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Guide to the Betty Packer Collection 1870-2000
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- Title
- Betty Packer collection 1870-2000
- Subject
- Pittsburgh Symphony Society., Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre., Pittsburgh Opera., Opera--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Floods--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--1936
- Description
- The Betty Packer collection contains programs from her involvement with the Pittsburgh Opera and Tuesday Musical Club. These include music and ballet theatre programs, Pittsburgh Symphony and Youth Symphony programs, and Tuesday Musical Society music sheets. The collection also contains pages from a Blair, Wightman, Holmes family bible, a 1949 Pittsburgh railroad schedule, and a captioned photograph album containing images from the 1936 Pittsburgh flood., Betty Packer collection, 1870-2000, MSS 0628, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Nancy Packer Gift 2011 2011.0062, Betty Jane (Lake) Packer performed for more than 45 years as a soprano with the chorus of the Pittsburgh Opera. She served as secretary to the Opera's general director from the 1940s to the 1970s, administering the daily operations of the organization. Betty Packer appeared in numerous solo roles, including Musetta (La Boheme), Ellen (Lakme), Sarah Goode (The Crucible), Frasquita (Carmen), and the Dew Fairy (Hansel & Gretel). She also performed with the Opera Workshop and Tuesday Musical Society, where she chaired the choral division. She was an active member of the Pittsburgh Opera Association Women Auxiliary, and she served on the committee of the Metropolitan Opera regional auditions. Betty Packer died in October of 2008., Gift of Nancy Packer., Processed MSS 0628 10/2011 A. Toner, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Packer, Betty., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1870-2000
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, .25 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:759403069, pitt:US-QQS-mss628
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss628
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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