- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives
- Alex Robertson fonds
Alex Robertson fonds
fonds1853-1988P023
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- Held by
- Concordia University Library, Special Collections and Archives via Concordia University Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- Robertson, Alex
- Dates
- 1853-1988 (indexed as 1853–1988)
- Level
- fonds
- Extent
- 1,252 sound recordings 7.5 m of textual records 15 photographs
- Scope & content
- Between 1940 and 1986, Alex Robertson collected records. Most of the recordings in the fonds are 78 rpm's pressed in Montreal by Berliner and Compo: Berliner was the first Canadian company to produce records, and Compo was the first to record Canadian Black musicians. The fonds contains a large number of sound recordings that have never had commercial or widespread distribution. The fonds includes about 3,000 pieces of sheet music of various genres, dating from ca 1885 to 1970; about 1,000 pieces have Canadian content. The fonds includes numerous catalogues and promotional pamphlets from record and sheet-music publishing companies, dealers, clubs, and radio stations. Also included are books annotated by Alex Robertson in the course of his disco-graphical research. Alex Robertson's research materials on record labels and series, as well as on Montreal musical activity between 1913 and 1970 are included in the fonds. His extensive correspondence and related newsletters are included. The fonds includes photographs of Alex Robertson with his family; there is also a photograph of Alex Robertson with jazz author George Martin, and several of a reception held in his honor in the Concordia University Archives reading room in 1988. The fonds is organized into the following series: P0023/A Correspondence P0023/B Research on record labels and series P0023/C Research on Montreal music activity P0023/D Photographs
- Location
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- Subjects
- Jazz
- Genre / form
- Textual record; Graphic material; Sound recording
- Access & use
- Reproduction for scholarly purposes is permitted in most cases. Use of material in a publication may only be done with permission of the copyright owner.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-15T16:47:14Z · source datestamp n/a · ead