Edna Talbott Whitley scrapbooks
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Edna Talbott Whitley scrapbooks
- Creator
- Whitley, Edna Talbott, 1891-
- Extent
- 0.45 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Ballet programs.
- Concert programs.
- Concerts--Kentucky.
- Music appreciation.
- Music--Kentucky--Lexington.
- Opera programs
- Performing arts--Outlines, syllabi, etc.
- Programs
- Theater--Kentucky--Lexington.
- Arrangement
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 62M102 : [Identification of item], Edna Talbott Whitley scrapbooks, 1920-1932, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Edna Talbott Whitley was born in 1891 in Paris, Kentucky to Robert C. Talbott, a lawyer, and Sallie Scott Grimes. Edna married Wade Hampton Whitley on June 10, 1909. Edna became a Kentucky historian and published works including Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture in 1956, George Berk an Eighteenth Century Painter, and in 1969 she compiled a list of cabinetmakers in Kentucky.
- Scope and Content
- The Edna Talbot Whitley scrapbooks contain programs from concerts held in the central Kentucky area, predominantly Lexington. The collection contains three scrapbooks of programs representing concerts given by major artists as well as local performers. Along with Lexington concert programs are others from Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Chautauqua, N.Y., and Paris, Ky. Among the well-known performers to appear in these concerts are Pablo Casals, Percy Grainger, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Fritz Kreisler, John McCormack, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Fritz Reiner and John Philip Sousa. Major symphony orchestras represented are the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony and the New York Symphony. Some ballet and opera programs are included, as well as a few concert reviews.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Conditions Governing Access note Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
Scrapbook, 1920-1926
Scrapbook, 1925 October 8 - 1932 February 7
Scrapbook, 1925 October 27 - 1928 April 14
Edna Whitley letter, undated
- Box 1, Folder 4
Signed copy of poem More about Lindbergh,, 1927
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If you are visiting the Breckinridge Research Room, please request materials at least 48 business hours in advance of your arrival.
For all other questions, contact us at: https://libraries.uky.edu/ContactSCRC.