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Special Collections and Archives
LOUIE BELLSON
researched by Music Librarian Christopher Popa
The official repository of Louis Bellson materials is the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, with its "Louis [ sic ] Bellson Collection" which includes "Music manuscripts (scores & parts), printed music, photos, audio and video recordings, business papers, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, books."
Most of the items date from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Other memorabilia, such as the Project 3 album of Bellson shown below, is held by private collectors.
source:
Louis [ sic ] Bellson Collection, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.scdb.200033662/
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