Performing Arts Collection Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) now online. Over 20,000 recording sessions of the Victor Talking Machine Company from 1900-1915 are documented in the initital launch of the EDVR. Digital Collection with 7,000 Cylinder Recordings Online. Listen to nearly 7,000 of the library's cylinder recordings. Mildred Couper Scores online. View scores to three of Couper's quarter-tone compositions housed in Special Collections. Lists of collections, indexes and links to finding aids Historical sound recordings in the Performing Arts Collection Access to historical sound recordings in the Performing Arts Collection Preservation of Sound Recordings New additions to the collections and growth of the collections The Performing Arts Collection includes recordings, manuscripts, photographs, and artwork that documents and supports research on local, national, and international performing arts. The collections are located in the Special Collections Department on the third floor of Davidson Library. Significant manuscript holdings include the papers of film composer Bernard Herrmann, singer Lotte Lehmann, actress Judith Anderson and composer Peter Racine Fricker. The Toole-Stott Circus Collection contains primary source material and monographs on the circus and the Lobero Theatre Papers are the organizational records of the oldest theater in Southern California. The sound archives consists of several large collections containing approximately 250,000 sound recordings including cylinders, 78s and LPs. The Special Collections department has listening and viewing facilities as well as a state of the art laboratory for playback and preservation copying of audio, video and film. A full time archivist oversees management of the collections. Significant performing arts research materials are also in the collections of CEMA, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Graphic: Detail from the cover of the 1914 Catalog Edison Diamond Disc Recordings in the Todd Collection. Page author: David Seubert. Last modified: 06/06/08 10:36:06 Direct questions or comments about this page to the author or to the Web Administrator. This is an official University of California, Santa Barbara Library web page.