Helen Berlin Scrapbook
Scope and Content Note
This scrapbook contains concert programs, news clippings, and photographs tracing Berlin's career as a violinist.
Dates
- Creation: undated, 1910, 1925-1941, 1951, 1998
Creator
- Berlin, Helen (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
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Biographical Note
Helen Berlin, born in Philadelphia, was a violin soloist, chamber-music artist, and teacher. A child prodigy who played her first public recital at age seven, she was later awarded a four year fellowship at Juilliard Graduate School. In 1934 she won an orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra through a violinists' contest conducted by the Concerts for Youth Committee. She later played with the NBC Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic.
Extent
1.95 Linear Feet (1 one-half manuscript box, 1 oversized box)
Language of Materials
English
Yiddish
Abstract
Scrapbook contains concert programs, news clippings, and photographs tracing Berlin's career as a violinist.
Acquisition Note
Phyllis C. Weinberg 2003.065
Subject
- Philadelphia Orchestra (Organization)
Genre / Form
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Helen Berlin Scrapbook, undated, 1910, 1925-1941, 1951, 1998 *P-842
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Marvin Rusinek
- Date
- © 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- October 2020: RJohnstone: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
