Clotilde Arias Papers
name: label: Donor
content: Arias, Roger
label: Creator
content: United States. Dept. of State
label: Creator
content: Arias, Clotilde, 1901-1959
label: Creator
content: Thompson, J. Walter (advertising agency).
title: label: Topic
content: Star-spangled banner (Song)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Composers
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content: Translations
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content: Translators
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content: Good neighbor policy
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content: National songs
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content: advertising
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content: Women musicians -- 1930-1950
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content: Women musicians
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content: Advertising agencies
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content: Women in the advertising industry
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content: Women -- Peru
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content: Women composers
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content: Music by women composers
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content: Women composers -- United States
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content: Pan-Americanism
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content: Commercial art
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content: Jingles (Advertising songs)
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content: Jingles (Advertising songs) -- Writing and publishing
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content: Minorities in advertising
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content: Music in advertising
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content: Women translators
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content: Naturalization records
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated to the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, by Clotilde Arias's son, Roger Arias in 2010.
creator: label: Donor
content: Arias, Roger
label: Creator
content: United States. Dept. of State
label: Creator
content: Arias, Clotilde, 1901-1959
label: Creator
content: Thompson, J. Walter (advertising agency).
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content: Clotilde Arias Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection documents the life and career of Peruvian musician, composer, and translator Clotilde Arias. Her work includes a Department of State-commissioned translation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" titled "El Pendón Estrellado", advertising jingles, original compositions, and translations of music originally written in English. She also was heavily involved in numerous Pan-American organizations including La Unión de Mujeres Americanas/United American Women.This collection contains correspondence, music manuscripts, photographs,newspaper clippings and printed materials, and four compact discs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Clotilde Arias was a Peruvian-born musician, composer, and translator who lived in New York City following her migration from Iquitos, Peru, to the United States in the 1920s. Her full name was Maria Clotilde Arias and she briefly took her husband Jose Anduaga's last name during their marriage from 1929 to 1942 but was known most often as Clotilde Arias. With Jose Anduaga, Arias had one son, Roger Arias. While she is known for her Department of State-commissioned translation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" titled "El Pendón Estrellado," Arias worked diligently as a translator and musician in a variety of contexts as well as working with a variety of organizations that promoted Pan-Americanism. Prior to her life in the United States, Arias worked for the Iquitos newspaper El Oriente writing satirical pieces related to local issues. Arias died in 1959 in New York City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1957
label: Date
content: 2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1164
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Immigration records
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content: Music
label: Type
content: Contracts
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content: Correspondence
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content: Compact discs
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content: Scrapbooks
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content: Sheet music
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content: Parts (musical)
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content: Songbooks
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content: Photographs
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content: Commercial art
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is composed of six series.

Series 1: Personal Papers, 1923-1956

Series 2. Music Materials, 1921-1953

Series 3. "El Pendón Estrellado"/"The Star Spangled Banner," 1919-1954, 2009

Series 4. "Himno de las Américas"/"Hymn of the Americas," 1939-1945

Series 5. Miscellaneous Printed Materials, 1942-1956

Series 6. Photographs and Scrapbook, 1939-1957
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Sarah Corona, intern, August 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Immigration records
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content: Music -- Manuscripts
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content: Contracts
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content: Correspondence -- 20th century
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content: Compact discs
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Sheet music -- 1920-1960
label: Genre/Form
content: Parts (musical)
label: Genre/Form
content: Songbooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
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content: Commercial art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection documents the life and career of Clotilde Arias, who was chosen by the U.S. State Department to write a Spanish translation to "The Star Spangled Banner," during the years of the Good Neighbor Policy. In addition to materials related to her translation of the National Anthem, entitled "El Pendón Estrellado," the collection includes music manuscripts, lyrics, composition notebooks, parts for instruments, and correspondence with the State Department. This collection also contains papers related to Arias's work in advertising, her work as a translator, and her own business records. Personal papers include correspondence, immigration and naturalization documents, printed material, and photographs as well as items from a scrapbook. Also included are compact discs containing images from items in the collection.