Federal Music Project records, 1934-1943

Collection Information

Size: 34 Items, (on partial microfilm reel)

Summary: Official records containing project proposals; applications; final reports; and correspondence concerning the Pan-American Union.

Biographical/Historical Note

Federally funded music project of the Works Progress Administration. The Pan American Union worked with the Federal Music Project and developed projects like the music-copying project. The Philadelphia unit of the copying project reproduced scores of Latin-American compositions which were deposited in the Edwin A. Fleischer collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Provenance

The lender, Theodore A. Seder, is the curator of the Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection where many of the reproduced manuscripts are housed.

Language Note

English .

Location of Originals

• Originals returned to the lender, Theodore A. Seder, after microfilming.