Due to the pre-existing microfilm arrangement, the collection is arranged as one series.
Access Note / Rights:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Summary:
The records of the Federal Music Project date from 1934 to 1943. Found are applications and proposals, correspondence, and final reports concerning the collection and duplication of music written by American composers and the Pan-American Union.
Citation:
Federal Music Project records, 1934-1943. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
The collection has been microfilmed on reel NDA 27. The microfilm has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
Location of Originals:
Originals returned to the lender, Theodore A. Seder, after microfilming.
Funding:
The digitization of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund
Use Note:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Loan:
Loan
Related Materials:
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of additional Federal Music Project records, 1939-1942, on microfilm reel NDA 18, which include material kept by Federal Music Project administrator Emily Mason Kahn.
Biography Note:
The Federal Music Project was a New Deal program under the Works Progress Administration. The Pan American Union worked with the Federal Music Project and developed projects like the music-copying project. The Philadelphia unit of the copying project reproduced scores of Latin-American compositions which were deposited in the Edwin A. Fleischer collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
Theodore A. Seder, a curator of the Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection where many of the reproduced manuscripts are housed, loaned the records to the Archives of American Art and the records were returned after filming.
Digitization Note:
This site provides access to the papers of Federal Music Project (Pa.) in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2025 from 1 reel of microfilm, and total 68 images.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Federal aid to the arts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Search this
