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{"value"=>"1911 - 1967", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1911/1967"}
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1911
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1967
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{"value"=>"Series II: Subject files, -"}
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{"value"=>"8.5 boxes", "format"=>"simple"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series holds the portion of Howe’s papers that she organized by topic. It consists of personal and professional correspondence, clippings, business papers, promotional material, concert programs and ephemera. The largest portions of the series document the National Symphony Orchestra and its music director, Hans Kindler, mostly in the 1940s. Howe and her husband were highly active in the NSO; they were among its co-founders in 1931 and this series contains significant documentation of the orchestra’s history and of Kindler in particular, including the events leading to his resignation in 1948.</p> <p>Howe’s creative career is documented by a set of correspondence and papers documenting her performances with her piano duo partner Anne Hull, as well as by correspondence and papers relating to the two artist colonies she was associated with, the Huntington Hartford Foundation and the MacDowell Colony.</p> <p>Other topics documented in this series are the National Federation of Music Clubs, in which Howe was highly active; the Friends of Music of the Library of Congress, which she took part in establishing; and the career of the conductor William Strickland, a friend of Howe’s who conducted and introduced her music in Europe. The series also contains a set of meeting minutes, press releases and preliminary plans for the National Cultural Center (which eventually became the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical</p>"}
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{"type"=>"local_mss", "value"=>"824390"}
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1911
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1967
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1911