Box 1
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Personal material; contains biographical material about Mrs. Valiant including clippings of her career in opera, letters of recommendation, statements re the death of Edwin Mims, Jr.,divorce decree, a resume, and personal letters., 1919 - 1945
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1919 - 1945
Resettlement Administration. Contains a "Journal of a Field Representative, Resettlement Administration Special Skills Division"; RA orders, daily work reports, correspondence, appointments, newsletters, programs, NP clippings, material re folk music festivals, other; letters and other material re recordings of folk songs from migrant camps; research material for folk festival plays; plays (Cumberland Nuggets and New Wine by M. Valiant, A Christmas Masque). Also included is a pamphlet re migrant workers, Problems of the Migrant Unemployed by Buel W. Patch., 1935 - 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2-5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1935 - 1939
Migrant Workers. Contains music, words of the migrant camp recordings made for the Farm Security Administration in the migrant camps in California and Arizona, newspaper clippings, and six issues of Covered Wagon News and Agri-News from Shaftner, California, Farm Workers Community, 1938 - 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1938 - 1939
National Youth Administration Youth Music Program. Photographs of All American Youth Orchestra(AAYO), a program, a broadside re Leopold Stokowski and AAYO, a memorandum and other material re auditions for AAYO, a pamphlet, Occupations, A Series of Vocational Studies, Music, from NYA of Illinois., 1939
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1939
National Youth Administration Music Program. Correspondence, transcripts of telephone calls, memorandum, audition records, telegrams, clippings, programs, and other re NYA and AAYO. Correspondents include Leopold Stokowski (23), Haig Gudenian (2). Also includes youth applications (folder 14), 1939 - 1943
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8-19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1939 - 1943
General Accounting Office (GAO) Investigation of AAYO. Correspondence and reports re the GAO investigation of AAYO expenses., 1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20-21
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1941
Roosevelt correspondence. Correspondence exchanged by Margaret Valiant,, Eleanor Roosevelt (10 TLS), and Malvina Thompson. Also included is a copy of a letter signed by FDR to Secretary of Agriculture (1939), which mentions Mrs. Valiant and the camp recordings., 1939 - 1946
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1939 - 1946
Oriental plays. Correspondence, an invitation, memos, etc. re East and West Association and Mrs. Valiant's efforts in producing plays with an oriental theme (one done at the White House). Correspondents include Yung Wang, an oriental actress. Several letters mention Pearl Buck. Also included are several oriental plays. See also folder 7 and 1974-1978 Addenda., 1945
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1945
National Council of Southern Negro Youth Congress. Correspondence and other material re National Council of the Southern Negro Congress. Included are biographies of Mary McLeod Bethune and George Washington Carver. Correspondents include Edward E. Strong., 1939 - 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: 1939 - 1940
Population Control and reproductive rights. Correspondence, pamphlets, a typed interview with Mrs. Roosevelt, and other material re population control., 1940 - 1970
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Margaret Valiant Papers, consists of correspondence and other material concerning Mrs. Valiant's work with the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration and the Music Division of the National Youth Administration. The correspondence includes letters exchanged between Margaret Valiant and Eleanor Roosevelt and letters to and from Leopold Stokowski. Other material in the collection pertains to migrant workers, folk music, dramatic product¬ions, population control, the...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970