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Series II: Performance Documentation, 1905-1964, undated
Series III: Images, circa 1870-1969
Series IV: Correspondence, 1900-1980, undated
Series V: Writings of H. Lawrence Freeman, 1921-1940s, undated
Series VI: Arts Organizations associated with the Freemans, 1920-1982, undated
Series VII: Audio and Video, 1971-1972, 2015, undated
Series VIII: Scrapbooks and Clippings, 1898-1954, undated
Series IX: Personal, circa 1898-1972, undated
Series X: Additions to the Collection

H. Lawrence Freeman papers, 1870-1982, 2015, bulk 1890-1954

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Series VII: Audio and Video, 1971-1972, 2015, undated

Series consists of two interviews with Valdo Freeman from the early 1970s, along with two lacquer disc copies of what is presumed to be Mr. H. Lawrence Freeman playing and/or Valdo's repeat of his father's performance. The titles for the lacquer discs below were taken from a separate container found in the AV series. There is also audio and video available for the performance of Voodoo at Miller Theatre in 2015.


Box 52 Folder 1 Valdo Freeman--Interview--American Music Series, 1971 December 28, 2 open reel audiotapes; 7-inch tapes. 3.75 ips, full track.

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Interviewed by Vivian Perlis.

Box 52 Folder 2 Interview with Mr. Valdo Freeman at the Negro Actors' Guild in New York City, 1972 January, 1 open reel audiotapes; Five-inch tape.

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On the tape is an interview with Mr. Valdo Freeman at the Negro Actors' Guild in New York City. The interviewer is Cassandra Willis of Jim Hatch's Black drama class at the City College of New York. Later on in the tape, Ida Fields (Mrs. Louis Jordan) enters the conversation. Date is likely January 1972.

Description on box:, which does not correspond with tape content: Originally recorded on a Sony dictaphone with cassette. Mr. H. Lawrence Freeman playing (from record); repeat of father's performance; Mr. Valdo L. Freeman.

Box 52 Folder 3 Presumed to be "Originally recorded on a Sony dictaphone with cassette. Mr. H. Lawrence Freeman playing (from record); repeat of father's performance; Mr. Valdo L. Freeman", undated, 1 phonograph records; 10-inch phono disc

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Title information from separate box label. This record was mis-labeled as "Clarissa Aria" from the opera Vendetta by H. Lawrence Freeman. Original format: disc, lacquer

Box 52 Folder 4 Presumed to be "Originally recorded on a Sony dictaphone with cassette. Mr. H. Lawrence Freeman playing (from record); repeat of father's performance; Mr. Valdo L. Freeman", 1 phonograph records; 10-inch phono disc

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Title information from separate box label. This recording was mis-labeled as "Amita Aria" from the opera Vendetta by H. Lawrence Freeman. Original format: disc, lacquer


Box 65 Voodoo, Performance at Miller Theatre, 2015 June 26-27, 2 compact disks

Box includes program.


Box 66 Voodoo, Performance at Miller Theatre, 2015 June 26-27, 2 DVDs

Files copied to level 1 preservation. Contact rbml@columbia.edu regarding access.