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Box 2

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Several scripts for radio and stage plays, 1938

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Scope and Contents

Includes fragment of a WPA Federal Theatre Radio Division radio show program directed by Lawrence.

Dates: 1938

Eulogy to Lawrence Brown, handwritten by William Lawrence, and printed memorial concert program for Brown; clippings regarding Roland Hayes, Sadie Knight, and Marian Anderson.

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Collection Overview From the Collection: The papers relate to the professional career and personal life of William Lawrence, his wife, Lillian Thompson Lawrence, and her family, the Thompsons. Items of particular note are a series of concert programs dated 1919-1978, which include programs for performances by Lawrence, Marian Anderson, Roland Hayes, Lawrence Brown, and other notable black musicians, including his student, the blind vocalist Sadie Knight; a variety of sheet music arranged and composed by Lawrence and several notable...
Dates: 1972

Newspaper clippings and scholarly articles regarding musicians, operas, and urban development in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Collection Overview From the Collection: The papers relate to the professional career and personal life of William Lawrence, his wife, Lillian Thompson Lawrence, and her family, the Thompsons. Items of particular note are a series of concert programs dated 1919-1978, which include programs for performances by Lawrence, Marian Anderson, Roland Hayes, Lawrence Brown, and other notable black musicians, including his student, the blind vocalist Sadie Knight; a variety of sheet music arranged and composed by Lawrence and several notable...
Dates: undated

Photographs of Lawrence, his friends, pupils, and acquaintances

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Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Sadie Knight and autographed photos of W.C. Handy and William Grant Still, with inscription to W.C. Handy on photo of William Grant Still.

Dates: undated

Photographs of Lillian Thompson Lawrence

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Scope and Contents

Also includes her relatives, and members of the Citizens Care Committee of Harlem, New York, of which she was coordinator.

Dates: undated