to America for her tour and visited the Yellow Springs Spa. It was given to Historic Yellow Springs by Evelyn Swensson who impersonates Jenny Lind and has done so at Yellow Springs.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B4.F7 - Music, sheet
This folder contains photocopies of five different pieces of music sung by Jenny Lind on her American tour. They include: Schottisch by Allen Dodworth; cover of the farewell songs; Take This Lute by Jules Benedict; Farewell my Fatherland by Felix Cantier; and a cover photo for Jenny Lind's Serenade.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B4.F8 - Magazine
This folder contains an original December 1913 Presser's Musical Magazine THE ETUDE featuring Jenny Lind. Also has an additional photocopy of the cover and the article in the magazine telling of Lind's American tour.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B11.F5 - Document
A document from the Court of Common Pleas, Chester County incorporates the Keystone Cornet Band of West Pikealnd Township on February 2, 1881. Included are copies of the CCHS clippings re newspaper notices about the band. The band performed at picnics and fairs in Chester Springs and the county.
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RG3.B16.F28 - Genealogy
This information identifies that Oliver Shingle was a singing teacher at the Chester Springs Soldiers' Orphan School. Included is additional information on the Shingle that does not pertain to Historic Yellow Springs and the orphan school.
Record Type: Archive
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RG3.B8.F13 - Program
Included is a photocopy of a Souvenir Program from the Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan School for its 10thannual commencement June 14 and 15, 1900. It is black and white. Also is a photocopy of "Our S.O.S. Song" - words only.
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B10.F23 - Oral History Interview
Joseph T. Fraser was the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Country School at Chester Springs in the 1930's. In an interview he describes te gardens created by English gardner Stedman for the artists to paint. The goal of the school is included in an excerpt from the 1925 Summer Bulletin. The winter landscape school is also described with an excerpt from the American Federation of Arts publication. Roswell Weidner, a studen...
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RG4.B10.F38 - Pamphlet
This folder contains two pamphlets re Painters' Farm in Chester Springs, PA. One pamphlet gives directions to the farm amd a description of the activities there. There is a handwritten note with no signature. It could be that of D. Roy Miller the director The other pamphlet is for an exhibition of art at the Tricker Galleries in New York City presented by Painters' Farm. It lists the works of art as well as the artists.
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