- unitid
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{"value"=>"25654", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 848", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b19591581", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1949-1956", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1949/1956"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Muriel Rahn papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.71 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Best known for her performance in the title role of the original 1943-1944 Broadway production of <span class=\"title\">Carmen Jones</span>, Muriel Rahn (1911-1961) developed a reputation as a performer who was equally talented as a singer and an actress. The Muriel Rahn papers contain materials related to her performing career."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Rahn, Muriel", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Best known for her performance in the title role of the original 1943-1944 Broadway production of <span class=\"title\">Carmen Jones</span>, Muriel Rahn (1911-1961) developed a reputation as a performer who was equally talented as a singer and an actress. This African American soprano was highly acclaimed for her concerts and performances in many Broadway and off-Broadway shows. In the 1940s, she launched her career in opera, appearing in several productions in New York and in Europe during the 1950s.</p> <p>Rahn's last Broadway appearance was as Cora Lewis in <span class=\"title\">The Barrier</span> (1950), an American opera based on Langston Hughes's play, <span class=\"title\">The Mulatto</span>, which focused on race relations in the \"New South.\" In 1932, she married Dick Campbell, who later became her manager and started Dick Campbell Concerts, Inc., a concert management company serving primarily Black artists.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Muriel Rahn papers contain a scrapbook (1949-1950) covering Rahn's leading role in the opera <span class=\"title\">The Barrier</span>; it consists of news clippings, reviews, letters, and telegrams (some from Langston Hughes), programs, and photographs of a touring production. There are also contracts and letters for the 1953 national touring production of <span class=\"title\">Carmen Jones</span>.</p> <p>A concert singer, Rahn frequently performed recitals of African American, classical, and popular music. The collection contains many pieces of manuscript music, copyist sheets, and music sheets. These include poems authored by Langston Hughes, set to music or arranged by a number of composers, including Hall Johnson, F. Norman, and William Grant Still, many with handwritten dedications to Rahn from Hughes. There are also music scores and sheet music by other authors, some annotated.</p> <p>Dick Campbell Concerts, Inc., a management company owned by Rahn's husband, is represented by a brochure and promotional flyers portraying images of the artists and press information about them; and sheet music performed by the One World Ensemble, a quartet of vocalists Campbell organized representing four racial and ethnic backgrounds designed to show democratic principles at work. There are also letters regarding the dissolution of the company in 1956.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Dick Campbell, 2010.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Janice Quinter, December 2011.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2020 December 1"}
- date_start
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1949
- keydate
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1949
- date_end
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1956
- date_inclusive_start
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1949
- date_inclusive_end
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1956
- extent_statement
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0.71 linear feet (3 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Muriel Rahn papers, Sc MG 848, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}