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Finding aid created by: Steffi Chappell and Meg Mason
Date: 2014
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| September 2024 | Media processed, inventory updated (VSOM) |
Summary |
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| Creator: | Lansing, Charlotte. |
| Title: | Charlotte Lansing Papers |
| Dates: | 1924-1984 |
| Size: | 3.5 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Materials documenting Lansing’s personal and professional life |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Charlotte Lansing Snyder (1899-1983) was born in Brainard, New York, and spent her childhood and adolescence in Central New York. She attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1920 with her bachelor’s degree in music from the College of Fine Arts. While a student at Syracuse, she was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, the Glee Club, the Consumer’s League, and the Class Executive Committee for two years. Ten years after her graduation, in 1930, she married Edward Hillyer Mackenzie.
Under the stage name of Charlotte Lansing she had a successful career in theater, performing in musical comedies and light operas. She traveled across the country and sang for the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company, the Chicago Civic Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera. Her performances in productions such as Blossom Time and My Maryland in 1938 and 1939 were well received by critics and audiences alike. She also performed on Broadway multiple times, in productions of Desert Song, New Moon, Showboat, and East Wind. Along with her stage performances, Lansing also sang on a weekly NBC radio program every Sunday afternoon in the 1930s.
After her acting career, Lansing worked as a cotton broker. She was the first woman to register with the New York Cotton Exchange, and she worked for Hirsch & Co., and then later for Carl M. Moeb, Rhoades & Co.
The Charlotte Lansing Papers document aspects of Lansing’s personal and professional life. Highlights of the collection include correspondence, mainly consisting of letters written to her from her husband; a large number of newspaper clippings that report on theatrical productions in which Lansing performed; photographs, playbills and programs from her performances; and three scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs. The collection also includes several audio recordings, though only two appear to contain recordings of performances by Lansing.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Access to audiovisual material requires advance notice to produce a use copy.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
In addition to these papers, the Syracuse University Archives holds a clippings file and a portrait file on Charlotte Lansing.
Names
Lansing, Charlotte.
Syracuse University -- Alumni and alumnae.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Performing arts.
Actresses.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Clippings (information artifacts)
Flexi discs.
Lacquer discs.
Sound recordings.
Correspondence.
Membership cards.
Photographs.
Playbills.
Press releases.
Scrapbooks.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Charlotte Lansing Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Transferred from the Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center in 2005.
Processing Information
The materials have been placed in acid-free folders and boxes.
The materials are arranged in alphabetical order.
Papers
| Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Articles and press releases 1938, 1942, 1951 | ||||||||||
| Audio Recordings | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Alexander Gray Radio [disc 1 of 2] undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_001 ) | ||||||||||
| Off air recording of Alexander Gray short recital from assorted musicals. Side 1: 1. (Violet?), Carrie Jacobs Bond; 2. Figaro; 3. Water boy; 4. Olde England my true love; 5. (?); 6. None but the lonely heart; Side 2: 1. Something about a soldier; 2. Sign off of Broadway; 3. With a song in my heart: 4. One moment alone; 5. Sometimes in my dreams. Note on sleeve "Chrysler Radio [?], 1st season CBS". | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Alexander Gray Radio [disc 2 of 2] undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_002 ) | ||||||||||
| Off air recording of Alexander Gray short recital from assorted musicals. Recording of the Chrysler Air Show: Side 3: 1. Song of the Beachcomber (Son of the sun); 2. The glory boat; 3. Kashmiri song (Pale hands I loved); 4. Lonesome road; Side 4: 1. Riff song; 2. Zwei herzen; 3. Cold war river; 4. Texas ranger from Rio Rita; 5. Cossack love song (from Song of the flame); 6. Look for the silver lining. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | National Geographic: Sounds of the space age, from Sputnik to lunar landing - narrated by Col. Frank Borman USAF Astronaut, soundsheet insert produced as page 750 A-B in the December 1969 National Geographic Magazine (Flexi Disc) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_007 ) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | National Geographic: The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, London, January 30, 1965 with excerpts from his speeches - narrated by David Brinkley, soundsheet insert produced as page 198 A-B in the August 1965 National Geographic Magazine (Flexi Disc) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_006 ) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | RCA Victor home recording record [disc 1 of 3] 08/11/1932 - note on sleeve "these records are no good without the special RCA Victor home recording needle, but the two inserts between them will someday be collectibles" (Vinyl record) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_003 ) | ||||||||||
| Side 1: Auf wiedersehen; Side 2: Sleep my baby, Charlotte Lansing, singer. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | RCA Victor home recording record [disc 2 of 3] 08/11/1932 - note on sleeve "these records are no good without the special RCA Victor home recording needle, but the two inserts between them will someday be collectibles" (Vinyl record) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_004 ) | ||||||||||
| Side 1: La Father [?] ; Side 2: La [?] colibri. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | RCA Victor home recording record [disc 3 of 3] 08/11/1932 - note on sleeve "these records are no good without the special RCA Victor home recording needle, but the two inserts between them will someday be collectibles"; no tracks listed on label (Vinyl record) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_005 ) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | WJZ: Charlotte Lansing 12/29/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: sua_lansing_c_008 ) | ||||||||||
| NBC radio broadcast: Side 1: On wings of song (Felix Mendelssohn); Dawn (Pearl Curran), Charlotte Lansing, soprano; Al Reiser, Lee Reiser, piano; Side 2: One moment alone (Jerome Kern), Charlotte Lansing, soprano; Al Reiser, Lee Reiser, piano. | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Biographical information 1969 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence 1938, 1968, 1984, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Daughters of the American Revolution application for membership 1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Entertainment and theater magazines 1928, 1933, 1937-1939, 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Membership cards 1939, 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Newspaper clippings 1927, 1930-1933, 1938-1942, 1954, undated | ||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lansing, Charlotte - Personal 1934-1935, 1937-1939, 1955, undated | ||||||||||
| Lansing, Charlotte - Publicity | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | General 1924-1934, 1938-1939 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Autographed 1931, undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Mackenzie, Edward Hillyer 1947, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Playbills and programs 1930, 1938-1939 1942, 1945-1946 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2 | Scrapbooks 1929-1933 (3 scrapbooks) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Western Union telegrams 1937-1938, 1942 | ||||||||||