The Making of a Patron

• Elizabeth Penn Sprague at age seventeen, 1882. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge on her wedding day, November 21, 1891. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)
• Special Concert by Illinois Amateurs in the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbia Exposition. Program, July 1, 1893.Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
• Amy Beach to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, November 17, 1902. Holograph letter. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00, 006.01.00)
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge, and Albert Sprague Coolidge, 1901. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Scheme of subject motives for Browning Song Cycle. Holograph manuscript, 1901. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra certificate of thanks to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, 1915. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)

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The Berkshire Festivals

• Hugo Kortschak to Elizabeth Coolidge May 10, 1916. Holograph letter. Page 2 - Page 3.Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00)
• Elizabeth Coolidge to Hugo Kortschak, May 13, 1916. Typewritten letter. Page 2 - Page 3. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)
• The Berkshire String Quartet. Photograph, ca. 1916. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)

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A Capital Connection

• Ernest Bloch. Suite for Viola and Piano. Holograph manuscript, 1919. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00, 015.01.00)
• Carl Engel to Elizabeth Coolidge, October 5, 1922. Holograph letter. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (016.01.00)
• Carl Engel and Ernest Bloch. Photograph, ca. 1923. Eric Johnson Collection of Ernest Bloch Photographs, Music Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)

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From the Berkshire Hills to Capitol Hill

• The 1919 Berkshire Prize Jury. (left to right) Louis Bailly, Harold Bauer, Richard Aldrich, Frederick A. Stock, Elizabeth Coolidge, Carlos Salzédo (competition accompanist), Georges Longy, and Rubin Goldmark. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)
• Program of the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, 1919. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)
• Three Recitals of Chamber Music in the auditorium of The Freer Gallery of Art. Program, 1924. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00, 019.00.00)
• White House reception invitation, February 9, 1924. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00)
• Joint Resolution, S. J. Res. 152, December 18, 1924. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
• Cancelled check, Elizabeth Coolidge to Herbert Putnam, November 12, 1924.Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00)
• The Coolidge auditorium under construction, 1925. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)

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The Eagle Sings

• Carl Engel. Mock-up program for first Coolidge Foundation Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress, 1925. Holograph manuscript. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. (024.00.00)
• Carl Engel to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, August 14, 1926. Holograph letter. Page 2. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
• Igor Stravinsky. Apollon Musagète. Holograph piano score, 1927. Page 2. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00)
• Coolidge Festival of Chamber Music. Program, April 27, 1928. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
• Adolph Bolm as Apollo in Apollon Musagète. Photograph, 1928. Adolph Bolm Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Walter Koons, and the Manhattan String Quartet in an NBC recording studio. Photograph, ca. 1935. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
• Comments by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge on Library of Congress Chamber Music Hour, WJZ. Typed transcript, January 14, 1936. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (030.00.00)
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge recorded on October 29, 1944, at the Coolidge Auditorium and broadcast over radio station WTOP (CBS), Washington, D.C. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (030.02.00)

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Ballets for Martha

• Martha Graham to Elizabeth Coolidge, August 2, 1942. Letter. Page 2 | Page 3. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00)
• Festival Program with sketches by artist Prentiss Taylor, 1944. Prentiss Taylor Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00)
• Coolidge and Music Division chief Harold Spivacke. Photograph, ca. 1949. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
• Martha Graham and Coolidge after premiere of Appalachian Spring. Photograph, 1944. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
• Darius Milhaud. Jeux de Printemps. Holograph manuscript, 1944.Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (040.01.00)

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Cultural Ambassador

• Beethoven-Schoenberg cycle, four concerts by the Kolisch Quartet. Program, July 22, 23, 29, 30, 1937. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
• Pro Arte Quartet with Coolidge at Mills College. Program, February 18, 1938. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
• Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet no. 4, op. 37. Music manuscript, 1936. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
• Coolidge enjoying “motoring” with members of the Pro Arte Quartet, Alphonse Onnou, first violinist, on her left, and Germain Prévost, violist, on her right. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
• Program of Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial, 1939. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00)

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Composing History

• George Crumb. Ancient Voices of Children, 1970. Holograph manuscript. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (047.00.00)
• Festival program with autographs, 1970. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00)
• Béla Bartók. String Quartet No. 5, 1934. Holograph manuscript. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00)
• Béla Bartók to Elizabeth Coolidge, July 1, 1939. Holograph letter. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00)
• Samuel Barber. “At St. Patrick’s Purgatory” from Hermit Songs, 1953. Holograph manuscript. Coolidge Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
• Founder’s Day Concert Program with sketches by Prentiss Taylor of Leontyne Price and Samuel Barber premiering the composer’s Hermit Songs, October 30, 1953. Prentiss Taylor Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00)

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