WILLIAM GRANT STILL AND VERNA ARVEY PAPERS
INVENTORY
Material in the Oberlin College Archives (accession 1983/41)
Series 1. Material not from Scrapbooks
Box 1 Correspondence Holiday letters, 1970, 1973, 1975, n.d. Verna Arvey Biographical, program, publicity (3 items) Writings Writings about William Grant Still, ca. 1939, 1950, 1963, 1965-66, 1970- 71, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1983-84, n.d. Writings by William Grant Still, Verma Arvey and Judith Anne Still, 1949- 52, 1956, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, n.d. Reviews, 1932, 1949, 1962-63, 1967-68, 1973-76, 1981, 1983, n.d. Miscellaneous clippings, 1963, 1965, 1970-71, 1975, 1982-83, n.d. Oral History “Negro Serious Music,” oral history with William Grant Still by R. Donald Brown, California Black Oral History Project, California State University, Fullerton, 13 November and 4 December, 1967 Programs Performance programs & exhibitions, ca. 1933, 1939, 1954-59, 1962-67, 1970-71, 1980s (2f) Programs of performances at Oberlin, 1970, 1995 Publicity for “A Bayou Legend” (Opera), 1974, 1980 Music Wellington Adams, ed., Twelve Negro Spirituals by William Grant Still (New York: Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc., 1948 Music Catalogs and Book Announcements, ca. 1980s-90s Certificates, 1976 Photographs William Grant Still, n.d. Verna Arvey, n.d. William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, n.d. Photographic copies of photograph album pages (2) of the Still family, 1940s Color photocopy of photographs of Judith Still Headlee (?) and family, ca. 1970s-80s Duplicates of writings
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Material in the Oberlin College Archives (accession 1983/41)
Series 2. Copies of Scrapbooks (originals at the University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections) (materials are stored off-site)
Box 1. 1954-55, 1962
Box 2. 1950-56, 1964-69 Communism, 1950-51 Miscellaneous, 1952-56 Black militance, 1964-69
Box 3. 1925-26, 1968-72, n.d. Communism, 1968-72 Verna Arvey, 1925-26 Judith Still childhood, n.d.
Box 4. 1972-73
Box 5. 1949, 1959-61
Box 6. 1976, 1978-79
Box 7. 1965-66
Box 8. 1968-69, 1971
Box 9. 1974, 1977, 1980 Communism, 1951-52 Death of son, 1970
Box 10. 1952-54
Box 11. Verna Arvey Still, 1932-33, 1946
Box 12. 1970, 1974
Box 13. Verna Arvey Still, 1922, 1941-54
Box 14. 1974-75
Box 15. Communism, 1950, 1952-57
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Microfilm of Material at the University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections
Series 3. Microfilm of Manuscript Collection 1125
Volumes 85-101 are not microfilmed.
MICROFILM ROLLS
Reel #1 Vol. 1-10
Reel #2 Vol. 11-14
Reel #3 Vol. 15-17
Reel #4 Vol. 18-19
Reel #5 Vol. 20-23
Reel #6 Vol. 24-28
Reel #7 Vol. 29-33
Reel #8 Vol. 34-38
Reel #9 Vol. 39-42
Reel #10 Vol. 43-45
Reel #11 Vol. 46-50
Reel #12 Vol. 51-54
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MICROFILM ROLLS (cont.)
Reel #13 Vol. 55-65
Reel #14 Vol. 66-76
Reel #15 Vol. 77-84
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