Clippings, correspondence, and ephemera
Scope and Contents
Highlights include an early citation to Stearns by the NAACP, a portrait by his first wife Elizabeth Stearns, and early phonographs, African drums and other musical instruments collected by Stearns. They are stored in the Institute's Rare Items Room. Also contained in this series are historically significant correspondence and interoffice memos and other documents between 1943 and 1945 of Decca Records executive Eugene Williams, which have no apparent connection to Stearns.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for use.
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
The few items in this series are ordered by significance rather than chronologically or alphabetically. These include awards, a oil portrait of Stearns and musical instruments and antique phonographs.
Separated Materials
Four items were removed from this series. Issues of The Cat's Meow published between 1960-62, the monthly newsletter of the Columbia (SC) Jazz Club and the Mohawk Valley (NY) Jazz Society were interfiled among the IJS collection of jazz society newsletters. The first and second editions of the Dial Records catalog were placed in the records catalog file.
Creator
- From the Collection: Stearns, Marshall Winslow
Part of the Institute of Jazz Studies Repository
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