Charles Sens Papers and Performing Arts Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Collection 72

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes music and memorabilia related to Charles Sens’ career as a performer in New Orleans and collected performing arts programs and ephemera primarily from New York, Boston, and Washington DC. Materials were collected and transferred to Special Collections & Archives by Bob Grosse.

Dates

Created: 1884-2002
Other: Majority of material found in 1950-2002
Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2003

Creator

Sens, Charles Lee (Family)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

Physical rights are retained by the J. Edgar & Louis S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright Laws.

Biographical or Historical Information

Charles Lee Sens Jr. was born in 1933 and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 1956 with a Bachelor of Music degree. Sens had a distinguished career as a singer, dancer, and composer before undertaking a second career as a librarian in the Music Division of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Sens died August 23, 2004, in Washington DC.

Note written by

Extent

4.00 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement Note

The programs were arranged by the creator. For the remainder of the collection, the arrangement scheme was imposed during processing

Source of Acquisition

Gross, Robert

Existence and Location of Originals

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Related Materials

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Other Descriptive Information

Charles Sens also left his large collection of opera recordings and many unique items which have been integrated into the circulating collection, as well as an endowment to enhance the collection over time, to the Monroe Library.