COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS

NAME OF COLLECTION: Frederick C. SCHANG Visi t ing cards

SOURCE: Gift of Mr Schang, 1977 - 1978 - 1980 - 1981 -' 1982 - 19831986 - 1988

SUBJECT: Visiting cards of celebrities

DATES COVERED: . i Rnn -. 1982 NUMBER OF ITEMS: 16U3

STATUS: (check appropriate description)Cataloged: X Listed: X Arranged: X Not organized:

CONDITION: (give number of vols., boxes, or shelves)Bound: i p B o x e d : 7 Stored:

LOCATION: (Library) Rare Book & Manuscript CALL-NUMBER Ms Coll/Schang(VAULT)/3

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DESCRIPTION:

Frederick C. Schang, 1893- (Columbia UniversitySchool of Journalism, 1915), Chairman of ColumbiaArtists Management, collected the visiting cards ofmusical ar t is ts : composers, vocalists, conductors,etc . , and of authors, presidents, and other celebritiesof the 19th and 20th century, most bearing handwrittenmessages. There are also photographs and othermemorabilia. Mr Schang arranged the collection inten volumes, as shown on the other side of this page.

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F.C. SCHANG - Visiting cards:

Cataloged items: 7 boxes

Uncataloged series: 12 volumes: vol 1 - Composersvol 2 - Composersvol 3 - Performers - Vocalistsvol k - Performers - Instrumentalistsvol 5 - Performers - Conductors, actors, dancersvol 6 - Authors - English languagevol T - Authors - Foreign languagesvol 8 - Presidents - First ladiesvol 9 - Prominent Americansvol 10- All others

(The volumes include photocopies of the cataloged items)

Tvol 11 Additions to Collectionvol 12 . " M

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 1Composers

Uncataloged series:Brahms, JohannesChat>rier, EmmanuelChopin, FredericDebussy, ClaudeDohnanyi, Ernst vonDvorak, AntoninFalla, Manuel deGinastera, AlbertoGomes, CarlosGounod, CharlesGrieg, EdvardHaydn, JosephLiszt, FranzLiszt, MmeMacDowell, Edward A.Mascagni, PietroMendelsohn, FelixMeyerbeer, GiacomoRichter, HansStrauss, Johann

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F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 2Composers

Uncataloged series:

Harbach, Otto AbelsNevin, EthelbertOffenbach, JacquesPalmgren, SelimPonchielli, AmilcarePoulenc, FrancisProkofiev, SergeiPuccini, GiacomoRossini, GioacchinoSaint-Saens, CamilleSchonberg, ArnoldSibelius, JeanSinding, ChristianStrauss, JohannTchaikovsky, Petr IlyichThompson, RandallToch, ErnstTosti, PaoloVarese, EdgarVerdi, GiuseppeWagner, Cosima LisztWagner, RichardWeckerlin, Jean BaptisteWolf, Hugo

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 3Performers - Vocalists

Uncataloged series:

Abbott, EmmaAlboni, Marietta (Countess Pepoli)Benedict, Sir JuliusBjoerling, JussiCallas, MariaCaruso, EnricoCase, AnnaChaliapin, FeodorFarrar, GeraldineGarden, MaryGigli, BeniaminoJeritza, MariaKostelanetz, AndreLind, JennyMayer, Marcus R.Melchior, LauritzMerrill, RobertMoffo, AnnaMorgana, NinaMorini, ArturoNordica, LillianPatti, AdelinaPons, LilyRethberg, ElisabethStevens, RiseTamango, FrancescoTelva, MarionTucker, Richard

F.C, Schang - Visiting cardsVol. kPerformers - Instrumentalists

Uncataloged series:

Albert, HermineBrowning, JohnCasadesus, RobertCasals, PabloGoldberg, SzymonHofmann, JosefHorowitz, VladimirHuberman, BronislawIturbi, JoseLaredo, JaimeMoszkowski, HenrietteOistrakh, DavidPachmann, Vladimir dePaganini, NiccoloSerkin, RudolfSessions, RogerSevcik, OtakarSpivakovsky, TossyVecsey de Borollyo, Ferenc deWelhelm, AugustYsaye, Eugene

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 5Performers - Conductors, actors, dancers

Uncataloged series:

Adams, MaudeBarnum, Phineas TaylorBarrymore, EthelBernhardt, SarahBernstein, LeonardBurke, BillieCampbell, Beatrice Stella Tanner (Mrs Patrick)Cecchetti, EnricoDerval, PaulDuse, EleonoraFranko, NahanGunsbourg, RaoulHope, BobKaraj an, Hervert vonKemble, Fanny AnneKrehbiel, Clayton H.Leinsdorf, ErichLorenz, AdolfMonteux, PierreCrmandy, EugenePickford, MaryPrice, LeontyneSargent, MalcolmShav, RobertStokowski, LeopoldSzell, GeorgeTaglione, MariaTemple, ShirleyToscanini, ArturoTrapp, Maria vonWalter, BrunoWeingartner, FelixWilder, Billy

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 6Authors - English language

Uncataloged series:

Bancroft, GeorgeBenet, Stephen VincentBerenson, BernardBrowning, RobertCabell, James BranchClemens, Samuel LanghornevConrad, JosephDouglas, Lord AlfredDrinkwater, JohnDurant, Will & ArielGosse, Sir EdmundHale, Edward EverettHallam, HenryIrving, WashingtonJames, HenryLanier, SidneyLondon, JackLongfellow, Alice M.Longfellow, Henry WadsworthLowell, James RussellLoos, AnitaLucas, Edward VerrallMacaulay, Thomas BabingtonMann, HoraceO'Neill, EugenePeel, Sir RobertShaw, George BernardSparks, JaredStevenson, Robert LouisTarkington, BoothThackeray, William MakepeaceTocqueville, Alexis deWhittier, John GreenleafWilliams, Tennessee

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. TAuthors - Foreign languages

Uncataloged series:

BaudelaireBazin, ReneBjornson, BjornstjerneCocteau, JeanColetteCoppee, Francois fidouard JoachimDaudet, AlphonseDaudet, LeonDumas, AlexandreFort, PaulGide, AndreGoethe, Johann Wolfgang vonGoncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot deGourmont, Remy deHanslick, EduardKraus, KarlLamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat deLouys, PierreMaupassant, Guy deMaurois, AndreMEimee, ProsperProust, Marcel & RobertPrunieres, HenryRostand, EdmondSardou, VictorienVerne, JulesWagner, RichardZola, Emile

F.C. Sohang - Visiting cardsVol. 8Presidents - First ladies

Uncataloged series:

Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Mrs Grover)Coolidge, CalvinEisenhower, Maimie Dowd (Mrs Dwight D.)Ford, Elizabeth Bloomer (Mrs Gerald R.)Ford, Gerald R.Hoover, Lou Henry (Mrs Herbert)Harrison, BenjaminJohnson, AndrewJohnson, eady BirdJohnson, Lyndon BainesKennedy, Jacquelin B. (Mrs John F.)Kennedy, John FitzgeraldLincoln, AbrahamMadison, JamesNixon, Patricia Ryan (Mrs Richard M.)Nixon, Richard MilhousRoosevelt, Edith Kermit (Mrs Theodore)Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs Franklin D.Roosevelt, Franklin DelanoTruman, Bess Wallace (Mrs Harry S.)Truman, Harry S.Wilson, Edith Boiling Gait (Mrs Woodrow")

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 9Prominent Americans

Uncataloged series:

Acheson, Dean GooderhamAgassiz, Elizabeth Cabot CaryAnthony, Susan BrownellAstor, MrAstor, Mr & Mrs & Miss WardBlaine, James GillespieBryan, William JenningsByrd, Richard EvelynCannon, Joseph GurneyCass, LewisCates, Clifton BledsoeClay, HenryClayton, John MiddletonCody, William FrederickCooper, PeterDepew, Chauncey MitchellDoolittle, James HaroldDouglas, Stephen ArnoldDu Pont, Henry AlgernonFish, HamiltonFarragut, David GlasgowGage, Douglas W.Goldwater, BarryGreeley, HoraceEalsey, William FrederickHam!in, HannibalHammond, John HaysHay, JohnHughes, Charles EvansHumphrey, Hubert HoratioJohnson, Robert UnderwoodKennedy, Edward MooreKing, Ernest JosephKissinger, Henry AlfredLivingston, RobertLongworth Alice RooseveltLow, SethLuce, Clare BootheMills, Wilbur DaighMorton, Julius SterlingNimitz, Chester WilliamPercy, Charles H.Perkins, FrancesPinkerton, William A.Pulitzer, WalterRibicoff, Abraham A.

Riley, James Whitcomb(Mrs Louis) Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich

Rodeheaver, Homer AlvanRoot, ElihuSheffield, Chaney MorganSmith, Margaret ChaseSquier, George OwenStone, LucySumner, CharlesTaft, Charles PhelpsTwining, Nathan FarragutVanderbilt, CorneliusVanderbilt, Grace Wilson (Mrs C.Wagner, Robert FerdinandWallace, Henry AgardWebster, Caroline Le Roy (Mrs D.White, Edward DouglassWillis, Nathaniel Parker

F.C. Schang - Visiting cardsVol. 10All others

Uncataloged series:

Astor, Waldorf Astor, 2nd ViscountAly KahnAmundsen, RoaldBartholdi, Frederic AugusteBernard, ClaudeBerry, Charles Ferdinand, Due deBing, (Sir) RudolfBismarck-Schonhausen, (Prince) Otto Eduard Leopold vonBonaparte, Jerome NapoleonBond, JamesBurg, Gerald WilliamChurchill, (Sir) Winston Leonard SpencerCurie, PierreDoumergue, GastonFreud, SigmundGeorge, Annie Corsina Fox (Mrs Henry) & Miss GeorgeGrace de Monaco, PrincessHo Chi MinhHolmes, SherlockHu ShihHumboldt, (Baron) Alexander vonJoffre, Joseph Jacques CesaireKitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, EarlLafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert de Motier, Marquis deLovelace, Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, Countess ofLowell, Frances Dunlap (Mrs James Russell)Lvoff, AndreNasser, Gamal AbdelNelson, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount (Duke of Bronte)Noailles, Anna Elisabeth de Brancovan, Countess deNoailles, Emmanuel Henri Victurnien, Marquis dePasteur, LouisPoincare, RaymondPouce, TomReading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess ofRevris, H.N.Stanley, (Sir) Henry MortonTesla, NikolaTolstoy (Count) DmitryWellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

Ms CollSchangVol. 11 ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION

Frederick C. Schang - Visiting cards: 1980 gift

Davidson, JoDrew, JohnHorowitz, VladimirHuberdeau, GustayeIrwin, James BensonLang, Benjamin JohnsonMarconi, GulielmoMassenet, Jules Smile FredSricMunthe, Axel Martin FredrikRedon, OdilonRoosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs Franklin D,Sims, William SowdenSmetana, FriedrichSylva, Marguerita

Porter, ColePorter, Linda Lee Thomas (Mrs Cole)

Ms CollSchang^ *Vol, 11 ADDITION TO COLLECTION

1986 gift

Cataloged visiting cards:

Berlin, IrvingColette, Sidonie Gabrielle ClaudineDuse, EleonoraGandhi, Indira NehruHauptmann, Gerhart Johann RobertHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichPetipa, Marius IvanovichSantos-Dumont, AlbertoThompson, Polly & Helen KellerTharp, Twyla

Uncataloged cards:

Field, Cyrus West

1987 gift

Cataloged visting cardsMadison, JamesBraudel, Fernand

1988 gift

Cataloged visiting cards:

Barney,. Natalie Clifford. Cilea,- Francesco.-". Eliot, T.S. ,.-...'• -Horszowsfci, MieczysXaw .•' - Lifar, Serge . ' '" • .::r ;• Reagan, ''Ronald '_, ,•• . .-

"Uncatai'd e.d- cards: .. •••-

Doolittle, James HaroldWalesa, Lech

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Ms CollSchang - 1983 giftVol. 11 ADDITIONS TO COLLECTIONCataloged:

Adlon, LouisAiken, WilliamAuriol, VincentBanks, Mary Palmer (Mrs Nathanial P.)Banks, Nathaniel PrentissButler, Ellis ParkerCampbell, Emilie S. Chapron (Mrs James)Campbell, Lewis DavidCollins, Wilkie'Cox, PalmerCurie, Marie SklodowskaDavis, Varina Howell (Mrs Jefferson)De Koven, ReginaldDetaille, Jean Baptiste fidouardDobbin, James CochranDouglas, Adele Cutts (Mrs Stephen A.)Douglas, Stephen ArnoldDurrell, LawrenceEnsor, JamesFish, Julia U.N. Kean (Mrs Hamilton)Fuller, LoieGrow, Galusha AaronGuthrie, JamesHamlin, HannibalHayes, Patrick Joseph, CardinalHolmes, Fanny Bowditch Dixwell (Mrs Oliver W.)Houston, SamuelKarloff, BorisMcClelland, Sarah Sabine (Mrs Robert)Pau, GerardSeward, Anna M. Wharton (Mrs Frederick W.)Seward, William HenrySeward, Mr & Mrs William HenryShaw, Henry Wheeler "Josh Billings"Slidell, JohnSlidell, Mathilde Deslonde (Mrs JohnStranahan, Marianne Fitch (Mrs James S.T.Wanamaker, JohnWebb, Laura Virginia Cram (Mrs James W.)Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Uncataloged:Fisher, Dorothy CanfieldMellon, Andrew William

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Ms CollSchang-Vol. 11 ADDITION TO COLLECTION

1986 gift ' ,

Cataloged visiting cards:

Berlin, Irving >-

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine )Duse, EleonoraGandhi, Indira NehruHauptmann, Gerhart Johann RobertHegel, Georg Wilhelm FriedrichPetipa, Marius IvanovichSantos-Dumont, AlbertoThompson, Polly & Helen KellerTharp, Tvyla

Uncataloged cards:

Field, Cyrus West1987 gift

Cataloged visting cardsMadison, JamesBraudel, Fernand