Research Catalog
Elliot Carpenter papers
- Title
- Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
- Author
- Carpenter, Elliot (1894-1982)
- Supplementary Content
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 599 Box 1 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 4 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 5 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 6 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 7 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 8 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 9 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 10 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 11 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 12 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 13 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 14 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Box 15 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 599 Box 15 | Offsite | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 16 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 8.7 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Elliot Carpenter Papers document his musical career and consists of personal and professional correspondence, handwritten music, programs, lyrics, scripts, and newsclippings.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Wilson, Dooley, 1894-1953
- Lyrics
- Boyd, Bill
- May, Ada, 1901?-1978
- Scrapbooks
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
- African American musicians
- African American entertainers
- Briggs, Everett Francis, 1908-
- Travnikoff, Basil
- Musical scores
- Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971
- African Americans > Music
- Scripts
- Carpenter, Elliot, 1894-1982
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American composers
- Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
- Genre/Form
- Musical scores.
- Scripts.
- Scrapbooks.
- Lyrics.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson
- Biography (note)
- Elliot James Carpenter was a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and song stylist with a career that spanned much of the twentieth century. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at the Temple School of Music in that city. In the 1920's he furthered his studies in France, where he also performed with the James Reese Europe Orchestra. A band he formed, known as the Red Devils, toured Europe under the management of the Clef Club Singers and Players.
- Provenance (note)
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Elliot Carpenter, and subsequently donated by her, along with other theater related collections, to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 599
- OCLC
- NYPW00-A141
- Author
- Carpenter, Elliot (1894-1982)
- Title
- Elliot Carpenter papers, 1922-1979.
- Biography
- Elliot James Carpenter was a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and song stylist with a career that spanned much of the twentieth century. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at the Temple School of Music in that city. In the 1920's he furthered his studies in France, where he also performed with the James Reese Europe Orchestra. A band he formed, known as the Red Devils, toured Europe under the management of the Clef Club Singers and Players.Carpenter's primary musical style was popular, but he also wrote and performed swing music. Although he wrote a substantial amount of original music, only a modest number of pieces were published. He was a prodigious arranger of music authored by both Black and white composers, and also wrote lyrics.Among Carpenter's accomplishments are his 1937 collaboration with Clarence Muse for the film "Spirit of Youth," his arrangement of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "The Mikado" into a swing piece called "Swing Mikado," 1939, and his performance of the sound track for "As Time Goes By" in the film "Casablanca" and as the playing hands of Sam, the character played by Dooley Wilson, 1942.A collaboration with Langston Hughes produced a song entitled "America's Young Black Joe," which was published. Some of the many collaborators with whom Carpenter worked are Karen Bank, Bill Boyd, Everett F. Briggs, Dove See, Frank Lowry, Flournoy Miller, and Kahl Ra-Faun.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to Helen Armstead-Johnson by Elliot Carpenter, and subsequently donated by her, along with other theater related collections, to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 599