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By Carol Berthold, Nolan Vallier, Lindsay Musil, and Jonas Kromer Yela
Collection Overview
Title: Anna Fay Herron Bush Papers, 1847-2019
ID: 12/9/158
Primary Creator: Anna Fay Herron Bush (1921-2016)
Extent: 14.25 cubic feet
Arrangement:
The materials are organized in seven series: Series 1, Education Materials and Professional Correspondence, 1890-1999; Series 2, Personal Papers, 1924-1961; Series 3, Bohumir Kryl Orchestra Correspondence and Digital Photographs, ca. 1945-1947; Series 4, Church Choir Library Scores and Flyers, 1895-1996; Series 5, Sheet Music Collection, 1895-1963; Series 6, Musical Instruments; and Series 7, Sarah Bush Randolf Personal and Instructional Materials. Series 2 contains two sub-series: Sub-series 1, Personal and Family Papers and Sub-series 2, College Education Materials and Music Study Scores. Series 5 is split into two sub-series: Sub-series 1, Original Acquisitions; and Subseries 2: Sheet Music Collection Additions.
Since there was no original order for the materials, order was imposed by the archivist and became more defined as more materials were acquired. Series 1 and Series 2 are arranged chronologically, with the exception of the music study scores in Sub-Series 2, which have been arranged alphabetically by score type and title of composition. Series 3 has been arranged alphabetically by subject, person, and location. Series 4 and 5 have been arranged alphabetically by title of composition. Series 7 is arranged chronologically.
Date Acquired: 08/10/2017. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Kryl, Bohumir, 1875-1961, Music - Instruction and study, Musical Instrument Makers, Music teachers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of music instrument catalogs; lists of sheet music for schools and bands; teacher's instructional notes, music programs, newsletters, and correspondence documenting Anna Fay Herron Bush's career as a public school music teacher in rural southern Illinois (ca. 1950s-1970s) and performance career as an oboist in the Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra in 1945; and photographs, concert programs, correspondence, certificates, newspapers, music books and journals, documenting Herron's daughter Sarah's career working with the Selmaville Ambassadors and Music Department. Of particular interest are a series of postcards and photos describing her time spent touring with the Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra, including postcards describing her lessons with oboist Frances Napolilli, funded by Kryl.
Biographical Note
Anna Fay Herron Bush was born in Windsor, IL on September 12, 1921. Her father and mother were both school teachers. She attended high school in Windsor, IL and graduated in 1939. She received a teaching certificate from Eastern Illinois in 1946, a Bachelors of Music degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1947, and a Master of Science in Education (Administration) degree from Eastern Illinois University in 1971. She taught for over 33 years in grade and high schools in Clay, Jasper, Crawford and Clark Counties in Illinois. Before she was married, Anna Fay Herron played professionally with Bohumir Kyrl's Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago on the orchestra's 1945 tour. After the tour, she became a member of several national music and education associations. As an active church choir director, she led worship activites at her local church in Oblong, Illinois as well as other church choirs near Effingham, Illinois. Anna Fay Herron Bush passed away on March 31, 2016.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Accruals:
Additional accruals were made on July 24, 2018; September 1, 2018; June 6, 2019; July 22, 2019; July 7, 2023; October 25, 2023; and July 12, 2024..
Acquisition Source:
Sarah Randolph, Joliet, Illinois
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Education Materials and Professional Correspondence, 1890-1999],
[
Series 2: Personal Papers and Objects, 1879-1993],
[Series 3: Bohumir Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra Correspondence, Ephemera, Photographs, 1943-1947],
[
Series 4: Church Choir Library Scores and Flyers, 1895-1996],
[
Series 5: Sheet Music Collection, 1863-1963],
[
Series 6: Musical Instruments, undated],
[
Series 7: Sarah Bush Randolf Personal and Instructional Materials, 1973-2019],
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All]
- Series 3: Bohumir Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra Correspondence, Ephemera, Photographs, 1943-1947
- Consists of postcards addressed to her mother, advertising correspondence, programs, newsclippings, travel maps, receipts, concert ephemera, and digitized photographs documenting Herron Bush's time spent playing professionally in the Bohumir Kyrl's Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago and arranged chronologically.
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Postcards and Photocopies of Postcards, August 28 - November 18, 1945
- Folder 2: Bohumir Kryl Correspondence and Programs, 1945-1947
- Box 14
- Folder 13: "From Little Bohemia Came Bohumir Kryl" by Curtis Larkin (p. 12-14, 20) The School Musician, 1945
- Folder 14: Kryl Women's Symphony Concert Programs, 1945
- Folder 15: Kryl Women's Symphony News Clippings, 1945
- Folder 16: Kryl Women's Symphony Travel Correspondence, 1945
- Folder 17: Personal Concert Programs and Religious Service Programs Collected on Tour, 1945
- Folder 18: Placemats, Business Cards, and Tea Bag Tags Collected on Tour, 1945
- Note: Folder contains an inner folder marked Folder 18B containing loose Tea Bag Tags.
- Folder 19: Receipts, Budgets, and Pay Stubs, 1945
- Folder 20: Travel Maps with Annotations, 1945
- Box 15
- Folder 2: Kryl Women's Symphony Newspaper Articles, October 1945
- Folder 3: Kryl Women's Symphony Newspaper Articles, November 1945
- Box 16
- Item 1: Kryl Women's Symphony Hair Barrette, ca. 1945
- Box 17
- Folder 1: Tour Photographs - Photographs of Individual Band Members, 1945
- Item 1: Doris Adams (Trumpet), ca. 1940
- back reads: "To Anna Fay - a great kid & a swell sport! In memory of our wonderful times on the tour. Deepest regard, Doris, Kryl
- Item 2: Doris Adams, 1945
- Item 3: Doris Adams, 1945
- Item 4: Helen Apple, 1945
- Item 5: Ruth Baneth (Violin), in Cincinnati, army bus in rear, 1945
- Item 6: Martha Chilcote (Soprano), 1945
- Item 7: Marjorie Davis (Viola), from Springfield, Ohio. Kryl bus in rear, taken at Partkersburg, W. Va., 1945
- Item 8: Marjorie Davis, taken at Parkersburg, W. Va, 1945
- Item 9: Marjorie Davis, 1945
- Item 10: Esther Fink (Viola), from Chicago, showing army bus in rear, 1945
- Item 11: Esther Fink, 1945
- Item 12: Esther Fink, 1945
- Item 13: Esther Fink, 1945
- Item 14: Esther Fink, 1945
- Item 15: Esther Fink, 1945
- Item 16: Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 17: Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 18: Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 19: Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 20: Bernice Fry, I.S.N.U, Normal, IL, 1945
- Item 21: Maxine Fuson (Cello), 1945
- Item 22: Maxine Fuson, in front of tour bus, 1945
- Item 23: Maxine Fuson, 1945
- Item 24: Shirley Gloger (French Horn), from Cleveland, Ohio, 1945
- Item 25: Shirley Gloger, 1945
- Item 26: Shirley Gloger, 1945
- Item 27: Anna Fay Herron (Oboe), 1945
- Item 28: Anna Fay Herron, 1945
- Item 29: Anna Fay Herron at Herman Pirchner's Alpine Village Theatre Restaurant, Cleveland, Ohio, 1945
- Item 30: Marian Kienholz (Violin), 1945
- Also played in the Hormel Girls Marching Band.
- Item 31: Marian Kienholz, 1945
- Item 32: Helen Isabelle Lloyd (Violin), 1945
- Item 33: Elaine Lear, 1945
- Item 34: Lois Jane MacLennan, 1945
- Item 35: Lois Jane MacLennan, 1945
- Item 36: Marjorie McClain (Viola), 1945
- Item 37: Marjorie McClain, 1945
- Item 38: Marjorie McClain, 1945
- Item 39: Marjorie McClain, 1945
- Item 40: Marjorie McClain, 1945
- Item 41: Russell "Russ" Orice Pugh (Clarinet), from Waukegan, IL, 1945
- Item 42: ? Reifel (Trumpet), 1945
- Item 43: Ollie Rudibaugh (String Bass), from Lisbon, OH, 1945
- Item 44: Ollie Rudibaugh, at the picnic down the hill, 1945
- Item 45: Unidentified man, 1945
- Item 46: Unidentified woman, 1945
- Item 47: Unidentified woman, 1945
- Item 48: Unidentified woman, 1945
- Item 49: Unidentified woman, 1945
- Item 50: Unidentified woman, 1945
- Folder 2: Tour Photographs - Images of Tour Bus and Group Photos, 1945
- Item 1: Doris Adam, Janet, Ollie Rudibaugh, Wanda Rudibaugh, Marjorie McClain, Linda, at Lisbon, OH, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 2: Charter Bus, 1945
- Item 3: Charter Bus, in Shaker Heights at Johnson's Eating Place, 1945
- Item 4: Charter Bus, taken in Newark, Ohio, 1945
- Item 5: Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Davis, Springfield, Ohio, ca. 1940s
- Digital copy only.
- Item 6: Maxine Fuson, Marjorie Davis, Esther Fink, Elaine Lear, and Bob Hurd, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 7: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Digtial copy only. Front Row: Martha Chilcote, Donna Moran, Louis Jane McLennan, Marjorie McClain, Audrey Herold, Donna Frank, Marian Keinholz, Esther Fink, Margaret Meyer, Clare Wolff, Ollie Rudibaugh, ? Riefel, Helen Apple, Ruth Baneth, Doris Adam, Shirley Gloger, Beth Bierman, Muriel Miller, Helen Isabelle Lloyd; In Bus Window: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, Joan Harrison
- Item 8: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 9: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 10: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 11: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 12: Group Photo in Front of Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 13: Group of Women in front of Barker Hall (Michigan City, IN), 1945
- Digital copy only. Back row: Betty Bierman, Hazel Johnson, Ruth Baneth (Cincinnati), Donna Moran (Sioux Falls, SD), Russ Pugh (Waukegan). 2nd row: Marjorie McClain (Joliet IL), Muriel Miller (LaCrosse, WI), Joan Harrison (Peru, IN), Elaine Lear (Gallipolis, OH). Front row: Shirley Gloger (Cleveland, OH), Robert Hurd (Waukegan), Esther Funk (Chicago), Marian Kienholz (Fargo, ND)
- Item 14: Group of unidentified women, walking, 1945
- Item 15: Anna Fay Herron, Marjorie McClain, Marjorie Davis, and Maxine Fuson at Herman Pirchner's Alpine Village Theatre Restaurant, Cleveland, Ohio, 1945
- Item 16: Anna Fay Herron, on pony at Smalley's in Greenfield, Ohio, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 17: Anna Fay Herron and Unidentified Woman, walking to Kryl Bus, 1945
- Item 18: Anna Fay Herron and ? Riefel, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 19: Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, in front of houses, 1945
- Item 20: Kryl Symphony Orchestra, Instrument Truck, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 21: Elaine Lear (Clarinet), from Gallipolis, OH; Bob Hurd (Oboe), from Waukegan IL; and Joan Harrison (Flute), from Peru, IN, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 22: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Joan Harrison, 1945
- Item 23: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Joan Harrison, 1945
- Item 24: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Joan Harrison, 1945
- Item 25: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Joan Harrison, 1945
- Item 26: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Martha Chilcote, 1945
- Item 27: Helen Lloyd, in car, 1945
- Item 28: Marjorie McLain, Shirley Gloger, and Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 29: Marjorie McLain, Shirley Gloger, and Donna Frank, 1945
- Item 30: Margaret Meyer, Clare Wolff (Harp), Esther Fink, Martha Chilcote, Bob Hurd (Oboe), Audrey Herold, and Ollie Rudibaugh, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 31: Margaret Meyer, Clare Wolff, Esther Fink, Martha Chilcote, Bob Hurd, Audrey Herold, and Ollie Rudibaugh, from the windows of the Kryl Symphony Orchestra Bus, 1945
- Item 32: Picnic at Zanesville, Ohio, 1945
- Digital copy only
- Item 33: Picnic at Zanesville, OH (Bohumir Kryl seated), 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 34: Ollie Rudibaugh and Audrey Herold (Timpani) from Hamilton, OH, 1945
- Item 35: Wanda Rudibaugh, Doris Adam, Ollie Rudibaugh, and Linda, at Lisbon, OH, 1945
- Digital copy only.
- Item 36: Two unidentified women, 1945
- Item 37: Unidentified Woman, Maxine Fuson, and Marjorie McClain, 1945
- Folder 3: Tour Photographs - Images of Places, 1945
- Item 1: 2nd Presby Church (Bloomington, IL), 1945
- Item 2: Presser Hall, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), 1945
- Item 3: Presser Hall, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), 1945
- Item 4: S.A.I. Sorority House, (Bloomington, IL), 1945
- Item 5: Ester Fink in front of Ottawa Auditorium (Ottawa, IL), 1945
- Item 6: Ottawa Auditorium (Ottowa, IL), 1945
- Item 7: Barker Hall (Michigan City, IN), 1945
- Item 8: Henry Clay Hotel (Ashland, KY), 1945
- Item 9: Henry Clay Hotel (Ashland, KY), 1945
- Item 10: Fordson High School (Dearborn, MI), 1945
- Item 11: Fordson High School (Dearborn, MI), 1945
- Item 12: St. Charles Seminary (Carthagena, OH), 1945
- Item 13: St. Charles Seminary (Carthagena, OH), 1945
- Item 14: St. Charles Seminary (Carthagena, OH), 1945
- Item 15: St. Charles Seminary (Carthagena, OH), 1945
- Item 16: St. Charles Seminary, interior (Carthegena, OH), 1945
- Item 17: Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 18: Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 19: Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 20: Cleveland Art Museum, from the front steps (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 21: Fountain in front of Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 22: Fountain in front of Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 23: Statue of The Thinker, Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 24: Statue of the Thinker, Cleveland Art Museum (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 25: Severance Hall (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 26: Severance Hall (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 27: Severance Hall (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 28: Severance Hall (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 29: Unidentified building near Severance Hall (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 30: Rockefeller Lagoon (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 31: Rockefeller Lagoon (Cleveland, OH), 1945
- Item 32: Steamboat crash monument (Gallipolis, OH), 1945
- Item 33: Near Steamboat Crash Monument (Gallipolis, OH), 1945
- Item 34: Near Steamboat Crash Monument (Gallipolis, OH), 1945
- Item 35: Near Steamboat Crash Monument (Gallipolis, OH), 1945
- Item 36: Picnic, from a bluff (Zanesville, OH), 1945
- Item 37: Hills in Southern Ohio, taken from the bus (OH), 1945
- Item 38: Unidentified Building (Parkersburg, WV), 1945
- Item 39: Boat on unidentified body of water, 1945
- Item 40: Boat on unidentified body of water, 1945
- Item 41: Boat on unidentified body of water, unidentified woman in forground, 1945
- Item 42: Unidentified bridge, 1945
- Item 43: Unidentified bridge, 1945
- Item 44: Unidentified building, 1945
- Item 45: Unidentified church, 1945
- Item 46: Unidentified field and body of water, 1945
- Item 47: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 48: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 49: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 50: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 51: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 52: Unidentified town, 1945
- Item 53: Unidentified town, 1945
- Folder 4: Publicity Photographs and Head Shots, 1938-1945
- Item 1: Martha Chilcote (Coloratura Soprano), ca. 1940s
- Item 2: Maxine Fuson (Cello), Christmas Card, ca. 1940s
- Item 3: Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra, ca. 1944
- Item 4: Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, 1945
- Signed "Carl B. Scheig, to a swell group of girls"
- Item 5: Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra, Carl Scheig (Guest Conductor), 1945
- Item 6: Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra, Bohumir Kryl conducting, 1945
- Item 7: Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra, Bohumir Kryl conducting, 1945
- Signed by Bohumir Kryl
- Item 8: Helen Isabelle Lloyd (Concertmistress and Violin Soloist), ca. 1940s
- Item 9: Clare Wolff (Harp Soloist), 1945
- Item 10: Harold Turner (Organ Soloist), 1938-1939
- Back reads: St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church organ, Missoula, MT
- Item 11: Harold Turner, ca. 1940s
- back reads: Harold Turner, 1st Methodist Church, Vesper Sunday (organ in First Presbyterian Church, Missoula, MT. Recital being played in memorial program to Dr. Jackson, pastor of the church)
- Box 26
- Folder 22: Photographs, ca. 1940s
- Item 1: Picnic at Zanesville, OH with Bohumir Kryl, ca. 1940s
- Item 2: Anna Fay on a pony in Greenfield, OH, ca. 1940s
- Item 3: Ollie Rudibaugh and Anna Fay Herron, ca. 1940s
- Item 4: The Kryl instrument truck, ca. 1940s
- Item 5: Esther Fink, Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, Maxine Fuson, and Marjorie Davis with the tour bus, ca. 1940s
- Item 6: Picnic at Zanesville, OH, ca. 1940s
- Item 7: Unidentified building with turret, ca. 1940s
- Item 8: Group photo in front of tour bus, ca. 1940s
- Item 9: Wanda Rudibaugh, Doris Adam, Ollie Rudibaugh, Linda, at Lisbon, OH, ca. 1940s
- Item 10: Group photo at Barker Hall, Michigan City, IN, ca. 1940s
- Item 11: Margaret Meyer, Clare Wolff, Esther Fink, Martha Chilcote, Bob Hurd, Audrey Herold, and Ollie Rudibaugh in the tour bus, ca. 1940s
- Item 12: Doris Adam, Janet, Ollie Rudibaugh, Wanda Rudibaugh, Marjorie McClain, Linda, at Libson, OH, ca. 1940s
- Item 13: Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Davis, Springfield, OH, ca. 1940s
- Item 14: Elaine Lear, Bob Hurd, and Joan Harrison, ca. 1940s
- Folder 23: Draft of leave of absence request letter to school board, ca. 1945
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Education Materials and Professional Correspondence, 1890-1999],
[
Series 2: Personal Papers and Objects, 1879-1993],
[Series 3: Bohumir Kryl Women's Symphony Orchestra Correspondence, Ephemera, Photographs, 1943-1947],
[
Series 4: Church Choir Library Scores and Flyers, 1895-1996],
[
Series 5: Sheet Music Collection, 1863-1963],
[
Series 6: Musical Instruments, undated],
[
Series 7: Sarah Bush Randolf Personal and Instructional Materials, 1973-2019],
[
All]