Container List
Series I. Freedman family, onetime residents of Imperial Court Hotel (307 West 79th
Street, Manhattan), 1912–1948
Biographical noteHelen (Fox) Freedman (1895–1969), widow of Samuel Stanley Freedman (d. 1936) was the mother of William Marvin "Bud" Freedman (1923–2006) and Nancy Ruth Freedman (1928– ). William was a member of the Black Widow Night Fighter Squadron during World War II. Nancy sang professionally, most notably with the Skitch Henderson Orchestra, under the name "Nancy Reed." The family—which sometimes also used the shortened surname "Reed"—lived at various times in Miami Beach, Florida; Akron, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and New York City. Helen often accompanied Nancy as chaperone to the cities where she was performing. Documents in the collection indicate they were residents of the Imperial Court Hotel (307 West 79th Street) on Manhattan's Upper West Side during the 1940s. |
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Subseries I.A. Helen (Fox) Freedman (1895–1969), 1912–1948
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Bills, correspondence, receipts, etc. |
1943–1948 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company statements and canceled checks
Scope and ContentsStatements and checks for July–August 1945 and September 1947 through January 1948. |
1945–1948 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | Address book |
[1946–1947?] | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | Photographs
Scope and ContentsMost of these photographs were found scattered throughout the collection. It is unclear if they all stem from the Freedman / Reed family (William "Bud" and Nancy are recognizable in some shots), or if they belong to other residents of 307 West 79th Street, Manhattan (see Series II). |
1912–1940s | |
Subseries I.B. William Marvin "Bud" Freedman (1923–2006), 1940–1947
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence, clippings, college grades |
1940, 1943–1947 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | "Life in the Service" Record Book [blank] |
1942 | |
Subseries I.C. Nancy Ruth Freedman / Nancy Reed (1928– ), 1930–1948
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Sheet music & manuscripts
Scope and Contents• "Always in My Heart" (1942) [incomplete score] |
1930–1947 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | Bills, correspondence, ephemera, receipts |
1938–1948, undated | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | Diary
Scope and Contents"Nancy Ruth Freedman / 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. / Miami Beach / Florida / Ida M. Fisher Jr. Hi." With list of addresses. |
1940 January 1-August 28 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | Autograph book
Scope and Contents"This auto-graph book / belongs to / Nancy Freedman / 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. / Miami Beach, Florida / January 6, 1940." Signed by family, friends, and some celebrities, such as singer and actress Dixie Dunbar (1919–1991) and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (1903–1978). With tipped in photographs and ephemera. |
1940 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | Yearbook, Miami Beach Senior High School (Miami Beach, Fla.)
Scope and Contents1942 edition of the Typhoon, with many autographs to Nancy Freedman. |
1942 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | Report cards, Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
1943–1944 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | Newspaper, Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Scope and ContentsThree issues of The Foreword: |
1943–1945 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | Newspaper & periodical clippings |
1943–1948, undated | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | Yearbook, Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Scope and ContentsWith many autographs to Nancy Freedman, and tipped in photographs, notes, and ephemera. |
1944 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | Classmate photographs (5), Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Scope and ContentsEach inscribed to Nancy Freedman. |
1945 February-March | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | Diploma and commencement ephemera, Taylor Allderdice High School (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Scope and ContentsContains program for "Thirty-First Commencement, Taylor Allderdice High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (June 13-14, 1945), admission ticket (June 14, 1945), and Nancy Freedman's diploma (June 22, 1945). |
1945 June | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | Julliard School of Music Summer School
Scope and ContentsIncludes course catalog, Nancy Freedman's class schedule and music theory exercise book. |
1945 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | Trade publications
Scope and Contents• Song Parade, vol. 4, no. 5 (April 1945) |
1945, 1947 | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | Dorothy Shay photographs (2)
Scope and ContentsTwo photographs of American comedic recording artist Dorothy Shay (1921–1978), inscribed to Nancy. Shay appeared on the same bill with Nancy Reed (singing with the Skitch Henderson Orchestra) in the Boulevard Room, Stevens Hotel, Chicago. See the clipping from Variety, January 14, 1948, in Box 2, Folder 7. |
[1948] | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | "Pryde and Day" photograph
Scope and ContentsPhotograph of juggling team Pryde and Day inscribed to Helen and Nancy. They appeared on the same bill with Nancy Reed (singing with the Skitch Henderson Orchestra) in the Boulevard Room, Stevens Hotel, Chicago. See the clipping from Variety, January 14, 1948, in Box 2, Folder 7. |
[1948] | |
| Offsite-Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | Nancy Reed publicity photographs |
undated | |
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