The Performing Arts Blog will showcase treasures in the Music Division’s collections of Music, Theater and Dance, from works of the great masters to long forgotten slices of our musical heritage. This blog will also highlight events in the Library’s concert series in the Coolidge Auditorium.
African American band posed on steps to brick building, 1899 or 1900
The Leonard Bernstein Collection, 1947
Victor Talking Machine Company, 1909
Three masters : the stringed instrument collection in the Library of Congress [print], 1983
Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947
Louis Armstrong, 1953
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Life Magazine, February 4, 1946, cover. Bob Hope Collection
