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Nelle Richmond Eberhart papers

Title: Nelle Richmond Eberhart papers, 1894-1943.
Author: Eberhart, Nelle Richmond.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 1	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 4	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 5	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 6	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 6	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 7	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 04-31 Box 7	Offsite

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Description

2 linear ft. (7 boxes)

Summary

The papers of Nelle Richmond Eberhart include manuscripts and notebooks of her lyrics and libretti as well as published scores by Charles Wakefield Cadman and other contemporaries of her day.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Scores.
Librettos.
Watercolors.
Set design drawings.

Source (note)

Eberhard, Constance.

Biography (note)

Nelle Richmond Eberhart was a poet, writer, teacher and lyricist.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

JPB 04-31

OCLC

NYPT04-A13

Author

Eberhart, Nelle Richmond.

Title

Nelle Richmond Eberhart papers, 1894-1943.

Biography

Nelle Richmond Eberhart was a poet, writer, teacher and lyricist. Born in Nebraska in 1871, she was best known for her work with Charles Wakefield Cadman, she is credited with introducing him to the music and culture of Native Americans. They collaborated on both songs and opera including Shanewis, which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera from 1917-1919. She also wrote the words for the opera The willow tree, the first opera commissioned for radio. Eberhart died in 1944.

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Occupation

Women librettists.

Women lyricists.

Added Author

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946.

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946. Land of misty water.

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946. Witch of Salem.

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946. Shanewis.

Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958.

Sinding, Christian, 1856-1941. Symphonies, no. 1, op. 21, D minor.

Research Call Number

JPB 04-31

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