Scope and Contents From the Collection: These papers document the musical career of twentieth-century Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara, as well as, to a lesser degree, her personal life. Materials include artifacts, awards, business files, correspondence, discographies, manuscripts, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, press releases, print publicity, recorded talks and performances, scripts, set lists, and sheet music. The collection highlights O’Hara’s early musical success in the 1950s through her entrance to Stanbrook...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings and born-digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. O'Hara's scrapbooks are closed due to fragility. Personal correspondence with Adrian Hastings and Deirdre Kelleher is restricted until 2025.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These papers document the musical career of twentieth-century Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara, as well as, to a lesser degree, her personal life. Materials include artifacts, awards, business files, correspondence, discographies, manuscripts, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, press releases, print publicity, recorded talks and performances, scripts, set lists, and sheet music. The collection highlights O’Hara’s early musical success in the 1950s through her entrance to Stanbrook...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings and born-digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. O'Hara's scrapbooks are closed due to fragility. Personal correspondence with Adrian Hastings and Deirdre Kelleher is restricted until 2025.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These papers document the musical career of twentieth-century Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara, as well as, to a lesser degree, her personal life. Materials include artifacts, awards, business files, correspondence, discographies, manuscripts, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, press releases, print publicity, recorded talks and performances, scripts, set lists, and sheet music. The collection highlights O’Hara’s early musical success in the 1950s through her entrance to Stanbrook...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings and born-digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. O'Hara's scrapbooks are closed due to fragility. Personal correspondence with Adrian Hastings and Deirdre Kelleher is restricted until 2025.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These papers document the musical career of twentieth-century Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara, as well as, to a lesser degree, her personal life. Materials include artifacts, awards, business files, correspondence, discographies, manuscripts, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, press releases, print publicity, recorded talks and performances, scripts, set lists, and sheet music. The collection highlights O’Hara’s early musical success in the 1950s through her entrance to Stanbrook...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings and born-digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. O'Hara's scrapbooks are closed due to fragility. Personal correspondence with Adrian Hastings and Deirdre Kelleher is restricted until 2025.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These papers document the musical career of twentieth-century Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara, as well as, to a lesser degree, her personal life. Materials include artifacts, awards, business files, correspondence, discographies, manuscripts, memorabilia, notebooks, photographs, press releases, print publicity, recorded talks and performances, scripts, set lists, and sheet music. The collection highlights O’Hara’s early musical success in the 1950s through her entrance to Stanbrook...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings and born-digital content have been digitally copied from source media; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room. O'Hara's scrapbooks are closed due to fragility. Personal correspondence with Adrian Hastings and Deirdre Kelleher is restricted until 2025.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of material collected by Kitty Haas including items regarding the writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, as well as the reformist community he founded of craft workers and artists, Roycroft. The collection contains advertisements and broadsides, ceramics, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs and sketches, and printing press records. Also included are original manuscripts, typescripts, and notes of Hubbard's, a framed portrait from the Boston-based...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Negatives in Shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of material collected by Kitty Haas including items regarding the writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard, as well as the reformist community he founded of craft workers and artists, Roycroft. The collection contains advertisements and broadsides, ceramics, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs and sketches, and printing press records. Also included are original manuscripts, typescripts, and notes of Hubbard's, a framed portrait from the Boston-based...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research. Negatives in Shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of programs and playbills from performing arts theaters in Ireland, predominantly Dublin, Galway, and Cork. The bulk of programs represent Cork Opera House, Druid Theatre/Mick Lally Theatre, Gaiety Theatre, Gate Theatre, and Olympia Theatre. Many of the shows were produced by Illsley-McCabe Productions. The collection also contains ephemera such as fliers, invitations, posters, and ticket stubs for performances, a prospectus for the sale of the Olympia Theatre (1963), and a copy of...

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

O'Hara's analog photographs are mostly professional in content. They contain promotional photographs of O'Hara with her harp, events, including performances, and a small amount of candids of O'Hara, her husband Padraig O'Toole, and family. Materials are prints, except where slides are noted.

Restrictions on Access

The slides in Box 31, Folder 18 require use of a light box provided by the Burns Library Reading Room. Negatives, in shared box 1715, are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs, in boxes 31-32, are available for access.