Lajos Szendi autograph album

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unitid

{"value"=>"JOB 06-7", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"20391", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Lajos Szendi autograph album"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"circa 1911-1932", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1911/1932"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 v"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"19 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1911

date_inclusive_end

1932

origination

{"value"=>"Szendi, Lajos", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Collector", "role_code"=>"col"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Lajos Szendi (or Szendy) may have been related to the Hungarian composer, pianist, and music teacher, Árpád Szendy. He collected numerous autographs of musicians and other notables working in, or passing through, Budapest, Hungary during the early twentieth century.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The Lajos Szendi autograph album contains primarily autograph signatures of musicians. Some of the autographs have been written directly onto the leaves of the album, while others have been pasted in from scraps of paper, visiting cards, and other items. The book also contains several loose photographic postcards, programs, handbills, and newspaper clippings, most of which are signed and have been inserted between the leaves. Identifiable among the signers are: the opera singer, Mme. Charles Cahier, violinist, Jascha Heifetz, conductor, Ferdinand Löwe, composers Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss, and American suffragist, Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition to the famous names represented, the album contains numerous autographs belonging to Hungarian musicians or other individuals not as well known outside of Hungary.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"JOB 06-7"}

{"source"=>"Szendy, Ilona", "method"=>"Gift", "date"=>"1975", "value"=>"Gift, Szendy, Ilona, 1975"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The Lajos Szendi autograph album contains primarily autograph signatures of musicians. Some of the autographs have been written directly onto the leaves of the album, while others have been pasted in from scraps of paper, visiting cards, and other items. The book also contains several loose photographic postcards, programs, handbills, and newspaper clippings, most of which are signed and have been inserted between the leaves. Identifiable among the signers are: the opera singer, Mme. Charles Cahier, violinist, Jascha Heifetz, conductor, Ferdinand Löwe, composers Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss, and American suffragist, Carrie Chapman Catt. In addition to the famous names represented, the album contains numerous autographs belonging to Hungarian musicians or other individuals not as well known outside of Hungary."}

langmaterial_code

hun

ger

keydate

1911

langmaterial

{"value"=>"Some signatures with inscriptions, as well as some signatures on printed items contain text in Hungarian and German"}

prefercite

{"value"=>"Lajos Szendi autograph album, Music Division, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

1 v, 19 cm; 1 v, 19 cm

date_start

1911

date_end

1932

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