Dates

• Majority of material found within 1875 - 2019

Extent

11 boxes Linear Feet (The Department of Music collection contains audio/visual recordings, correspondence and office files, memorabilia, performance information, photographs, and publications from the Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Music is by far one of the oldest established programs of study at the university. More information is available online about the IUP Department of Music and in IUP Publications such as catalogs which show that music has been part of the academic curriculum since the founding of Indiana State Normal School (ISNS) in 1875. This collection includes publications and files about the Department of Music and the College of Fine Arts dating from 1907-1908 to the present. When it was first founded, the Department of Music was known as the Conservatory of Music at Indiana State Normal School. The first department chairperson was Hamlin E. Cogswell; he, his wife Dorothy Cogswell, and their daughter Edna Cogswell Otis taught at Indiana State Normal School from 1906 to 1916 (see Manuscript Group 214: Cogswell Family Papers). The Department of Music collection is organized into four series: Series I – department files and publications; Series II – photographs and scrapbooks; Series III – audio/visual recordings; and Series IV – Oversized Materials. Other archival collections that contain references to the IUP Department of Music include: Record Group 67: Video Master Collection; Record Group 68: The College of Fine Arts; Record Group 81: University Photographs; Record Group 84: Carol Teti Memorial Organ Scholarship Committee; and Record Group 87: Diploma and Certificate Collection. )

Language of Materials

English