Seidl Society Records, 1889-1898. 2 linear feet (4 boxes).
ArMs 1977.175
Anton Seidl (1850-1898), an influential Hungarian conductor, came to New York City in 1885 and became affiliated with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic Society. The Seidl Society of Brooklyn, created by Laura Langford Holloway and other affluent female patrons of music in Brooklyn, sponsored programs featuring Seidl at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and at Brighton Beach. This collection contains the papers of the Seidl society including roughly 300 correspondences from Seidl to Society President Laura Langford Holloway, roughly 300 Society programs and program notes, five scrapbooks from 1889-1898, four speeches and news clippings, and undated materials.
Subjects:
- Seidl, Anton, 1850-1898
- Holloway, Laura C. (Laura Cater) b. 1848
- Kraus, Auguste Seidl, 1853-1939
- Seidl Society Brooklyn, (New York, N.Y.) 1888-1898
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)1889-1898
- Brighton Beach (New York, N.Y.)1889-1898
- Philanthropy- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Nineteenth Century
- Scrapbooks- Nineteenth Century
- Orchestras- New York (N.Y.) - Nineteenth Century
- Women- societies and clubs- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Nineteenth Century