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Series I: Manuscript Material, 1890s-1960s

Emily Gresser Papers, 1880s-2004, bulk 1910-1919

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Series I: Manuscript Material, 1890s-1960s


Box 1 Folder 1 David Liebowitz, 1921 - 1960

Correspondence with and letters of recommendation for David Liebowitz, 2 posters announcing "the Canvas Sky" by David Liebowitz, four photos from 1960.

Box 1 Folder 2 Emily Gresser, 1918

Article on Liebowitz Publix Shirt Co., 2 Schirmer bills, thank you note.

Box 1 Folder 3 Performance Programs, 1916-1919

Arion Erstes Konzert; Friday Musicales - Hotel Statler, Cleveland: Brooklyn Academy of Music; Mme. Guilbert, Massey Hall; Stadium Symphony Orchestra CUNY; Philadelphia Philharmonic Review; University of Southern California; Carnegie Hall; Mendelssohn Hall; Steinway Hall.

Box 1 Folder 4 Photographs, 1890s-1960s

Photographs of Emily Gresser and David Liebowitz. B/W negative of stage production (Freud in Guilbert's act).


Box 4 Folder 1 Photographs, circa 1900-1910

Photographs inscribed to Emily Gresser from M. Schiller and R. W. Daly


Box 1 Folder 5 Creole Violin 1

Hand notated sheet music

Box 1 Folder 6 Emily Gresser "Young Years" (scrapbook), 1910-1915

Blue (international press clippings, mostly in German from 1910s)


Box 4 Folder 2 Emily Gresser: The American Violinist (scrapbook), 1915

Box 4 Folder 3 Touring USA with Yvette Guilbert and Gustav Ferrari (scrapbook), 1916

Box 4 Folder 4 Touring America with Yvette and on her own (scrapbook), 1917

Box 4 Folder 5 Carrying On (scrapbook), 1918-1919

Box 4 Folder 6 Songs (scrapbook), 1922

Miscellaneous and final performance prorgram


Box 1 Folder 7 Guilbert, Yvette, "Quitor", 1912

Manuscript of play

Series II: Printed Material, 1902-2004

Subseries II.1: Books by and about Yvonne Guilbert, 1902-1964

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "L'Art de Chanter une Chanson", 1928

2 books

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "La Chanson de Ma Vie (mes mémoires)", 1927

4 books. Includes one copy of English translation "The Song of My Life"

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "Les Demi-Vielles", 1902

2 books

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "How to Sing a Song", 1918

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "La Vedette", 1902

2 books

Box 1 Guilbert, Yvette, "La Passante Émerveillée (mes voyages)", 1929

Box 1 Knapp, Bettina and Myra Chipman, "That was Yvette: the Biography of the Great Disseuse", 1964

Box 1 Laffont, Robert, "Autre Temps, Autre Chants" (avec une préface du Dussane), 1945

Subseries II.2: Books by and about Liebowitz/Gresser Family, 1946-2004

Box 1 Gresser, Fania Pallant "Memoirs of Fania Pallant Gresser", 2004

Box 1 Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, "The Lewis Mumford/David Liebowitz Letters", 1983

Box 1 Liebowitz, David, "The Canvas Sky", 1946

Box 1 Liebowitz, David, "Yeah, I'm Jonesy"

Subseries II.3: Other, 1902-1938


Box 2 Folder 1 "Arithmétique Illustrée" Bibliothéque Enfantine Series C, 1930s

Box 2 Colette, "L'Envers du Music Hall"

Box 2 Franko, Sam, "Chords and Dischords", 1938

Box 2 Folder 2 "Les Filles de Ginette"

Box 2 Folder 3 "Les Idylles de Gessner: Orneées de Planches Gravées sur Bois" de P.E. Vibert, 1922, September 30

Box 2 "L'iIlustration Theatre 1902-1903", 1902-1903

Box 2 "L'Illustration Theatre 1919", 1932

Box 2 "L'Illustration Theatre 1920", 1920

Box 2 Folder 4 "Potpourri! Livre d'Images", 1930s

Box 2 Folder 5 "The Story of Wagner's Lohengrin", 1932

Box 2 Folder 6 Les Trois Mousquetaires d'Alexandre Dumas. Le Film d'Art, 1912

Box 2 Folder 7 "Zig et Puce Millionaires"

Series III: Music, 1880s-1950s

Please handle with care. Much of the music is fragile and in poor condition.

Primarily sheet music, with a small amount of manuscript material. Most of the items appear to have been used quite heavily, and are accordingly fragile.

Subseries III.1: Sam Franko, 1894-1944

Printed and manuscript music, by or associated with composer and violinist Sam Franko (1857-1937), who was Gresser's teacher and friend.

Box 2 Folder 9-10 Music, 1894-1944

"Cradle Song for the Piano"; ""Violin Transcriptions with Piano Accompaniment"; "Kenilworth" by Bruno Oscar Klein (inscribed to Franko)


Box 5 Folder 1 Music, 1899-1929

"Transcriptions for Violin and Piano"; Vivaldi "Concerto in G minor" (arrangements for organ, piano, and orchestra; and piano and orchestra); J. S. Bach "Arioso"; "16 Standard Works for the Violin" by Joseph Joachim; Mendelssohn "Song Without Words" (manuscript arrangement); Faure "Sonata for Piano and Violin"; "Werke alter Miester in neuer Bearbeitung fuer Violine mit Klavierbegleitung"

Subseries III.2: Yvette Guilbert, 1911-1927

Printd music by Yvette Guilbert.


Box 2 Folder 8-9 Music, 1911-1927

Chansons de tous les Temps; "Le Fiacre"; "10 Chansons de Paul de Kock"; "Pastourelles of the XV Century"; "Chanson et Cantilenes"; "Bergers et Musettes" (2 copies); "Chanteries du Moyen Age" (3 copies); "Dix Chansons du VXIII Siecle"

Subseries III.3: Other Music, 1880s-1950s

Much of the music was heavily used and is quite fragile. Please handle with care.

This subseries consists primarily of violin and piano music. Some of the violin parts are heavily marked, and many of the pieces have her name written on the cover. Most of the music is undated, but was printed in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Box 2 "Les Plus Jolies Chanson du Pays de France", 1888

Bound volume


Box 3 Folder 1 Music

Joseph Achron transcription of Mendelssohn Op.34.No.2 "On Wings of Song", "Hebrew Lullaby"; Leopold Auer "Concert Transcriptions" for Violin and Piano; F. v. Blon "Whispering Flowers"; Overtures pour piano à Deux Mains" by Cherubini; Elgar "Salut d'Amour"; Bouree and Gigue from Much ado about Nothing Pianoforte Solo by Edward German; Stephen Heller "Oeuvres Choisies pour Piano"; "Autumn Leaves" by Kosma/Mercer; Charles Lecocq's Miettes Musicales Vingt-Quatre Esquisses de Style pour le Piano; Mascitti, Michele "Prelude and Allegro" for Violin and Piano

Box 3 Folder 2 Music

Mendelssohn "Concerto for Violin"; Mozart "Concerto for Violin in A Major"; Mozart "Concerto in D Major"

Box 3 Folder 3 Music

Mendelssohn "Song Without Words"

Box 3 Folder 4 Music

Lawrence "The Poor People fo Paris", Edith Piaf et les chanson de Henri Contet; Pinsuti "The Land Beyond"; "Chansons enfantines de notre pays"; Overtures for 2-handed piano (3 volumes); "Weitere Musil aus den Werken beruehmter Meister"


Box 5 Folder 2 Music

Bach, JS. Sonata in E Major; Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; Three Sonatas for Piano and Violin.

Box 5 Folder 3 Music

Becker, Mazurka; Beethoven, 11 trios; Bohm, Lizzie; Brahms, Quartet (violin 1 part, heavily marked); Chopin, Second Concert for Piano; DeBussy, Quartet for 1 Violins, Viola, Cello; Dvorak, Quartet in F Major; Duhamel, La Mie Du Soldat; Emer, L'Accordeoniste

Box 5 Folder 4 Music

German, Harvest Dance; Godard, La Vivandiere; Godard, Scene du Bal Jocelyn; Godard, Au matin; Gouvy, Schwedischer Tanz; Haynes, Westwood Gavotte; Lanner, Ungarischer Nationaltanz; Mendelssohn, Lorely; Mendelssohn, Song without words; Mozart, Menueet und Marcia alla Francese; Moszkowski, Der Schaefer putzte sich zum Tanz; Moszkowski, Sechs Stuecke; Moszkowski, Laurin; Paderewski, Selections; Pitt, Air De Ballet; Purcell; Saint-Saens, Gavotte; Saint-Saens, Recital Music

Box 5 Folder 5 Music

Scharwenka, Huldigungs Marsch; Schumann, Fantasiestuecke; Schytte, Forest Elves; Seiss, Intermezzo and Even Song; Staccati, Iris; Stiehl, Schneewittchen's Geburtstagfeier; Strauss, Wiegenlieder; Strauss, Taenze; Tschaikovsky, Marche Militaire; Tschaikovsky, Slavisher Marsch; Vivaldi, Concerto in a minor; Vogrich, Passepied; Vogrish, Album of ancient and modern dances; Wagner, Meistersanger; Wagner, Parsifal; Westerbout, Works for Pianoforte; various compilations.