- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 13-30", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"22481", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1899-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1899/1975"}
{"value"=>"1960-1975", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1960/1975"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1899
- date_inclusive_end
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1975
- keydate
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1899
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Richard Rodgers music papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3.54 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"MUS", "value"=>"Music Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) was an American composer and producer, well known for his collaborations with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. The Richard Rodgers music papers contain scrapbooks, published vocal scores, and drafts of his autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Musical Stages</span>."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Rodgers music papers, JPB 13-30. Music Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) was an American composer, well known for his collaborations with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers composed more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway and London musicals, including the shows <span class=\"title\">A Connecticut Yankee</span>, <span class=\"title\">Oklahoma!</span>, <span class=\"title\">South Pacific</span>, <span class=\"title\">The King and I</span>, and <span class=\"title\">The Sound of Music</span>, and was active on Broadway from 1920 through the 1970s. In 1975, he published his autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Musical Stages</span>.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The contents of the collection described herein were separated from the Richard Rodgers papers (*T-Mss 1987-006) and transferred from the Billy Rose Theatre Division. Oversize scrapbooks and sheet music transferred to the Music Division were processed as separate collections.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Richard Rodgers music papers date from 1899 to 1975 (bulk: 1960-1975) and contain scrapbooks, published vocal scores, and drafts of Rodgers's autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Musical Stages</span>. Scrapbooks in the collection document three events celebrating Rodgers's work between 1949 and 1967-the New Haven Pops Orchestra's Rodgers and Hammerstein Night, the Connecticut Symphony's Music Man of the Year program, and a birthday luncheon hosted by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. The scrapbooks are comprised of invitations, telegrams, photographs, clippings, press releases, and programs relating to the events, as well as autographs and inscriptions from attendees. Vocal scores in the collection primarily date from the late 19th and early 20th century, and include the work of composers Ivan Caryll, Arthur Sullivan, and Oscar Straus. Rodgers's own scores in the collection are limited to <span class=\"title\">The Rodgers and Hart Song Book</span>, the vocal score for <span class=\"title\">Pal Joey</span>, and a Japanese translation of <span class=\"title\">No Strings</span>.</p> <p>The collection holds three drafts of Rodgers's autobiography, along with a typed transcript of interviews with Rodgers conducted by theatre historian Stanley Green. Each draft has handwritten annotations and edits to the text. The earliest autobiography draft, dating from 1971 to 1972, is both hand and typewritten with corrections and additions; typed transcripts are available for all handwritten pages. Housed with the first draft is a collation with the published text, which lists several passages not included in the published version.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged by document type: Autobiography Drafts, Scores, and Scrapbooks.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Dorothy Rodgers, 1987.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Weatherly Stephan</span>, <span class=\"date\">2013</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Richard Rodgers collection of musicals and interviews. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\">Richard Rodgers collection. Music Division, Library of Congress.</span> <span class=\"archref\">Richard Rodgers papers. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\">Richard Rodgers scrapbooks. Music Division, The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"archref\">Richard Rodgers song selections. Music Division, The New York Public Library.</span>"}
- extent_statement
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3.54 linear feet (10 boxes)
- date_start
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1899
- date_end
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1975
- date_bulk_start
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1960
- date_bulk_end
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1975