Federal Music Project records
name: label: Creator
content: Federal Music Project (Pa.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Creator
content: Federal Music Project (Pa.)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Federal Music Project records
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Federal Music Project was a New Deal program under the Works Progress Administration.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.
function: label: Function
content: Agencies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934-1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fedemusp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the pre-existing microfilm arrangement, the collection is arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on Reels NDA27 and was returned to Theodore A. Seder after filming. The microfilm was described in a finding aid by Jayna Josefson in 2025 and the microfilm was digitized in 2025 with funding provided by Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection has been microfilmed on reel NDA 27. The microfilm has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Theodore A. Seder, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: 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.