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Otto Harbach Papers
- Title
- Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
- Author
- Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 30 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 30 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 29 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 29 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 28 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 28 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 27 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 27 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 26 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 26 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 25 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 25 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 24 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 24 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 23 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 23 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 22 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 22 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 21 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 21 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 20 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 20 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 19 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 18 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 17 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 16 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 15A | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 15A | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 14A | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 14A | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 14 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 13B | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1993-038 Box 13B | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Found In
- p1bc Otto Harbach papers, scores and sound recordings. (CStRLIN)NYPW94-A173.
- Description
- 12 lin. ft. (37 boxes and 1 oversized folder)
- Subjects
- Hammerstein, Arthur, -1955
- Composers
- Photographs
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945
- Musical theater > United States
- Lyricists
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949
- Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946
- Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963
- Scores
- Scripts
- Hoschna, Karl L., 1877-1911
- De Rose, Peter, 1900-1953
- Friml, Rudolf, 1879-1972
- Whitman College
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Oral histories
- Contracts
- Harbaugh family
- Theater > United States
- Poulton, Avern
- Poulton, Sadie
- Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.)
- Librettists
- Musicals > Librettos
- Harbach, William O
- Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951
- Hauerbach family
- Harbach, Ella
- Caesar, Irving, .1895-1996
- Genre/Form
- Contracts.
- Oral histories.
- Photographs.
- Scores.
- Scripts.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- William O. Harbach
- Biography (note)
- Otto Harbach, librettist and lyricist, was born Otto Hauerbach in Salt Lake City.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Otto Harbach Papers, Musical Scores and Sound Recordings.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Processed
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1993-038
- OCLC
- NYPW93-A258
- Author
- Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963.
- Title
- Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Summary
- The Otto Harbach Papers include correspondence, business papers, scripts, scores, lyrics, personal papers, photographs, and printed matter documenting his personal life and career, and also a particular period in the American musical theater, from ca. 1908-1938, when Harbach created most of his works. Correspondence is mainly between Harbach and his family in Salt Lake City, and later with his son William. Family members include his brothers, Arthur, James, Julius, and William Hauerbach, and his sister and brother-in-law, Sadie and Avern Poulton. Included in the small amount of correspondence from friends and colleagues are several interesting letters from Arthur Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, and Carl Sandburg. The collection is particularly strong in covering the business aspects of Harbach's work, documented with contracts, copyright, and royalty information. Scripts form the largest series and include copies of most of Harbach's works. The scores are mostly for HAYFOOT-STRAWFOOT (music by Jerome Kern) and COUNTER MELODY (music by Peter De Rose) and are notable for the holographs that make up part of the scores for HAYFOOT-STRAWFOOT. There is also a good collection of photographs, including family, colleagues, ASCAP events, friends, and a selection of production photos. Personal papers include genealogical information, writings other than scripts, ephemera and a long oral history interview conducted by William Harbach shortly before his father's death.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Otto Harbach Papers, Musical Scores and Sound Recordings.
- Biography
- Otto Harbach, librettist and lyricist, was born Otto Hauerbach in Salt Lake City. He was educated at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and went on to teach English at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Moving to New York in 1901, Harbach (who changed the spelling of his name in 1917) began writing for the theater. In 1908 he produced his first hit, THREE TWINS, in collaboration with Karl Hoschna. Over the course of his career, Harbach had over 50 works produced on Broadway; for most of them he wrote both the book and the lyrics. Among his collaborators were the composers Karl Hoschna, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, Louis Hirsch, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans and Sigmund Romberg, and the lyricists Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Caesar, Frank Mandel, and John Murray Anderson. Harbach's most well-known works include the songs Love Nest, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Indian Love Call, One Alone, Rose Marie, The Night Was Made For Love, and the plays THE FIREFLY, ROBERTA, ROSE MARIE, NO, NO, NANETTE, The DESERT SONG and THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE. Harbach was a charter member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). He was married to Ella Smith Dougall, with whom he had two sons, Robert and William.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Librettists.Lyricists.
- Found In:
- p1bc Otto Harbach papers, scores and sound recordings. (CStRLIN)NYPW94-A173.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1993-038