A.K. DeLemos and Company Store

Scope and Contents The five scrapbooks, compiled by Henry F. Mutschler, contain newspaper clippings (including many obituaries), flyers, programs, correspondence, and articles relating to A. K. DeLemos and Co. and to musical news and events in Newark and New York; also included are notes and published articles by and about Mutschler. The contents are arranged roughly chronologically within the volumes, but there is considerable overlap in dates between volumes. The contents are as follows: Vol. 1...

Scope and Contents This typescript history, compiled by Henry Mutschler during his retirement, is filled with detailed accounts of the music teachers of Newark and surrounding towns, of music festivals, music clubs and societies, virtuoso performances, music promoters like Joseph Fuerstman, music in the schools, Works Progress Administration (WPA) music programs, theaters and vaudeville houses, and of the craze for movie theaters, with their hard-working piano accompanists. It includes photographs of the...