Jazz -- New Jersey -- Newark
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Al Henderson Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MG Henderson, Al-(Offsite)
Scope and Contents
The major portion of the Henderson photograph collection consists of 24 large boxes containing more 20,000 negatives. Negatives and proof prints are filed in individual envelopes, each representing a commercial job. The envelopes are labeled with the order number, the customer's name and address, and the date of the sitting. Envelopes typically contain several negatives, with proof-prints. The subjects are mostly individual studio portraits, but some events (especially weddings) are also...
Dates:
1930s-1987
Barbara J. Kukla Papers
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Kukla
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the collected papers of Barbara J. Kukla, who has worked in Newark for over fifty years as an author and reporter. These materials were collected by Barbara, both through her work and for personal interest. Some of the significant topics represented in these files are: music, theater, poetry, fine arts, books, African-American heritage and history, African-American life, women’s issues, women’s history, public schools, charter schools, universities, colleges,...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970 - 2012; 1901 - 2018
Newark Jazz Festival Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Jazz-(Fileroom)
Scope and Contents
The collection includes brochures and ephemera, meeting minutes, clippings, accounts, photographs, audiovisual material, artist publicity sheets, and notes related to the Newark Jazz Festival from 1991, when it was called the Sarah Vaughan Jazz Festival, to 1996. There are also additional materials related to the jazz scene in the Newark area.
The collection includes three subject folders in addition to folders for each year of the festival.
Box #1: Newark Jazz Festival.
1. General Newark...
Dates:
1991 - 1996
Newark Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MG Nwk Music-(Main)
Scope and Contents
Box #1: Programs (1850-1900, 1900-1940, 1940- ), Cathedral Concert Series (Vierne Festival Concert, 1976 series), Morris Choral Society (concert, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart), John Weaver and Marianne Weaver (Feb. 1978), Pierre Cochreau concert (Sacred Heart Cathedral, April 2, 1978), Sacred Heart Cathedral (worship & programs of music, 1978-79), The Winchester Cathedral Choir (Sacred Heart Cathedral, Mar. 5, 1979), Michelob Jazz Series (1980, 1981), Ravi Shankar, Sitar (Cathedral...
Dates:
1850 - 2000
Tiny Prince Collection
Collection
Identifier: MG Nwk Prince
Abstract
This collection consists of the personal records of publisher, writer, promoter, talent scout and Newark city employee Carl Brinson, known as “Tiny Prince”.
Dates:
1939 - 20111