Box 1
Container
Contains 53 Results:
Correspondence from P.S. Gilmore (photocopies), 1864 - 1879
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1864 - 1879
Vital records, 1892 - 1966
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Includes an original record of death and a reissued marriage record, as well as an exhibit label for the marriage certificate and a photocopy of possibly his naturalization record.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1892 - 1966
Gilmore's Band, "The Peoples' Promenade" concert program (photocopy), 1858
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1858
Concert programs for P.S. Gilmore contemporaries, 1853 - 1877
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Concerts include: "Distinguished Actress, Miss Davenport" at the Walnut Street Theatre (1853), Parepa Rosa's Grand Concerts (1869), Clara Louise Kellogg's Grand Concerts (1871), and Grand Festival Concert at the Tabernacle (1877).
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1853 - 1877
Program, Grand Testimonial to P.S. Gilmore, 1869 June 29
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1869 June 29
Program, official, 1872 June 26
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1872 June 26
Program for afternoon events, 1872 June 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1872 June 27
Program, 1872 June
File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1872 June
Appendix to music, 1872 June
File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1872 June
Gilmore's Band, 22nd Regiment of New York, concert in Dublin, flier (photocopy), 1878 May 16
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1878 May 16
Sheet music by P.S. Gilmore (reproductions), 1855
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17-18
Scope and Contents
Includes "Gilmore's Band Music Arranged for the Piano" with two tunes: "Summer Breezes Quick Step" and "Verdi's Quick Step", as well as "The Spirit of the North", "The Breakfast Bell Polka" and the "Supper Bell Polka".
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1855
Irish National Anthem arrangements by T.C. Kelly, score parts, photocopies, between 1950s-1980s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Documents detailing the history and activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society. Materials include Michael Cummings's correspondence regarding P.S. Gilmore's life and music career as well as material collected by the Gilmore Society, including articles and a typescript about P.S. Gilmore by John Nicholson. Several programs and posters for concerts organized by the Patrick S. Gilmore Society are present.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
between 1950s-1980s
Sheet music covers by P.S. Gilmore (reproductions), 1850-1863, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19-20
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs and photocopies.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1850-1863, undated
Poems and song lyrics by P.S. Gilmore (photocopies), 1887, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1887, undated
Photographic portraits of P.S. Gilmore, between 1848-1892
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Copy photographs of photographic and print portraits of P.S. Gilmore. Includes P.S. Gilmore in his band uniform as well as plainclothes suits.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
between 1848-1892
Family photographs: Ellen Gilmore, P.S. Gilmore, and Mary Louise "Minnie" Gilmore, 1870s-1900s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1870s-1900s
Birthplace of P.S. Gilmore, Ballygar, Ireland, photographs and correspondence, 1974, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of P.S. Gilmore's home, Bandmaster Keating's House, and Lower Main Street in Ballygar, Ireland, along with a letter from the Boston Public Library.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1974, undated
Cornet manufactured by Gilmore and Company, photographs, 1970, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Pictures of a Gilmore and Company manufactured cornet. Notes on back of photos suggest the cornet was manufactured prior to 1867.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1970, undated
Gilmore's Band, photographs, approximately 1884, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
approximately 1884, undated
Photographs, Grand Coliseum interior, 1872 June 18
File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1872 June 18
Illustration of the Grand Coliseum interior (photograph of a lithograph), undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
undated
Illustration of the Grand Coliseum exterior (photograph of a lithograph), undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
undated
Anvil Chorus group at the Boston Peace Jubilee (photocopy of photograph), 1869
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1869
Military medals and wreaths in P.S. Gilmore's living room following his death, photograph, 1892
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1892
Illustration of "the Grand Ball at the Coliseum" (photograph of an illustration by Augustus Hoppin), undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection documenting the life and music career of the nineteenth-century Irish-American band leader, conductor, and cornetist P.S. Gilmore. It also highlights the activities of the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, founded by Michael Cummings in Boston in 1968 or 1969. Materials assembled by Michael Cummings include correspondence, concert programs, Gilmore's cornet, photographs, lithographs, audio and visual recordings, and newspaper and magazine articles. Much of the material pertains to two...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
undated