Allentown Band

Scope and Contents The Allentown Band and Muhlenberg College, longtime Lehigh Valley institutions and partners, embarked on a collaboration to gather members’ oral histories. The partners creating this collection included members of the Band, students, and faculty in an integrative learning course involving archival science and documentary fieldwork. The course resulted in an ongoing digital scholarship project site.The collection consists of nine oral histories that speak to the traditions and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of fifteen binders has served the Band in a reference and preservation capacity. Some are dedicated to the Band's three longest-serving directors, Martin Klingler, Bert Meyers, and Ron Demkee. Others detail member-specific information, including member lists, instrument inventories, and death notices.The binders include newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs, published accounts of the Band and its history, and photographs.

Scope and Contents Approximately 175 of these photographs are framed and hanging in the headquarters of the Allentown Band at 1914 Greenleaf St, Allentown, PA 18104. The digital files are stored at Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College. In 2019, the photographs were digitized thanks to a grant from the Council of Independent Colleges. The collection is made available on Artstor's Public Collections interface. As of spring 2020, approximately 500 additional photos, stored in binders and also digitized in...

Scope and Contents Collection contains programs (including many duplicates) spanning the 19th through the 21st centuries, arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents This collection contains eight twentieth-century scrapbooks compiled by members of the Allentown Band. They contain newspaper clippings, programs, letters, photographs, and other ephemera relating to performances, guest performers, and conductors, and provide a window into the role the Band played in the local and national music scene.

Scope and Contents This collection of fifteen binders has served the Band in a reference and preservation capacity. Some are dedicated to the Band's three longest-serving directors, Martin Klingler, Bert Meyers, and Ron Demkee. Others detail member-specific information, including member lists, instrument inventories, and death notices.The binders include newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs, published accounts of the Band and its history, and photographs.

Scope and Contents These five mid-twentieth-century, disbound scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, brochure clippings, and concert program clippings about arts, culture, and style pertaining to Allentown, New York, and Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains Albertus Meyers’s correspondence during his time as conductor of the Allentown Band (1926-1976). The bulk of the collection contains letters, both hand-written and typed, either written by or received by Meyers between 1925 and 1978. The collection includes correspondence from such notable individuals as Helen Sousa Abert, Bob Hoe, Paul E. Bierley, Lucien Cailliet, Merle Evans, and Skitch Henderson. Subjects referenced in the collection include John Philip Sousa,...

Scope and Contents These mid-twentieth-century, unbound scrapbooks, which are organized mostly in reverse chronological order, primarily contains Call-Chronicle and Morning Call newspaper clippings about the Allentown Band.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection of fifteen binders has served the Band in a reference and preservation capacity. Some are dedicated to the Band's three longest-serving directors, Martin Klingler, Bert Meyers, and Ron Demkee. Others detail member-specific information, including member lists, instrument inventories, and death notices.The binders include newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs, published accounts of the Band and its history, and photographs.