Ulysses Kay papers, 1894-2017, bulk 1938-1995

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Series VIII: Photographs, circa 1920s-1993, undated

This series contains personal and professional photographs related to Ulysses Kay. The photographs are arranged chronologically.


Subseries VIII.1: Professional Photographs Involving Kay, 1940-1991, undated

This subseries contains professional photographs of Ulysses Kay. The photographs include portrait photographs, group photographs, and event photographs. The files are arranged chronologically, with unidentified and undated photographs being filed at the end of the subseries.



Box 80 Folder 27 Kay, 1940


Box 80 Folder 28 Navy Band, 1940s

(Negatives)


Box 80 Folder 29 BMI, 1953 March


Box 80 Folder 30 SCRA Judging Luncheon, 1954 May 11


Box 80 Folder 31 Kay at Stuyvesant Town (277 Ave. C), 1954


Box 80 Folder 32 Kay with George Szell, Director of the Cleveland Orchestra, probably, 1954

(Kay's work was also performed by the Cleveland Orchestra in 1967; see Series III.1 Programs, 1954 and 1967)


Box 80 Folder 33 Kay with Anahid Ajemian, Violinist, probably, 1955

(See Series III.1 Programs)


Box 80 Folder 34 Kay at BMI, 1957 December


Box 80 Folder 35 20th Century (Roosevelt Films), 1958 March


Box 80 Folder 36 Kay with Gennady Rozdesventsky, Conductor of the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and Roger Sessions, Moscow,, 1958 October


Box 80 Folder 37 Kay and other Composers in the Russian Cultural Exchange at Taping of NBC Program, circa, 1959 November 23

(Includes Slonimsky, Shostakovich, Amirov, Yerustovksy, Hanson, Shulman, Dankevich, Kay, Kabalevsky, Khrennikov, and Harris.)


Box 80 Folder 38 Virginia Kay and Soviet Composers at Airport, 1959 November

(Ulysses Kay is not in this photograph)


Box 80 Folder 39 U.S. Embassy in Rome, 1959


Box 80 Folder 40 United Nations Recording Session, 1962


Box 80 Folder 41 to 42 Xavier University and the Premiere of the Juggler of Our Lady, 1962 (2 Folders), 1962


Box 80 Folder 43 Lincoln College Commencement (Honorary Doctorate), 1963


Box 80 Folder 44 Kay at Yaddo, 1963

(Photographs and Negatives)


Box 80 Folder 45 Princeton Club, 1967 July 27


Box 80 Folder 46 Chicago Musical College Centennial Concert & Banquet, 1968 February 4


Box 80 Folder 47 Lake George Opera Festival, 1968 August


Box 80 Folder 48 Illinois Wesleyan University (Honorary Doctorate), 1969 March


Box 80 Folder 49 University of Arizona Commencement (Honorary Doctorate), 1969


Box 80 Folder 50 Kay at Piano, 1969 August (Ektachrome Color Slides), 1969 August


Box 80 Folder 51 Kay at Piano, 1969 August (Black & White Photographs), 1969 August


Box 80 Folder 52 US Civil War Centennial Commission--UK Receiving Centennial Medallion,, 1960s


Box 80 Folder 53 Kay and CBS Producer Oliver Daniel, circa, 1960s


Box 80 Folder 54 Kay, 1960s


Box 80 Folder 55 University of Rochester, 1972


Box 80 Folder 56 Barbara & Ulysses Kay, 1975 May


Box 80 Folder 57 10 Year Club Lunch, 1975


Box 80 Folder 58 New York Philharmonic Reception, 1977


Box 80 Folder 59 BMI Student Composer Awards, 1978 May 11


Box 80 Folder 60 Dickinson College, 1978 May


Box 80 Folder 61 Kay with Dana Forley in Class, 1979 December


Box 80 Folder 61a Unidentified Photographs taken by Mary Gail Walker, circa, 1979


Box 80 Folder 62 Kay at Home in Englewood, New Jersey, circa, 1970s


Box 80 Folder 63 Photographs, circa, 1970s


Box 80 Folder 64 University of Arizona Commencement, 1980


Box 80 Folder 65 Kay, circa, 1980


Box 80 Folder 66 University of Kansas City, Missouri (Honorary Doctorate), 1981 November


Box 80 Folder 67 Reception for Chinese, 1981


Box 80 Folder 68 National Association of Negro Musicians Dinner, 1983 August 18


Box 80 Folder 69 Houston Ballet, 1984


Box 80 Folder 70 BMI Awards, 1985 May 16

(Includes press release. Kay awarded a citation.)


Box 80 Folder 71 [BMI] Student Composers Judging, 1984 April 7


Box 80 Folder 72 Kay, Tom Everett, and Bob Gibson in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988 March 12


Box 80 Folder 73 Wayne Chamber Orchestra (New Jersey), 1989


Box 80 Folder 74 Lehman College Tribute Concert, 1989


Box 80 Folder 75 Unidentified Event, 1991 May 10


Box 80 Folder 76 Kay with Elsie Bennett (Accordion), undated


Box 80 Folder 77 Kay with Stan Meyers, undated


Box 80 Folder 78 Kay with Dr. Gene-Ann Polk Horne, undated


Box 80 Folder 79 Various Portrait Photographs, undated


Box 80 Folder 80 Unidentified Photographs by H.Y. Reiter (BMI), undated


Box 80 Folder 81 to 82 Unidentified UK Professional Photographs, undated, (2 Folders)


Subseries VIII.2: Other Professional Photographs, circa 1940s-1993, undated

This subseries contains photographs of others that are related to Kay's professional activities. The photographs are primarily portrait photographs of performers.


Box 80 Folder 83 3 Photographs found in "5 Mosaics" (1940), undated (Includes inscribed photographs of Leon Kirkpatrick and a signed photo of "Minnette"), undated


Box 80 Folder 83a Yaddo (Postcards), circa, 1950s


Box 80 Folder 84 United States Marine Band, 1958-1960


Box 80 Folder 85 David Mearns looking at a Kay Manuscript, 1962


Box 80 Folder 86 Oscar Petty, 1993

(Inscribed to Kay)


Box 80 Folder 87 Hale Smith, undated


Box 80 Folder 88 Paul Barbarin, Undated

(This is a picture of Barbarin with King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators, undated. It is not an original photograph, but a published copy that included text on Barbarin.)


Box 80 Folder 89 Unidentified Dance Photo, undated


Subseries VIII.3: Family and Personal Photographs, 1920s-1990, undated

This subseries contains primarily family photographs, although there are also some personal photographs taken in Holland, Russia, and of unidentified acquaintances. Most of the photographs are unidentified


Box 80 Folder 90 Early Family Photographs, 1920s


Box 80 Folder 91 Friends and Others (Unidentified), 1940s & 1950s undated, 1940s, 1950s undated


Box 80 Folder 92 Ulysses Kay and Less Roehy, 1940s


Box 80 Folder 93 Kays at Academy [of Rome], circa, 1949

(Includes related 1995 condolence letter)


Box 80 Folder 94 Ulysses and Barbara Kay, circa, 1950


Box 80 Folder 95 Virginia Kay, 1951 (With related correspondence (1963 1973) and a birth announcement), 1951


Box 80 Folder 96 Elizabeth Davis Kay, circa, 1950s


Box 80 Folder 97 Moscow, circa, 1958

(Photographs and negatives)



Box 81 Folder 1 to 6 Kay Family Photographs, Miscellaneous, 1950s-1960s (6 Folders), 1950s-1960s


Box 81 Folder 7 Kay Family Photographs, Miscellaneous, 1970s


Box 81 Folder 8 to 10 Kay Family Photographs, Miscellaneous Negatives, 1950s-1970s (3 Folders), 1950s-1970s


Box 81 Folder 11 Ulysses and Barbara Kay, circa, 1990


Box 81 Folder 12 Holland--Acad (Angello), Ballet, and Others, undated (Negatives), undated



Box 117 Folder 1 Signed photograph of Alain Locke, 1940

Signed: "For Ulysses Kay, with best wishes, Alain Locke, 1940."


Box 117 Folder 11 Scrapbook page with contact sheet from H. Reiter, undated

Photographs glued to a page; some of the photographs have come loose; includes a folder with contact sheet.