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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials documenting the life of Harold Melvin Triggs. The correspondence is primarily personal and from other musicians. There are concert prograpms from various points in Trigg's career and photographs primarily of Triggs and Vera Brodsky. There are manuscript and printed scores mainly of piano music but of some orchestral music as well. There is also a scrap book made by Triggs as a small child
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harold Triggs papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of the Estate of Thomas Franklin Waters, 1990.
Source of acquisition--Waters, Thomas Franklin (the estate of). Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--02/28/90. Accession number--M-90-02-28.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed JHR 05/14/90.
June 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH
Harold Melvin Triggs (1900-1984), composer and pianist.
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